Environmental Health Sourcebook
Subtitle: Basic Consumer Health Information About the Environment and Its Effect on Human Health (Health Reference Series)
Edition: 2 Sub edition
Publisher: Omnigraphics
Published: August 2003
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich.
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 650
ISBN-13: 9780780806320
Subjects: Consumer issues; Encyclopaedias & Reference Works; Environmental factors; Family & Health; Health systems & services; Pollution & threats to the environment; Public Health; Health Care Delivery; Consumer Guides To Health Care; Health & Fitness; Medical / Nursing; Health/Fitness; Infectious Diseases; Health Care Issues; Environmental toxicology; Environmental Health; Environmentally induced diseas; Environmentally induced diseases
Table of contents: title: Understanding the health effects of environmental hazards.  Environmental hazards and your health -- Environmental diseases from A to Z -- Asthma and its environmental triggers -- Cancer clusters -- Reducing risk from hazardous waste -- A family guide to environmental health -- Environmental genome project 	-- Environmental public health tracking program -- The Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA) -- Airborne hazards.  An introduction to indoor air quality -- Asbestos : a source of indoor air pollution -- 	Carbon monoxide -- Combustion appliances and indoor air pollution -- Formaldehyde in indoor air -- Mold, moisture, and indoor air quality -- Environmental tobacco smoke -- Air ducts and indoor air quality -- Outdoor air quality : the six common air pollutants -- Acid rain -- Ozone -- Understanding the air quality index -- Waterborne hazards. Drinking water and your health -- Drinking water standards -- Contaminants in drinking water -- Chlorination of drinking water : its benefits and risks -- Lead in drinking water -- MTBE (Methyl-Tert-Butyl Ether) in drinking water -- Drinking water : microbial and disinfection byproducts -- Drinking water from household wells -- Swimming water hazards -- Chemical hazards. Dioxins -- Lead and your health -- Health hazards of malathion -- Health hazards of mercury -- Pesticides -- Protecting people who work with pesticides -- Pesticides and mosquito control -- DEET (N,N-Diethyl-Meta-Toluamide) 	-- Chemical hazards in the workplace -- Multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome (MCS) -- Radiation and electromagnetic field hazards. Understanding the health effects of radiation exposure -- Radon -- Managing radioactive materials and waste -- Microwave oven radiation -- Smoke detectors and radiation -- Television radiation -- Hazards of electric and magnetic fields -- Cell phones and wireless phones : are they safe? Biological hazards. Anthrax -- Botulism -- Brucellosis -- Pneumonic plague -- Smallpox -- Tularemia -- Viral hemorrhagic fevers -- Foodborne hazards. 	Preventing foodborne illness -- Parasites and foodborne illness -- Escherichia coli -- Salmonellosis -- Shigellosis -- Shellfish-associated toxins -- Hepatitis A virus -- Color additives -- Are bioengineered foods safe? -- Environmental hazards to specific populations. Children's environmental health -- Ten tips to protect children from pesticide and lead poisonings around the home -- Women's health and the environment -- Workers and noise hazards -- Prioritizing environmental health threats to older persons -- Environmental health : are minority populations at greater risk? -- Additional help and information. Glossary of environmental health terms -- Environmental agencies and advocate groups -- Environmental resources on the internet -- Environmental hotlines -- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) compliance and enforcement information.