Environmental health
Subtitle: emerging issues and practice
By: edited by Jacques Oosthuizen
Publisher: InTech
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rijeka, Croatia
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9789533078540
Subjects: Environmental health; Environmental quality; Industrial hygiene
Description: Environmental health practitioners worldwide are frequently presented with issues that require further investigating and acting upon so that exposed populations can be protected from ill-health consequences. These environmental factors can be broadly classified according to their relation to air, water or food contamination. However, there are also work-related, occupational health exposures that need to be considered as a subset of this dynamic academic field. This book presents a review of the current practice and emerging research in the three broadly defined domains, but also provides reference for new emerging technologies, health effects associated with particular exposures and environmental justice issues. The contributing authors themselves display a range of backgrounds and they present a developing as well as a developed world perspective. This book will assist environmental health professionals to develop best practice protocols for monitoring a range of environmental exposure scenarios.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Part 1. Water Quality; title: Chapter 1. When is Short Sea Shipping Environmentally Competitive? / Harald M. Hjelle and Erik Fridell; title: Chapter 2. Speciation Methods for the Determination of Organotins (OTs) and Heavy Metals (MHs) in the Freshwater and Marine Environments / Peter P. Ndibewu, Rob I. McCrindle and Ntebogeng S. Mokgalaka; title: Chapter 3. Use of Enterococcus, BST and Sterols for Poultry Pollution Source Tracking in Surface and Groundwater / Vesna Furtula, Charlene R. Jackson, Rozita Osman and Patricia A. Chambers; title: Part 2. Air Quality; title: Chapter 4. Understanding Human Illness and Death Following Exposure to Particulate Matter Air Pollution / Erin M. Tranfield and David C. Walker; title: Chapter 5. Traffic-Related Air Pollution: Legislation Versus Health and Environmental Effects / Klara Slezakova, Simone Morais and Maria do Carmo Pereira; title: Chapter 6. Indoor Air Pollutants: Relevant Aspects and Health Impacts / Klara Slezakova, Simone Morais and Maria do Carmo Pereira; title: Chapter 7. The Potential Environmental Benefits of Utilising Oxy-Compounds as Additives in Gasoline, a Laboratory Based Study / Mihaela Neagu (Petre); title: Part 3. Food Safety; title: Chapter 8. Studies on the Isolation of Listeria monocytogenes from Food, Water, and Animal Droppings: Environmental Health Perspective / Nkechi Chuks Nwachukwu and Frank Anayo Orji; title: Part 4. New Technologies; title: Chapter 9. Linkages Between Clean Technology Development and Environmental Health Outcomes in Regional Australia / Susan Kinnear and Lisa K. Bricknell; title: Part 5. Health Impacts; title: Chapter 10. Heavy Metals and Human Health / Simone Morais, Fernando Garcia e Costa and Maria de Lourdes Pereira; title: Chapter 11. Health Impacts of Noise Pollution Around Airports: Economic Valuation and Transferability / Michael Getzner and Denise Zak; title: Chapter 12. Interaction Between Exposure to Neurotoxicants and Drug Abuse / Francisca Carvajal, Maria del Carmen Sanchez-Amate, Jose Manuel Lerma-Cabrera and Inmaculada Cubero; title: Chapter 13. Global Warming and Heat Stress Among Western Australian Mine, Oil and Gas Workers / Joseph Maté and Jacques Oosthuizen; title: Part 6. Environmental Justice; title: Chapter 14. Educating Latina Mothers About U.S. Environmental Health Hazards / Andrea Crivelli-Kovach, Heidi Worley and Tiana Wilson.