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Linking Health to the Built Environment

Posted by: Nate Berg

8 April 2009 - 1:00pm

This video lecture calls on builders, architects and planners to work with the medical and scientific communities to better explore how the built environment affects public health.

Dr. Howard Frumkin, director, National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discusses how the built environment affects our health and presents new models for sustainable development.

Sustainable Communities "Creating Healthy Communities" from National Building Museum on Vimeo.

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Source: National Building Museum, April 7, 2009
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