Who are Sentinels of Eastern Shore Health?
SESH is a collective voice for positive solutions and inclusiveness in representation working towards healthy communities on the Lower Eastern Shore.
Our vision of a healthy community includes environmental health, public health, economic health and social health. We care about our schools, keeping our communities safe, ensuring clean air and water, promoting sustainable job creation, encouraging healthy food, and loving all of our neighbors.
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CAFO Moratorium
American Public Health Association Adopts Policy Statement Calling for a National Moratorium on New and Expanding Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
JUNE 25, 2020
Policy Brief
In light of the wide-ranging negative health and environmental impacts associated with Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), as well as serious social and environmental justice concerns, the American Public Health Association adopted a new policy resolution. The Precautionary Moratorium on New and Expanding CAFOs calls for federal, state and local governments, including public health agencies, to impose a national moratorium on new and expanding CAFOs until additional scientific data on the attendant risks to public health have been collected, uncertainties resolved, and 12 action steps outlined in the resolution have been taken.
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“Environmental health is the branch of public health that: focuses on the relationships between people and their environment; promotes human health and well-being; and fosters healthy and safe communities.”
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