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Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is a peer-reviewed open access journal published monthly with support from the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). The primary purposes of EHP are to communicate recent scientific findings and trends in the environmental health sciences; to improve the environmental health ...
Environmental health policy is governmental action intended to prevent exposure to environmental hazards or to "eliminate the effects of exposure to environmental hazards". [1] There are several environmental policy goals that contribute to health. These include clean air and water, sanitation and hygiene, safe use of chemicals, workplace ...
The Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program (TEHIP) [87] is a comprehensive toxicology and environmental health web site, that includes open access to resources produced by US government agencies and organizations, and is maintained under the umbrella of the Specialized Information Service at the United States National Library ...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) conducts research into the effects of the environment on human disease, as one of the 27 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is located in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, and is the only primary division of the NIH located outside of ...
Her most recognized research has projected the health impacts, including respiratory and cardiovascular health, and global mortality impacts, as a result of smoke exposure from wildfires. [2] [3] [4] The research on global mortality impacts was the culmination of her post doctorate work and brought wildfire smoke into perspective on the global ...
Environmental health ethics is a field of study that combines environmental health policies and ethical consideration towards a mutually acceptable goal. Given the myriad of environmental issues facing society today a sound ethical background can be applied in an attempt to reach a compromise between conflicting interests, like anthropocentrism, global stewardship, religious values, economic ...
Jonathan Alan Patz is an American academic who is a professor and John P. Holton Chair of Health [1] and the Environment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he serves as Director of the Global Health Institute. [2] Patz also holds appointments in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Population Health ...
Environmental epidemiology is a branch of epidemiology concerned with determining how environmental exposures impact human health. [1] This field seeks to understand how various external risk factors may predispose to or protect against disease, illness, injury, developmental abnormalities, or death. These factors may be naturally occurring or ...