Environmental health : from global to local / Howard Frumkin, editor.

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Other Authors: Frumkin, Howard (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Brand, [2016]
Edition:Third edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Potential conflicts of interest in environmental health: from global to local references
  • Part 1: Methods and paradigms
  • Chapter 1: Introduction to environmental health
  • Chapter 2: Ecology and ecosystems as foundational for health
  • Chapter 3: Sustainability and health
  • Chapter 4: Environmental and occupational epidemiology
  • Chapter 5: Geospatial data for environmental health
  • Chapter 6: Toxicology
  • Chapter 7: Genes, genomics, and environmental health
  • Chapter 8: Exposure science, industrial hygiene, and exposure assessment
  • Chapter 9: Environmental psychology
  • Chapter 10: Environmental health ethics
  • Chapter 11: Environment justice and vulnerable populations
  • Part 2: Environmental health on the global scale
  • Chapter 12: Climate change and human health.
  • Part 3: Chapter 13: Air pollution
  • Chapter 14: Energy and human health
  • Chapter 15: Healthy communities
  • Chapter 16: Water and health
  • Part 4: Environmental health on the local scale
  • Chapter 17: Solid and hazardous waste
  • Chapter 18: Pest control and pesticides
  • Chapter 19: Food systems, the environment, and public health
  • Chapter 20: Buildings and health
  • Chapter 21: Work, health, and well-being
  • Chapter 22: Radiation
  • Chapter 23: Injuries
  • Chapter 24: Environmental disasters
  • Chapter 25: Nature contact.Part 5: The practice of Environmental health
  • Chapter 26: Environmental public health: from theory to practice
  • Chapter 27: Risk assessment in environmental health
  • Chapter 28: Communicating environmental health.