Environmental medicine

This book examines the impact of climate change on eye disease and eye health.

Handbook of Sustainable Materials presents recent developments in sustainable materials and how these materials interact with the environment.

The book is written for use by health care workers involved in the primary eye care of leprosy patients, particularly in leprosy endemic areas.

R for Quantitative Chemistry is an exploration of how the R language can be applied to a wide variety of problems in what is typically termed "e;Quantitative Chemistry"e; or sometimes "e;Analytical Chemistry"e;.

New analytical techniques have enhanced current understanding of the behavior of trace and ultratrace elements in the biogeochemical cycling, chemical speciation, bioavailability, bioaccumulation, and as applied to the phytoremediation of contaminated soils.

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

Industry 4.

With escalating concerns over the current state of our planet, the realization to work toward reducing our environmental footprint is gaining momentum.

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

More than 10 years ago, I had the chance to visit the university hospital in Munster, Germany.

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

Even a cursory perusal of any analytical journal will demonstrate the increasing important of trace and ultra-trace analysis.

Phosphorus is an essential plant nutrient, but global population growth has dramatically reduced the availability of phosphorus fertilizer resources.

Despite vaccines and medicines, we have not succeeded in eradicating the most poisonous viruses in the world, like jaundice, measles, diarrhea, polio, and AIDS, not to mention newcomers like West Nile and SARS.

This book provides the basic knowledge in sample collection, field and laboratory quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC), sample custody, regulations and standards of environmental pollutants.

Wer sich mit der Entwicklung des Gesundheitszustands und der Gesundheitsversor­ gung in unserer Gesellschaft befaßt, wird zunächst sicher eher eine "objektivistische" Perspektive bevorzugen.

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

Recently, there has been interest by regulators, the public and the manufacturers of wireless devices in the issues relating to the safety of radio frequency (RF) energy.

The Legacy of Carbon Dioxide: Past and Present Impacts covers the truly varied roles carbon dioxide has played and continues to play in the character of our planet.

This book has been written to account for improvements in the regulatory regime for shipboard health, safety and welfare.

Within the digital era, agile working is imperative for organisations and workers to meet the needs of customers, service-users and ever-changing markets.

Occupational Safety and Health for the Young Professional provides a compelling and comprehensive-yet easy-to-read-guide for students and aspiring professionals looking to work in the field of occupational safety and health (S&H).

This book considers the global response on governance after the pandemic while sociologically addressing the effects of COVID-19 on life and work experience.

This volume discusses the effects of indoor air environment and pollution in modern buildings on human health.

The globally important nature of wetland ecosystems has led to their increased protection and restoration as well as their use in engineered systems.

This book includes reports which were presented at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) entitled "e;Medical Treatment of Intoxications and Decontamination of Chemical Agent in the Area of Terrorist Attack"e;.

This significantly updated and expanded new edition presents the scientific foundations of inhalation research essential to the design and conduct of toxicologic studies.

This book highlights the potential of school farms to fight hunger and malnutrition by providing access to locally produced, fresh, and healthy food as well as providing young students with educational opportunities to learn, interact with nature, and develop their skills.

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

This book shows how human factors and ergonomic principles have been transforming healthcare.

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.

Carefully crafted to provide a comprehensive overview of the chemistry of water in the environment, Water Chemistry: Green Science and Technology of Nature's Most Renewable Resource examines water issues within the broad framework of sustainability, an issue of increasing importance as the demands of Earth's human population threaten to overwhelm t

An accurate and complete characterization of the solid pollutants in air, taking into account the physio-chemical and technological data available concerning the origin, transformation, and the effects of dust, is a synoptic approach known as SISintegrated dust analysis and is the underlying concept of this book.

Die Corona-Pandemie aus arbeitsmedizinischer Sicht Die Corona-Pandemie hat auch in der Arbeitswelt tiefe Spuren hinterlassen.

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

This volume of the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) series covers the most prevalent NTDs in Europe and Central Asia.

The field of humic matter research has undergone drastic changes in concepts and principles since the first edition of Humic Matter in Soil and the Environment: Principles and Controversies was published more than a decade ago.

Diffuse Lung Disorders aims to bring together pathologists, clinicians and diagnostic radiologists to produce a simplified analysis and a unification of the existing concepts in the diagnosis and treatment of diffuse lung diseases.

Mosquitoes, Communities, and Public Health in Texas focuses on 87 known species of mosquitoes found throughout Texas.

Disease, injury, or congenital disorders result in an inability to perform activities of daily living as effectively as others.

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

Handbook of Sustainable Materials presents recent developments in sustainable materials and how these materials interact with the environment.

"e;Human security"e; is an approach that rejects the traditional prioritization of state security, and instead identifies the individual as the primary referent of security.

Multimedia Environmental Models: The Fugacity Approach, Third Edition, takes a broad approach of viewing chemical behavior in the total biosphere of connected biotic and abiotic compartments.