Basic Environmental Health
Annalee Yassi, Tord Kjellström, Theo de Kok, and Tee Guidotti
Abstract
This book draws from the social sciences, the natural sciences, and the health sciences to introduce the principles and methods applied in environmental health. It presents an overview of the basic sciences needed to understand environmental health hazards, including toxicology, microbiology, health physics, injury analysis, and relevant psychosocial concepts. It also presents a basic approach to risk assessment and risk management. The first part of the book concentrates on broad issues, providing frameworks for the investigation and management of environmental health problems. The middle sec ... More
This book draws from the social sciences, the natural sciences, and the health sciences to introduce the principles and methods applied in environmental health. It presents an overview of the basic sciences needed to understand environmental health hazards, including toxicology, microbiology, health physics, injury analysis, and relevant psychosocial concepts. It also presents a basic approach to risk assessment and risk management. The first part of the book concentrates on broad issues, providing frameworks for the investigation and management of environmental health problems. The middle section deepens the discussion of routes of exposure (air quality, water and sanitation, food and agricultural issues). The final section addresses environmental health from sustainable development themes (settlements and urbanization, energy, industry, and global concerns). The final chapter focuses on ethical issues and action planning.
Keywords:
health hazards,
toxicology,
microbiology,
health physics,
injury analysis,
psychosocial concepts,
risk assessment,
risk management,
ethical issues
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2001 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195135589 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2009 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195135589.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Annalee Yassi, author
University of Manitoba
Tord Kjellström, author
University of Auckland
Theo de Kok, author
Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Tee Guidotti, author
George Washington University Medical Center
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