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Impact of Environmental Pollution on Health: Balancing Risk


Impact of Environmental Pollution on Health: Balancing Risk

Paperback by Briggs, Professor David (Chair, Environmental, Chair, Environmental); and Health Sciences (, both at the Imperial College School); of Medicine, London; Elliott, Paul; Joffe, Michael

Impact of Environmental Pollution on Health: Balancing Risk

£28.75

ISBN:
9780198526988
Publication Date:
26 Feb 2004
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pages:
288 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 13 - 15 May 2024
Impact of Environmental Pollution on Health: Balancing Risk

Description

This issue forms part of a series of expert reviews on selected health topics in fields where significant new developments are occurring. It is an invaluable reference source and allows those working in other specialities and younger clinicians and scientists to update their knowledge in important and well-defined subject areas.Readership: Non specialists and postgraduate medics

Contents

Global burden of environmental disease ; Methods used to determine environmental health effects - critical assessment of implied risk ; Occupational and environmental asthma ; Pollution and infection in respiratory illness ; Contribution of environmental factors to cancer risk ; Birth disorders and reproductive effects ; Infertility and environmental pollutants ; Environmental effects and skin disease ; Diarrhoeal diseases and environmental pollution ; Contaminants in drinking water ; Ambient air pollution and health ; Indoor air pollution: a global health concern ; Electromagnetic radiation ; Risks associated with ionising radiation ; Pesticides ; Hazards of heavy metal contamination ; Noise pollution: non-auditory effects on health ; Health hazards and waste management

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