Environmental medicine

Environmental Medicine is an indispensable aid to the investigation, diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of environmentally-acquired disorders.

Determination of metals is a major part of the work of environmental testing laboratories.

Assessment of freshwater sediments can determine whether chemical concentrations are sufficient to cause adverse effects on aquatic organisms or organisms higher in the food chain, including humans.

Environmental Chemistry in the Lab presents a comprehensive approach to modern environmental chemistry laboratory instruction, together with a complete experimental experience.

This book discusses the latest findings on ensuring employees' safety, health, and welfare at work.

There are approximately 500 different soil varieties in Malaysia, most is residual soil and coastal alluvial soil.

In the 1950s, the residents of the southwestern coastal areas of Taiwan suffered greatly from Blackfoot disease (BFD) due to the consumption of arsenic-contaminated groundwater.

This authoritative text on occupational lung disorders builds upon the fundamentals, including clinical, epidemiological, and predictive approaches.

There are overwhelming demands for health and rehabilitation services due to rise in the number of disabled people.

A map of the relationship between work and health that is truly global--both geographically and in its coverage of the impact of work on the health of individuals, families, and societies, has not previously been drawn.

This book covers the latest advances in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer care.

This detailed handbook covers different chromatographic analysis techniques and chromatographic data for compounds found in air, water, and soil, and sludge.

The book discusses the indispensable connection between the environment and health via all possible aspects, focussing on human interactions with the environment.

In this book Gayle Souter-Brown explores the social, economic and environmental benefits of developing greenspace for health and well-being.

This book is intended to be an introductory reference to green technology and design for the environment (GTDFE) for working professionals as well as a basic text for graduate course work in engineering, covering all facets of GTDFE.

This book addresses the limited information on vision training and the importance of having knowledge of superior visual skills in our everyday, individualised environment including the classroom, workspace, and sports setting.

The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted and implies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presence of nature.

This book highlights the work of pioneers in this field, in order to inspire their peers, healthcare leaders and an interested audience.

Clean environment and green energy are the basic requirements of a sustainable human life.

The range of environments in which people can survive is extensive, yet most of the natural world cannot support human life.

The success of any space flight mission depends not only on advanced technology but also on the health and well-being of crew members.

There is growing acceptance that the progress delivered under the Millennium Development Goal target for drinking water and sanitation has been inequitable.

Architecture for Residential Care and Ageing Communities confronts urgent architectural design challenges within residential innovation, ageing communities and healthcare environments.

Due to increasing demand for potable and irrigation water, water suppliers have to use alternative resources.

A comprehensive account of the state of the science of environmental mass transportEdited by Louis J.

This detailed handbook covers different chromatographic analysis techniques and chromatographic data for compounds found in air, water, and soil, and sludge.

Proponents of the concept of ecological integrity argue that it is a necessary component of global governance on which the sustainable future of the planet and its inhabitants depends.

The extensive safety restrictions imposed globally due to the COVID-19 pandemic have brought significant changes to almost all environmental parameters.

Tuberculosis remains one of the most prevalent, deadly, and underdiagnosed infectious diseases in the world.

Concepts, procedures and programs described in this book make it possible for readers to solve both simple and complex equilibria problems quickly and easily and to visualize results in both numerical and graphical forms.

There is a growing need for environmental measurement personnel who possess a solid understanding of the techniques of air pollutant sampling.

This book presents of all aspects of storm water management: the hydrologic cycle, sources of contaminants, standards applicable to discharges, regulatory issues, atmospheric deposition, best management practices, and health/environmental impacts.

Adsorption is one of the method that is in use for remediation of contaminated water.

Ecology is cross-disciplinary field involving many different aspects of science.

Space medicine has been an important component of the success of human spaceflight and will continue to play a critical role in the future ventures.

Landfilling has been and still remains an important means of municipal solid waste management but it poses a threat to the purity of the environment, especially air.

There are two questions often asked of risk communication: what has been learned from past work, and what is needed to push the field forward?

Environment-Behavior Studies for Healthcare Design explains how environment-behavior (EB) studies can contribute to healthcare design research and explores how evidence-based theories can be applied and integrated into the healthcare design practice.

Volume 44, devoted solely to the vital research areas concerning the biogeochemistry of metals and their transport in the environment and availability to living systems, offers 9 timely and authoritative chapters on these fascinating topics by 19 internationally recognized experts.

This timely and much-needed book focuses on the phenomenon often referred to as "e;holiday hunger"e; in the United Kingdom.

Complete coverage of air pollution from its sources to its health and environmental impacts, for advanced students and researchers.

Carbon nanomaterials possess special physical and chemical properties.

This book explores theory and practice in the complex policy area of privately rented housing in England, with a particular focus on environmental and public health.

This important volume provides new research on the design and application of ecologically safe formulations for protecting cultivated crops against pathogen-causing diseases and weeds-that also provide nitrogen fertilizers at the same time.

If observed from an objective, epistemological standpoint, medicine is not a science, at least not in its own right.

There remains a lack of understanding of environmental isotopes and their use; students and practitioners typically find the concepts of isotope concentrations and partitioning to be more complicated than for geochemistry.

This book presents an integrated discussion on ecotoxicology, containing both general concepts and specific ecotoxicological issues of major biological groups, extending beyond conventional systems.

Supramolecular catalysis is involved in assimilation or growth of biological products and it has advantages over conventional catalysis in dealing with systems beyond molecules to mimic the biological catalytic processes.

In the last decades the public concern on the pesticide residues content in foods have been steadily rising.

Tremendous improvements in ground-water sampling methodologies and analytical technologies have made it possible to collect and analyze truly representative samples to detect increasingly lower levels of contaminants-now in the sub-parts-per-billion range.