<p>
	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}ENH_2.png" style="float: right;" />One doesn&rsquo;t usually think of medical and health issues as being the focus of a course at a biological field station, but Au Sable&rsquo;s Environmental Health breaks the mold. More than any other factor, a person&rsquo;s surrounding physical and biological environment will determine health parameters like physical well being, susceptibility to disease and life span, as well as many other health characteristics. Today perhaps not field in medical science is expanding as rapidly or as uniquely as that of environmental health as medical scientists begin to learn more about how the environment affects the rate of disease transmission (environmental epidemiology), provides resources for medicine and pharmaceuticals (environmental medicine) and affects the delivery of both private and government health agencies to deliver health services. No wonder the new version of MCAT will now contain a section devoted to questions related to environmental health.</p>
