Environmental medicine

The world's activated carbon market volume has increased rapidly in recent years due to environmental regulations.

This book offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to transport phenomena.

This handbook presents a must-read, comprehensive and state of the art overview of sustainable diets, an issue critical to the environment and the health and well-being of society.

From childhood to millennials and beyond, it is essential we take a life-course approach to occupation and work when in pain.

Networks in Tropical Medicine explores how European doctors and scientists worked together across borders to establish the new field of tropical medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Environmental risk factors - noise, air pollution, chemical agents, and ultraviolet radiation - impact human health by contributing to the onset and progression of noncommunicable diseases.

Pandemics have long-term effects on how we live and work, and the COVID-19 pandemic was no exception, accelerating us into a digital economy, in which people increasingly work, shop, and learn online, transforming how we use space in-person and remotely.

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

Methods for determining exposure of pesticides to agricultural workers have been developing for over thirty years.

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Surfactants are often completely invisible to us and yet they are present in almost every chemical that we use in our daily life.

Understanding the chemistry underlying sustainable energy is central to any long-term solution to meeting our future energy needs.

With the emergence of new pesticide combinations and application methods, assessing their potential risks to non-target organisms and human well-being becomes paramount.

Structure-Function Relationships of Human Pathogenic Viruses provides information on the mechanisms by which viruses enter the cell, replicate, package their DNA into capsids and mature into new virions.

The book is designed to highlight the utility of supramolecular systems in diverse areas such as sensing of ionic and molecular analytes, aggregation, artificial molecular machines, biology, and medicine.

This book provides an overview on the major neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa, such as Leishmaniasis, Buruli Ulcer and Schistosomiasis.

Understanding attenuation processes is important not only for predicting the behavior of contaminants in soil and formulating remediation strategies, but also for mitigating and enhancing the availability of micronutrients in soil for agricultural applications.

This book highlights key ideas and factors to coach and guide professionals involved in learning about Sterile Manufacturing and operational requirements.

This invaluable handbook provides a basic knowledge of muscle action and co-ordination with which students of occupational therapy can applying specific techniques to specific conditions of muscle insufficiency for the restoration of function.

When the Nobel Prize Committee recognized the importance of green chemistry with its 2005 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, this relatively new science came into its own.

This casebook profiles exceptional traumatic injury prevention programs from all over the globe.

Chromatography has been developed as a powerful and rapid technique for the separation of compounds with highly similar molecular characteristics, even from complicated matrices.

The general populations are incidentally exposed to a wide variety of xenobiotics as a consequence of the pollution of the environment by industrial and agricultural chemicals.

The bestselling environmental health text, with all new coverage of key topics Environmental Health: From Global to Local is a comprehensive introduction to the subject, and a contemporary, authoritative text for students of public health, environmental health, preventive medicine, community health, and environmental studies.

Chiral Organic Pollutants introduces readers to the growing challenges of chirality in synthetic chemicals.

In order to assess the health and environmental effects of a chemical, you need to determine the exposure of the chemical to sensitive organisms as well as to assess the likely effects.

This book informs students and practitioners of the health professions about workplace bullying and how to recognise it.

With a large proportion of emergency admissions due to occupational health problems, the effect this can have on your practice cannot be ignored.

Technological development has not only provided mankind with more prosperity, but with increased destructive power as well.

This book covers varied aspects of environmental contaminants and their effect on the living organisms.

Although urban allotment gardening dates back to the nineteenth century, it has recently undergone a renaissance of interest and popularity.

Actively Caring for Safety: The Psychological Science of Injury Prevention outlines proactive applications of applied behavioural science and humanism (i.

This book is about the well-being of today's female physicians.

How do accidents and disasters occur?

This thematic collection focuses on key parasites and their vectors in Southeast Asia.

Today, the agriculture industry is confronted with simultaneous issues of how to fully embrace mass production of safer food in terms of both quality and quantity.

This book provides designers, planners, educators, and therapists with the practical information required to remove inequity in outdoor spaces, by creating inviting and inclusive solutions so that all children and their families, regardless of situation or circumstance, can experience the joys and benefits of outdoor play without stigma.

This book is devoted to the problems of oxidation chemical reactions and addresses bimodal reaction sequences.

Reflecting the substantial increase in popularity of quadrupole ion traps and Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometers, Practical Aspects of Trapped Ion Mass Spectrometry, Volume IV: Theory and Instrumentation explores the historical origins of the latest advances in this expanding field.

While many terms relate to One Health, the idea remains the same: to think outside a chosen area of specialty and work collaboratively as part of a team to improve health status around the world.

This new edition of Air Pollution Control Equipment Selection Guide builds upon the successes of previous editions that developed a detailed discussion on various technologies used for air pollution control.

This is the long-awaited pocket text on risk assessment for students and professionals in all health and safety fields.

Marine environment can be affected by several pollutants such as the presence of elements and their chemical species, pharmaceuticals, nanoparticles and other emerging contaminants.

This textbook presents a comprehensive examination of environmental science and ecotoxicology for undergraduate students.

Our world is widely contaminated with damaging chemicals, and companies create thousands of new, potentially dangerous chemicals each year.

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