Environmental Pollutant Exposures and Public Health (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Harrison, R M

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Both genes and environment have profound effects upon our health. While some environmental factors such as polluted air are high in the public consciousness, there are many other pathways for people's exposure to toxic chemicals, such as through food, water and contaminated land. It is not only chemicals that can affect health; environmental radioactivity, pathogenic organisms and our changing climate also have implications for public health, and all contribute to the global burden of disease, leading to both disability and deaths of millions of people annually across the world. An understanding of the pathways of environmental exposure, and its effects upon health is key to developing regulations and behaviours that reduce or prevent exposure, and the consequent impacts upon health.

Covering topics from dietary exposure to chemicals through to the health effects of climate change, this book brings together contributors from around the world to highlight the latest science on the impacts of environmental pollutant exposure upon public health.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RSC
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839160448
• Artikelnr.: 60512132

Autorenporträt

Professor Roy Harrison OBE is listed by ISI Thomson Scientific (on ISI Web of Knowledge) as a Highly Cited Researcher in the Environmental Science/Ecology category. He has an h-index of 84 (i.e. 84 of his papers have received 84 or more citations in the literature). In 2004 he was appointed OBE for services to environmental science in the New Year Honours List and in 2017 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was profiled by the Journal of Environmental Monitoring (Vol 5, pp 39N-41N, 2003). Professor Harrison's research interests lie in the field of environment and human health. His main specialism is in air pollution, from emissions through atmospheric chemical and physical transformations to exposure and effects on human health. Much of this work is designed to inform the development of policy.

Inhaltsangabe

Dietary exposures to chemicals and health
Chemical pollution of the aquatic environment and health
Microbiological contamination of water and health
Outdoor and indoor air pollutant exposure
The effects of air pollution upon public health
The effects of indoor air pollution on children's health
Contaminated land and human health
Environmental radiation and health
Endocrine disrupting chemicals and health
Consumer products as a source of human exposure to chemicals
Climate change and health