Encyclopedia of Environmental Health

ISBN: 9780444639516 出版年：2019 页码：4,940 Elsevier Science_RW

Encyclopedia of Environmental Health, Second Edition presents the newest release in this fundamental reference that updates and broadens the umbrella of environmental health鈥?especially social and environmental health鈥攆or its readers. There is ongoing revolution in governance, policies and intervention strategies aimed at evolving changes in health disparities, disease burden, trans-boundary transport and health hazards. This new edition reflects these realities, mapping new directions in the field that include how to minimize threats and develop new scientific paradigms that address emerging local, national and global environmental concerns.Represents a one-stop resource for scientifically reliable information on environmental healthFills a critical gap, with information on one of the most rapidly growing scientific fields of our timeProvides comparative approaches to environmental health practice and research in different countries and regions of the worldCovers issues behind specific questions and describes the best available scientific methods for environmental risk assessment