Environmental Health Science
Recognition, Evaluation, and Control of Chemical and Physical Health Hazards
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 2 October 2003
- ISBN 9780195083743
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages560 pages
- Size 241x162x30 mm
- Weight 938 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous line drawings, tables and black and white photographs 0
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Short description:
This text provides a unified treatment of the chemical and physical stresses in our common environment. Anyone who has a basic familiarity with college-level biology, chemistry, and physics can gain from it an appreciation of the complex issues that influence the release and dispersion of chemical and physical agents, their effects on the environment and health, and how we can protect ourselves and the environment from unacceptable risks.
MoreLong description:
This is a broad, in-depth introduction to a scientific field that is becoming ever more central to human health. Environmental exposures to a bewildering array of chemical and physical agents result from our individual and collective activities, and can cause effects ranging from discomfort through loss of function, illness, chronic diseases, and premature death. Their concomitant effects on quality of life, productivity, and need for clinical services can be
costly. The book covers the terminology used in environmental health; the sources of chemical and physical agents in the environment; how they disperse and transform throughout the environment; their effects on environmental quality and human health; how levels and exposures are quantified; how standards
are established; how levels, exposures, and risks can be controlled; and what technological opportunities and trends are likely to influence our environmental future. It includes chapters on noise, ionizing radiation, non-ionizing radiation, risk assessment, and risk management. Written in a clear and systematic way, this text will be an invaluable resource for students of environmental health.
An earlier version of the book, Chemical Contamination in the Human Environment (OUP 1979), was called by one teacher "visionary...easily the most useful textbook in environmental health science for entry-level graduate students."
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Characterisation of Contaminants, Environments, and Human Health
Sources of Contaminants
Dispersion of Contaminants
Fate of Environmental Chemicals: Translocation, Transformations and Sinks
Effects of Chemical Contaminants on Human Health
Anthropogenic Impacts on Environmental Quality: Their Influence on Human Health and Welfare
Human Exposure Assessment
Environmental Noise
Nonionizing Electromagnetic Radiations
Ionizing Radiation and Environmental Radioactivity
Contamination Criteria and Exposure Limits: Guidelines and Standards
Risk Assessment
Risk Management
Our Environmental Future
