The clinical presentation of environmental health problems and the role of the pediatric provider. What do I do when I see children who might have an environmentally related illness?

The practice of environmental health is concerned with the protection of the community. There are a number of tools used for assessment of environmental hazards, but environmental health is most reliant on the use of risk assessment. Risk assessment is a set of tools used to assess hazards on a community level, based on human studies, ecological studies, or toxicity testing of animals.