Environmental medicine

Historically in warfare, the majority of all combat deaths have occurred prior to a casualty ever receiving advanced trauma management.

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 book covers everything a prospective field physician needs to prepare for when beginning a wilderness expedition.

Microbiology and virology laboratories provide a diagnostic service that supports the management of patients under the care of front-line clinicians.

This volume brings together updated fundamental knowledge of the schistosomes, their biology and epidemiology, the mechanism of disease and a full description of the pathological sequelae and clinical syndromes in humans.

In this unique book, Sidney Dekker tackles a largely unexplored dilemma.

Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease that is known to be transmitted by 90 different species of sandflies which carry 20 Leishmania species that cause human infection particularly in endemic countries.

This 5-volume set allows you to assess the health and environmental effects of chemicals by determining the routes of exposure of the chemical to sensitive organisms.

Written 10 years after the publication of the first edition, this updated edition of Real-Time Environmental Monitoring: Sensors and Systems introduces the fundamentals of environmental monitoring based on electronic sensors, instruments, systems, and software that allow continuous and long-term ecological and environmental data collection.

Current Topics in Occupational Epidemiology is an in-depth study of contemporary issues and emerging themes in the field.

First Responder's Guide to Agricultural Chemical Accidents provides emergency safety and health information for 452 toxic and hazardous products.

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

Focusing on the spinal cord and its role in motor control, Restorative Neurology of Spinal Cord Injury details the clinical and neurophysiological assessment process and methods developed throughout the past half century by basic and clinical scientists.

Updated to reflect the numerous advances that have evolved since the September 11 terrorist attacks, Emergency Response Handbook for Chemical and Biological Agents and Weapons, Second Edition maintains its reputation as a comprehensive training manual for emergency responders to incidents involving nuclear, biological, and chemical materials

Asthma can be caused and aggravated by occupational factors in working adults.

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.

Difficult to measure accurately and deal with effectively, organic pollutants continue to be a major hazard in the environment.

This practical book covers all aspects of the biology of malaria vectors, with notes on the vectors of dengue.

In 2019, a National Health Service Trust in England lost 11 members of current and former staff members to suspected suicide.

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

Work has never been as safe as it seems today.

This book focuses on the detection, extraction, remediation techniques, and future perspectives of microplastics.

Using an easily accessible, highly templated format, Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine, 2nd Edition, provides more than 100 realistic scenarios for tropical infectious diseases.

Pathology of Asbestos-Associated Diseases integrates the newest research and advances in its discussion of asbestos-induced diseases.

It has been observed that rapid population expansion has raised the amount of anthropogenic activity, resulting in high levels of pollution in water, air, and solid waste as well as an increase in the pressure placed on agricultural lands.

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

Tropical Diseases outlines the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases encountered in developing regions---areas where the unexpected can occur and where Western medical capabilities are often unavailable.

Building for Well-Being is the first introduction to health-focused building standards for design and construction professionals.

Increased public concern over the control of environmental forces and industrial hazards has led to awareness for the need for improved conditions for all who work.

"e;Why I Became an Occupational Physician"e; and Other Occupational Health Stories brings together an edited collection of the short articles published in the journal Occupational Medicine between 2002 and 2018.

Phytotechnologies: Remediation of Environmental Contaminants highlights the use of natural and inherent traits of plants and associated microbes to exclude, accumulate, or metabolize a variety of contaminants, with the goal of efficiently and sustainably decontaminating the biosphere from unwanted hazardous compounds.

Green chemistry is a work tool that can be applied in different areas such as medicine, materials, polymers, food, organic chemistry, etc.

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

The COVID-19 pandemic is unlike anything the world has ever seen before.

This book is aimed at surgeons faced with the immediate management of acute surgical problems in a variety of resource settings.

Basic Concepts of Environmental Chemistry, Second Edition provides a theoretical basis for the behavior and biological effects of natural chemical entities and contaminants in natural systems, concluding with a practical focus on risk assessment and the environmental management of chemicals.

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

Advances in Energy, Environment and Chemical Engineering collects papers resulting from the conference on Energy, Environment and Chemical Engineering (AEECE 2022), Dali, China, 24-26 June, 2022.

The connection between environment and health has been well studied and documented, particularly by the World Health Organization.

'It is clear that our bodies still recognize nature as our home.

Winner of the 2018 IDEC Book AwardWith fifteen essays by scholars and professionals, from fields such as policy and law, Health and Well-being for Interior Architecture asks readers to consider climate, geography, and culture alongside human biology, psychology, and sociology.

The 'bible' of occupational health, Fitness for Work is the most in-depth and comprehensive resource available on the relationship between ill health and employment.

Based on the success of the first edition, this second edition continues to build upon fundamental principles of biosensor design and incorporates recent advances in intelligent materials and novel fabrication techniques for a broad range of real world applications.

Patient care is the cornerstone of occupational therapy, but it does not exist in isolation.

Quantitative Ecotoxicology, Second Edition explores models and methods of quantitative ecotoxicology at progressively higher biological scales using worked examples and common software packages.

This book explores how human factors and ergonomic principles are currently transforming healthcare.

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.

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.

Aqueous solubility is one of the major challenges in the early stages of drug discovery.

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