Environmental Health

Person dropping a face mask into a trash can on the beach.

Environmental health refers to issues affected by one’s immediate environment, such as vermin, air-borne and insect-borne diseases, food poisoning, lead in homes and drinking water, lack of vaccination against childhood diseases, air and water pollution.

Basics

EPA Lead Exposure Fact Sheet
Lead Poisoning in Delaware Count y
Information for landlords and tenants
Extreme Heat is deadlier than Hurricanes

Current Status

Delaware County Division of Environmental Health
Asthma rates by census tract in Delaware County
New Developments in Sustainability and Environmental Health

Paths Forward

Delaware County Lead reduction program
Creating Healthy Indoor Air Quality in Schools (US EPA)
Federal Air monitoring investment could lower Southwestern PA Cancer