Environmental medicine

Ausgehend von den normalen Altersveränderungen des Gehirns, des kardiopulmonalen Systems, des Bewegungsapparates und des Hormonsystems, die große genetische Unterschiede aufweisen können, untersucht der Autor die Bedeutung der unbeeinflußbaren und beeinflußbaren Umweltfaktoren für das Altwerden.

Due to changes in modern life, occupational dermatoses are increasing.

This self-contained text offers all the information necessary for readers to understand the topics surrounding environmental science and the chemistry underlying various issues.

An Occupational Therapist's Role in Health Literacy and Integrated Care gives students a look into one of the most important roles of a therapist: health educator.

Uniquely, this book gives consumers a voice and regales tales of their experiences.

This 2nd edition of the Handbook "e;Regulatory Toxicology"e; was written and updated by experts for professionals, scientists and all those involved in toxicological data generation and decision-making.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Metal Ions in Biological Systems is devoted to increasing our understanding of the relationship between the chemistry of metals and life processes.

The soil-transmitted nematode parasites, or geohelminths, are - called because they have a direct life cycle, which involves no intermediate hosts or vectors, and are transmitted by faecal contamination of soil, foodstuffs and water supplies.

This book is a well organised treatise on identification and measurement of dioxins and furan in the environment.

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This book gathers cutting-edge research and best practices relating to occupational risk and safety management, healthcare and ergonomics.

Designed to demystify chemistry for the non-chemist, Rapid Review of Chemistry for the Life Sciences and Engineering is a useful reference manual for life scientists and engineers, who may have forgotten a formula, principle, or concept in the college chemistry taken a few years ago.

Stewarding the Sound uses different perspectives to build awareness of the wealth and fragility of this ecosystem by balancing economic and social needs with conservation.

This book focuses on green and innovative wastewater treatment technologies that promote sustainability.

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

Architecture and Health recognizes the built environment and health as inextricable encouraging a new mind-set for the profession.

As more medical professionals recognize the intuitive benefits of prehabilitation, there is a need to pull best practices that exist across the literature and set a multimodal standard of care.

Completely updated version this classic reference covers both physical hazards and biological agents Provides updated information on protecting workers from proven and possible health risks from manual material handling, extremes of temperature and pressure, ionizing and non-ionizing (magnetic fields) radiation, shiftwork, and more Details major changes in our understanding of biological hazards including Ebola, Chikungunya, Zika, HIV, Hepatitis C, Lyme disease, MERS-CoV, TB, and much more All infectious diseases have been updated from an occupational health perspective Includes practical guidance on to how to set up medical surveillance for hazards and suggests preventive measures that can be used to reduce occupational diseases

This second edition examines the problems facing the mining industry, and offers practical case studies, as well as new solutions for environmental restoration and remediation.

Museums and Well-being outlines the historical development of well-being within museums and offers a critical engagement with this field from a museum studies perspective.

Now in its fourth edition, Occupational Hearing Loss delivers a complete overview of the hazards of occupational noise exposure, causes of hearing loss, testing of hearing, criteria to distinguish occupational hearing loss, and more.

This book provides valuable new insights into preventive measures for chronic arsenic poisoning, exploring the various causes, metabolism and toxicity, preventive drugs, functional foods and various methods for removing arsenic from contaminated water.

This book is concerned with human factors and ergonomics research and developments in the design and use of systems and devices for effective and safe healthcare delivery.

This new edition updates the previous one and adds additional content related to postoperative management, pain management, LGBTQ care,  and uroradiology.

Since our first manned space flights we have learned much about how the human body adapts to the space environment and in particular, to the absence of gravity.

Challenging Concepts in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology details over 30 challenging cases from a wide area of infectious diseases, medical microbiology and virology and includes topics ranging from typhoid fever to secondary syphilis.

Addressing the persistent environmental threat of organic chemicals with a fresh approach to degradation and transformation processes, Organic Chemicals in the Environment: Mechanisms of Degradation and Transformation, Second Edition examines a wide range of compounds as well as abiotic and microbiological reactions mediated by microorganisms

We live in a day and age in which many fields come together to define new ones, and out of these newly defined areas come innovative practices, and emergent ways of thinking.

Dieses praxisorientierte Buch behandelt ein stetig wachsendes Teilgebiet der Neurologie grundlegend.

Biological Effects of Low-Level Exposures, more commonly referred to as BELLE, began as a conference in May 1990.

This collection takes an interdisciplinary look at how the transformation towards plant-based diets is becoming more culturally acceptable, economically accessible, technically available and politically viable.

Dioxin - Environmental Fate and Health/Ecological Consequences offers a unique, and comprehensive coverage of dioxins and their congeners once they are released to the environment.

A thorough, concise, up-to-date guide to the diagnosis and treatment of common occupational and environmental injuries and diseasesA Doody's Core Title for 2019!

This eye-opening study adds to the scarce scholarly literature on professional athletes, bringing empirical rigor to issues often clouded by mystery and hearsay.

The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the law relating to houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in part 2 of the Housing Act 2004 that local authorities environmental health practitioners use to regulate this sector.

The public health movement involved numerous individuals who made the case for change and put new practices into place.

This book outlines the electro-activity in the human body, human behavior, and other bio-information during image viewing and applies it to a hygienic and clinical setting.

American trypanosomiasis, or Chagas disease, is caused by the protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi.

It is an unusual event for a textbook covering such a national and international networks and the use of highly specialized field as contact dermatitis to be standardized methodology, a highly differentiated published in its fourth edition within a time period picture can now be painted; we know the major p- of 13 years.

Offering an example for transnational cooperation and successful reduction of a neglected tropical disease, this volume shows how Chinese scientists and local physicians controlled schistosomiasis in Zanzibar.

Drawing on empirical work and secondary analysis from the UK and Finnish construction industries, this book contributes a deep-rooted analysis of construction industry harms that originate from corporate-industrialstate processes.