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Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health. To effectively control factors that may affect health, the requirements that must be met to create a healthy environment must be determined. [ 1] The major sub-disciplines of environmental health are ...
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 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 ...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health —published by MDPI in Switzerland. Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part C, published by Taylor & Francis. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, published by Taylor & Francis.
Health ecology. Conceptual map illustrating the connections among nonhuman nature, ecosystem services, environmental ethics, environmental justice, and public health. Health ecology (also known as eco-health) is an emerging field that studies the impact of ecosystems on human health. It examines alterations in the biological, physical, social ...
Environment, health and safety (EHS; or health, safety and environment –HSE–, or safety, health and environment –SHE–) is an interdisciplinary field focused on the study and implementation of practical aspects environmental protection and safeguard of people's health and safety, especially at company level and in an occupational context.
There are several environmental policy goals that contribute to health including clean air and water, sanitation and hygiene, safe use of chemicals, workplace safety, health-supportive built environment, and sustainable agriculture. [2] Environmental health risk factors include: climate change, air and water pollution, some chemicals and ...
In 1966, U.S. Surgeon General William H. Stewart helped to create a Division of Environmental Health Sciences within the NIH. [7] Three years later, the division became its own institute, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. [8] Past directors include Paul Kotin, David Rall, Kenneth Olden, David A. Schwartz, and Linda ...