Environmental Health - Frumkin, Howard (Hrsg.)
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This book provides a survey of the major issues in contemporary environmental and occupational health. Topics include environmental health hazards associated with human settlement, industrial activities, and agriculture and the food supply, including approaches to assessing, controlling, and preventing these hazards. Additionally, the book includes the topics of interest in environmental health, such as environmental epidemiology, risk assessment, radiation, agriculture and food safety, human uses and misuses of water, land, and air, the management of wastes created by humans. Also included…mehr

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This book provides a survey of the major issues in contemporary environmental and occupational health. Topics include environmental health hazards associated with human settlement, industrial activities, and agriculture and the food supply, including approaches to assessing, controlling, and preventing these hazards. Additionally, the book includes the topics of interest in environmental health, such as environmental epidemiology, risk assessment, radiation, agriculture and food safety, human uses and misuses of water, land, and air, the management of wastes created by humans. Also included are the technical foundations of environmental hazards, their impacts on public health, and the role of social, political, and regulatory factors in assessing, controlling, and preventing environmental hazards.

Environmental and Occupational Health provide a survey of the major issues in contemporary environmental and occupational health. Topics include environmental health hazards associated with human settlement, industrial activities, and agriculture and the food supply, including approaches to assessing, controlling, and preventing these hazards. Other areas covered are the topics of interest in environmental health, such as environmental epidemiology, risk assessment, radiation, agriculture and food safety, human uses and misuses of water, land, and air, the management of wastes created by humans. Also included are the technical foundations of environmental hazards, their impacts on public health, and the role of social, political, and regulatory factors in assessing, controlling, and preventing environmental hazards.

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PART I: METHODS AND PARADIGMS. 1. ECOLOGY AND HUMAN HEALTH (John Wegner, Ph.D.). 2. TOXICOLOGY (Jason R. Richardson, Ph.D. and Gary W. Miller, Ph.D.). 3. ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY (Kyle Steenland, Ph.D. and Christine Moe, Ph.D.). 4. EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT, INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (P. Barry Ryan, Ph.D.). 5. ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH (Daniel Stokols, Ph.D. and Chip Clitheroe, Ph.D.). 6. GENOMICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH (Samuel H. Wilson, M.D.). 7. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ETHICS (Andrew Jameton, Ph.D.). 8. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: THE CONVERGENCE OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTALISM (Charles Lee). 9. RELIGIOUS APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH (Rabbi Daniel Swartz). PART II: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ON A GLOBAL SCALE. 10. POPULATION, RESOURCE USE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR HUMAN HEALTH (Don Hinrichsen). 11. CLIMATE CHANGE AND VARIABILITY (Jonathan A. Patz, M.D., M.P.H.). 12. WAR AND OTHER MILITARY ACTIVITIES (Barry S. Levy, M.D., M.P.H. and Victor W. Sidel, M.D.). 13. ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS AND DISEASE BURDENS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (Jerome Nriagu, Ph.D., Jaymie Meliker and Mary Johnson). PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ON A REGIONAL SCALE. 14. AIR POLLUTION (Michelle L. Bell, Ph.D. and Jonathan M. Samet). 15. ENERGY PRODUCTION (Richard Rheingans, Ph.D.). 16. URBANIZATION (Sandro Galea, M.D., Dr.P.H. and David Vlahov, Ph.D.). 17. TRANSPORTATION AND HEALTH (John Balbus, M.D., M.P.H. and Dushana Yoganathan Triola, M.D., M.P.H.). 18. WATER AND HEALTH (Timothy Ford, Ph.D.). Part IV: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ON A LOCAL SCALE. 19. SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE (Sven Rodenbeck, Sc.D., P.E., Kenneth Orloff, Ph.D., DABT, Harvey Rogers, M.S., Henry Falk, M.D., M.P.H.). 20. PEST CONTROL AND PESTICIDES (Mark G. Robson, Ph.D., M.P.H. and George C. Hamilton, Ph.D.). 21. FOOD SAFETY (David McSwane, H.S.D., R.E.H.S., C.F.S.P.). 22. INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS (Michael J. Hodgson, MD, MPH). 23. WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY (Melissa Perry, Sc.D. and Howard Hu, M.D., Sc.D.). 24. RADIATION (Arthur C. Upton, M.D.). 25. INJURY PREVENTION AND CONTROL (Junaid A. Razzak, M.D., Jeremy J. Hess, M.D., M.P.H., and Arthur L. Kellermann, M.D., M.P.H.). 26. DISASTER PREPAREDNESS (Eric K. Noji, M.D., M.P.H.). 27. NATURE CONTACT: A HEALTH BENEFIT? (Howard Frumkin, M.D., Dr.P.H.). 28. CHILDREN'S ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH (Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., M.Sc., Maida Galvez, M.D., AND Joel Forman, M.D.). PART V: THE PRACTICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH. 29. PREVENTION IN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH (Joel A. Tickner Sc.D.). 30. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AT THE STATE AND LOCAL LEVEL (Sarah Kotchian, Ed.M., M.P.H., Ph.D.). 31. GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (Lance A. Waller, Ph.D.). 32. RISK ASSESSMENT (Scott Bartell, Ph.D.). 33. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH POLICY (Barry L. Johnson, Ph.D.). 34. RISK COMMUNICATION (Vincent T. Covello, Ph.D.). 35. THE ROLE OF THE CLINICIAN IN ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE (Robert Laumbach, M.D., M.P.H., C.I.H., Howard M. Kipen, M.D., M.P.H.). 36. LEGAL REMEDIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH EXPOSURES (Douglas A. Henderson Ph.D., J.D..).
Autorenporträt
Howard Frumkin, M.D., Dr.P.H., is professor and chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, and professor of medicine at Emory Medical School.