"Learn more about how CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) protect and promote environmental health across the United States.
Your environment is everything around you—the air you breathe, the water you drink, the places where your food is grown or prepared, your workplace, and your home. When your environment is safe and healthy, you are more likely to stay healthy. But when your environment exposes you to dangerous events or harmful amounts of toxic substances, your health can be affected. In fact, 25% of all diseases worldwide are caused by something harmful in the environment.
How can my environment affect my health?
Here are some actual examples of the many ways your environment can affect your health.
- Your drinking water well is contaminated by benzene from industrial activities near your home.
- Your seven-year-old child suffers from severe asthma, and you don’t know how to help him.
- Your child’s school is contaminated by mercury found in a science lab.
- You are suffering from depression following a man-made disaster near your community.
e National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a sister agency to the CDC, are committed to keeping people safe from environmental hazards. Each agency works to:
- promote healthy environments,
- respond to natural and man-made disasters,
- support public health workers,
- educate communities, and
- provide scientific knowledge..."
Environmental health
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