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| Introduction | |
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| Birth, Life, Death, and the Environment | |
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| Health and the environment | |
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| Historical Perspective | |
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| Basic requirements for a healthy environment | |
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| Measuring environmental quality, human exposure, and health impact | |
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| Pattern of illness throughout the world | |
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| Impact of environmental factors on health | |
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| Links between environmental and occupational health | |
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| Obstacles to and opportunities for resolving environmental health problems | |
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| Role of the environmental health professional | |
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| Nature of environmental health hazards | |
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| Hazards and risks | |
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| Biological hazards | |
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| Chemical hazards | |
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| Physical hazards | |
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| Mecanical hazards | |
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| Psychosocial hazards | |
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| Risk Assessment | |
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| The health risk assessment and risk management framework | |
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| Epidemiologic methods | |
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| Hazard identification in the field | |
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| Relationship between dose and health outcome | |
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| Human exposure assessment | |
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| Health risk characterization | |
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| Health in Environmental Impact Assessment | |
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| Risk Management | |
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| The approach to managing risk | |
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| Risk evaluation | |
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| Factors affecting the perception and acceptance of risk | |
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| Prevention and control of exposure | |
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| Risk monitoring and use of indicators | |
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| Special problems in managing environmental health risks | |
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| Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis of interventions | |
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| Air | |
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| Overview of air pollution | |
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| Common health effects of ambient air pollution | |
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| Health effects of specific air pollutants | |
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| Industrial air pollution | |
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| Air pollution and the community | |
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| Water and sanitation | |
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| Why water is essential | |
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| Water quality, sanitation, and health | |
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| Adequacy of freshwater supply to meet the world's needs | |
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| Drinking-water quality criteria | |
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| Drinking-water supply and monitoring | |
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| Sanitation: Contol of water pollution | |
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| Recreational water quality guidelines | |
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| Ensuring a safe and sufficient water supply | |
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| Food and agriculture | |
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| Health and nutrition | |
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| Foodborne diseases and food poisoning | |
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| Food quality criteria | |
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| Food quality assurance | |
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| Global food production capacity and food security | |
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| Environmental and occupational health hazards in agriculture | |
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| Human Settlement and urbanization | |
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| The nature and requirements of human settelments | |
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| Housing and health | |
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| Factors causing increased urbanization | |
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| Rural and economic social development | |
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| Urbanization and health | |
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| The "Healthy Cities" approach to prevention | |
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| Healthy and energy use | |
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| Human energy needs | |
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| Biomass fuels | |
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| Fossil fuels | |
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| Hydropower | |
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| Nuclear power | |
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| Alternative energy sources | |
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| Comparing risks | |
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| Priorities for action | |
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| Industrial pollution and chemical safety | |
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| Extent of industrial pollution | |
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| Public exposure from industrial sources | |
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| Hazards by industry | |
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| Major chemical contaminants of concern in the general environment and the workplace | |
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| The social context of occupational health and safety | |
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| Dimensions and types of occupational health problems | |
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| Industrial environmental accidents | |
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| Approaches to prevention | |
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| Transboundary and global health concerns | |
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| Health consequences of war | |
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| Ozone depletion and ultraviolet radiation | |
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| Climate change and the greenhouse effects | |
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| Deforestation and desertification | |
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| Biodiversity | |
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| Acid precipitation | |
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| Transboundary movement of hazardous waste | |
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| Disasters | |
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| Global chemical contamination | |
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| Action to protect health and the environment | |
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| From knowledge to action | |
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| Ethical principles that guide action on environmental health | |
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| Role of environmental health professionals | |
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| Index | |