IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Abstract

Environmental health practitioners need to be aware of the conjecture attached to globalization and the future health of community dwellers. This paper focused on globalisation and its impacts on environmental health as an aspect of public health. It discussed the role of the key international institutions such as World Bank, World Trade Organisation and World Health Organisation in ensuring environmental health. The impact of global trade policy on environmental health, global health inequalities and emerging environmental health risks and challenges for environmental health were also investigated. It was therefore recommended that environmental health practitioners should be concerned with the threats the global society posses to environmental health and therefore find means of curbing this menace.