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Environmental health is a branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment that may affect human health. It seeks to integrate and enhance traditional preventive and curative strategies with approaches informed by ecological science and biomedicine. The aim is to ensure a safe, healthy and resilient environment to support current and future generations. Attention to environmental health issues increases the awareness of the role and influence that the environment has on health. This includes understanding how exposure to environmental hazards, both natural and man made, affects health and well-being and how health can be improved by modifying the physical, chemical, biological, social and psychological environment.