Environmental Health

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Environmental Health: From Global to Local offers students acomprehensive introduction to environmental health. It provides anoverview of methods and paradigms used in this exciting field,ranging from ecology to epidemiology, from toxicology toenvironmental psychology, from genetics to ethics to religion. Theauthors survey the major issues in contemporary environmentalhealth, ranging from global issues such as climate change and warto regional issues such as air, water, transportation, and energyto local issues such as food safety, pest control, and occupationalhealth. The book includes a strong focus on the real-world practiceof environmental public health, offering chapters on such appliedtopics as risk assessment, risk communication, health services,regulations, and legal remedies. While Environmental Healthis grounded in the U.S. experience, it emphasizes global issues andperspectives on such topics as economic development, population,urbanization, and sanitation. Prize or Award * AAP Awards for Excellence in Professional and ScholarlyPublishing, 2006

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Howard Frumkin

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Arbeit und Gesundheit Arbeitssicherheit u. Umweltschutz i. d. Chemie Chemical and Environmental Health and Safety Chemie Chemistry Umwelt und Gesundheit

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"[It] will become a classic textbook for the dynamic, evolvingfield of environmental health.The book challenges ourconventionally narrow definition of environmentalhealth.thoughtful, well written, well balanced andreferenced, and provides an excellent overview of a multifacetedapproach to environmental health." --Dana Headapohl, St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula,Montana (AOEC Newsletter (Association of Occupational andEnvironmental Clinics)) "This book is a tour de force -- it is really five bookscombined into one. With its many examples, clear explanations, andemphasis on big picture themes and relevance, it is anastonishingly interesting read.a coherent, timely, andreadable book." --Rose Goldman, Harvard Medical School (Global PublicHealth 2007;2:316-18) "The book's 36 chapters contain highly pertinent insights andinformation on environmental issues that go beyond the usualboundaries of classic environmental health. Among the manyexcellent chapters are the ones on climate change, ecology,urbanization, environmental justice, developing nations, healthcare services, energy production, genetics, indoor air pollution,religious issues, clinical services, legal remedies, environmentalhealth policy, and transportation." --Bernard Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh(Environmental Health Perspectives 2006;114:A672)
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