Environmental Medicine
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Environmental Medicine

  1. 386 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Environmental Medicine

About this book

Environmental Medicine, Second Edition stresses the importance of the medicine of the environment and emphasizes the advantages which must emanate from a multidisciplinary approach to the method in which environmental factors impinge on the health and wellbeing of the human race. The selection first offers information on the environment, its influences, and hazards to health and trace element concentrations in various environments. Discussions focus on the possible relationships between trace element imbalances and diseases; biological concentration of trace elements; variable relationships between trace elements in soils and vegetables; and trace element concentrations in mining areas. The text then ponders on radiation and health hazards and water in relation to human disease. The manuscript underscores the relationship of weather and climate to health and disease and air pollution in relation to human disease. Topics include effect of meteorological stimuli on normal physiological processes in healthy subjects; effect of weather and climate on miscellaneous biological phenomena in man; and therapeutic applications of human biometeorology. The ecological approach to pesticides and its importance to human disease and the patterns of infectious diseases in developed countries in relation to environmental factors are also discussed. The selection is a dependable source material for health experts and readers interested in environmental medicine.

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Information

Publisher
Butterworth-Heinemann
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780433153511
eBook ISBN
9781483192871
Edition
2
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Public Health, Administration & Care

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Environmental Medicine
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Preface to the Second Edition
  7. Chapter 1. The Environment, Its Influences and Hazards to Health
  8. Chapter 2. Some Trace Element Concentrations in Various Environments
  9. Chapter 3. Radiation and Health Hazards
  10. Chapter 4. Water in Relation to Human Disease
  11. Chapter 5. The Relationship of Weather and Climate to Health and Disease
  12. Chapter 6. Air Pollution in Relation to Human Disease
  13. Chapter 7. The Ecological Approach to Pesticides and its Relevance to Human Disease
  14. Chapter 8. Patterns of Infectious Diseases in Developed Countries in Relation to Environmental Factors
  15. Chapter 9. Diseases of Affluence
  16. Chapter 10. Environmental and Other Risk Indicators in the Aetiology of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
  17. Chapter 11. Environmental Influences in Cancer Aetiology
  18. Chapter 12. The Environment and Thyroid Disorders
  19. Chapter 13. Environmental Factors in Relation to Obstetrics
  20. Chapter 14. Environmental Factors in Gynaecological Conditions
  21. Chapter 15. Venereal Diseases in Contemporary Societies
  22. Chapter 16. Alcoholism as a Reflection of Environment
  23. Chapter 17. Drug Dependence in Contemporary Societies
  24. Chapter 18. Mental Health and the Environment
  25. Chapter 19. Old Age
  26. Chapter 20. The Geography of Genes
  27. Chapter 21. Jet-borne Pestilences: Today and Tomorrow
  28. Chapter 22. The Documentation of Environmental Medicine: Conventional & Computerized Information Retrieval Methods
  29. Index