Encyclopedia of Environmental Health, Five-Volume Set

Built Environment and Mental Health

Urban environments and health

Children's Environmental Health in Developing Countries

Issues and Challenges for determining environmental risk factors and causes of disease among children

Children's Exposure to Environmental Agents

Children's Health Risk Assessment: Issues and Approaches

Critical Windows of Children's Development and Susceptibility to environmental toxins

Developmental Immunotoxicants

Effect of Early Exposure on Reproductive Outcomes

Developmental Programming and the Epigenome

Evidence for Endocrine Disruption in Children: Sensitive Developmental Endpoints

Environmental Chemicals and Childhood Cancer

Environmental Factors in Children's Asthma and Respiratory Effects

Environmental Chemicals in Breast Milk

Children's environmental health: General overview

Neurodevelopmental Toxicants

Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Considerations in Children's Human Health Risk Assessment

Biomarkers in Environmental Carcinogenesis

Cancer Risk Assessment and Communication

Endocrine disrupting chemicals and human cancer

Environmental Lung Cancer Epidemiology

Environmental Carcinogens and Regulation

Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Cancer

Occupational Cancer: Modern History

Mechanisms of Environmental Carcinogenesis

Polymorphism and Gene-Environment interactions in Environmental Cancer

Groundwater and Soil Pollution: Bioremediation

Fate and transport of microbial contaminates

Arsenic: Occurrence in groundwater

On-site Wastewater Treatment

Remediation of aquatic post-industrial inorganic pollutants

Community Outdoor Air Quality: Sources, exposure agents and health outcomes

Air Pollution Episodes

Long-range transport and deposition of air pollution

Short term effects of air pollution on health

Assessment of human exposure to air pollution

Long-term effects of Particulate air pollution on human health

Measurement of Air Pollutants

Respiratory and cardiovascular effects of NO2 in epidemiological studies

PM2.5 sources and their effects on human health in China: Case Report

Sulfur oxides: Sources, exposures and health effects

Toxic organic air pollutants

Environment, genetic and epigenetic alterations and pediatric central nervous system tumors

Epigenetic changes induced by environment and diet in cancer

Malformations of Cortical Development and Epilepsy in Children

Gene-environment interactions in human traits

Gene-environment interactions in neurodegenerative diseases

Stress Axis as the Locus of Gene-Environment Interactions in Major Depressive Disorder

Vulnerability to Parkinson's Disease: Towards an Unifying Theory of Disease Etiology

Genetics is involved in everything, but not everything is Genetic

Acute radiation sickness from Chernobyl

Immunological effects of the Chernobyl accident

Radiation exposures due to the Chernobyl accident

Thyroid cancer associated with the Chernobyl Accident

Exposure guidelines and radon policy

An Overview on Health Effects of Radon

Indoor Radon prevention and mitigation

Residential radon levels around the world

Radon measurement

Carcinogenicity of Disinfection ByProducts in Laboratory Animals

Carcinogenicity of Disinfection ByProducts in Humans - Epidemiological Studies

Comparative mammalian cell Cytotoxicity and Genotoxicity

Human Exposure Assessment for DBPs: Factors Influencing Blood Trihalomethane Levels

Genotoxicity of Disinfection By-products: Comparison to Carcinogenicity

Modeling Exposure to Disinfection ByProducts

Reproductive and Developmental effects of Exposure to disinfection byproducts in humans

Toxicokinetics of Disinfection By-Products

Exposure Modeling and Measurement - Exposure Factors

Frequency and Timing of Environmental Exposure

Assessing human exposure to environmental toxicants

Models of Human Exposure to Environmental Contaminants

Exposure Reconstruction using Space-Time Information Technology

Exposure Science: Pharmacokinetic Modeling

Exposure Science - Contaminant Mixtures

Fate and Transport - Geostatistics and Environmental Contaminants

Exposure Science: Monitoring Environmental Contaminants

Exposure Science: Ingestion

Exposure Science: Inhalation

Air pollution and development of children's pulmonary function

Ethics in pediatric environmental health research

Lead and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Lead exposure and caries in children

Lead, delinquency and violence

Prenatal exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs)

Prenatal Exposure to Industrial Chemicals and Pesticides and Effects on Neurodevelopment

1976 Trichlorophenol Reactor Explosion at Seveso, Italy

Connecting environmental stress to cancer cell biology through the neuroendocrine response

Cigarette Smoke, DNA Damage Repair, and Human Health

Functional Genomics and Molecular Analysis of a Subtropical Harmful Algal Bloom Species, Karenia brevis

Estrogenic Chemicals and Cardiovascular Disease

Gene-Environment Interactions and Childhood Cancer

Drosophila as a model for Toxicogenomics of Lead

Mineral and fuel extraction: Health consequences

Volcanic and geothermal processes: Health effects

Human health and the state of the pedosphere

Infectious processes and medical geology

Principles of Medical Geology

Impact of natural dusts on human health

Toxicological pathways of relevance to medical geology

Climate change and health

Land use change and human health

Oceans and human health

Overview of how ecosystem changes can affect human health

Stratospheric Ozone

Vulnerable populations and regions

Policy Responses to Climate Change

Entomological Risks of Genetically Engineered Crops

Labelling of genetically modified foods

Global energy sources and trends

Mobile Source Related Air Pollution: Effects on Health and the Environment

Nuclear energy and human health

Power generation and human health

Biological pathways between the social environment and health

Disabling environments

Global development and population health

Economic Inequality and Health in the Age of Globalization

Life course epidemiology and inequality in health

Neighbourhood ?social infrastructure' for health - the role of social capital, fear of crime and area reputation

Political and social violence; health effects

Sense of coherence and social structure

Social capital and its links to health

Social support and social networks

Cellular Stress Responses to DNA Damage: An intracellular balance between life, senescence, and death

Clinical Consequences of Radiation Exposure

Genome Effects and Mutational Risk of Radiation

Impact of Mass Casualties Resulting from Radiation Exposure on Healthcare Systems

Magnetic fields: Possible Environmental health effects

Microwaves: Exposure and Potential Health Consequences

Radio frequency electromagnetic fields: Health effects

Ionizing Radiation Exposure: Psychological and Mental Health Aspects

Risk of Radiation Exposure to Children and Their Mothers

Risk to Populations Exposed from Atmospheric Testing and Those Residing Near Nuclear Facilities

Ultraviolet exposure: Health effects

New Molecular Aspects of Ultraviolet-induced Immunosuppression

Ultraviolet - ocular effects

Ultraviolet radiation protection

ultraviolet radiation and the skin

Application of Healthy Life Year Measures to Environmental Health Issues

Valuing the Health Impacts of Air Emissions

Composite Measures of the Environmental Burden of Disease at the Global Level

WHO-QOL Instrument and Environmental Health Assessment

Understanding Environmental Quality Through Quality of Life (QOL) Studies

Urban environmental quality: perceptions and measures

Use of Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL) for Risk Assessment at Hazardous Waste Sites

Benefits and limitations of the precautionary principle

Nucleic Acids: Environmental Chemistry, Structures and Interactions as Revealed by Computational Studies

Environmental Epidemiology and Human Health - Biomarkers of Disease and Genetic Susceptibility.

Nutrigenomics - A New Frontier in Environmental Health Sciences

Genome-Based Drug Design

Metal-Induced Toxicologic Pathology : Human Exposure and Risk Assessment

Objectivity and ethics in environmental health science

Toxicoproteomic Applications to Environmental Health and Diseases

Biotechnology and Advances Environmental Health Research

Modulation of Human Mobile Elements and Genetic Instability by Environmental Factors

Noise and health - Annoyance and interference

Cardiovascular effects of Noise

Effects of low frequency noise and vibrations: Environmental and occupational perspectives

Mental health effects of noise

Sleep disturbance in adults by noise

Sleep disturbance in children by noise

Community noise disease burden - DALYs may be the answer, but what is the question?

Environmental noise

Measuring noise for health impact assessment

Combined noise exposure at home

Combined Exposures to Noise and Chemicals at Work

Noise management - International regulations

Noise management - soundscape approach

Noise and cognition in children

Assessing Indoor Air Quality

Productivity and Health Effects of High Indoor Air Quality

Sick Building Syndrome

Perceptions and Physiological Responses to Indoor Air Quality

Ventilation

Drinking Water Distribution Systems: Their Role in Reducing Risks and Protecting Public Health

Distribution of Water: Developing Countries

Disinfection By-Products: Formation and Occurrence of Drinking Water

Water-related Diseases in the Developing World

Essential nature of water for health, water as part of the dietary intake for nutrients and the role of water in hygiene

Empirical models to predict disinfection by-products (DBPs) in drinking water

Microbes and Water Quality in Developed Countries

Integrated management of source water quantity and quality for human health in a changing world

Worldwide regulatory strategies and policies for drinking water

Cardiotoxicology

Mechanisms of immune modulation by xenobiotics

Liver toxicology

Chemically-Induced Respiratory Toxicities

Neurotoxicology

Pancreatic toxicology

Developmental and Reproductive Toxicity of TCDD, Lead and Mercury

Splenic toxicology

Optimal pollution: the welfare economic approach to correct market failures

General introduction to valuation of human health risks

Global Burden of Disease (GBD) approach and the use of Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY) at the World Health Organization (WHO)

Monetary valuation of greenhouse gases

Environmental and health costs in the European Union: Policy-making

Monetary valuation of trace pollutants

Valuation of children's health impacts

Air transportation and human health

Itai-itai disease

Minamata disease

Environmental Health Issues for Railroads

Shipping and maritime transport

Automobile exhaust: Detrimental effects on pulmonary and extrapulmonary tissues and offspring

Health issues of travellers

Urban transportation and human health

Urban Health: An Overview

Physical urban environment

Urban Social Environment

Sri Lanka: Acute poisoning by pesticides in the country

Air pollution and lung cancer risks

Diabetes Mellitus in Albania: A two fold increase in the last decade

Algal particles in the atmosphere

Cyanobacterial Toxins in Fresh Waters

Bioavailable Aluminum: Its Metabolism and Effects on the Environment

Antibiotics Pollution in Soil and Water: Potential Ecological and Human Health Issues

Aquaculture Effluent: Impacts and Remedies for Protecting the Environment and Human Health

Aral Sea: An Ecological Disaster Zone with Impact on Human Health

Leishmaniasis and environment in Argentina: an eco-epidemiological approach

Arsenic exposure from seafood consumption

Arsenic in groundwater of India

Arsenic Pollution of Groundwater in Bangladesh

Asbestos exposure and autoimmune disease

Housing-related health Hazards: Assessment and Remediation

Avian influenza viruses: Environmental influence

Bahama Archipelago: Environment and health

Beryllium: Environmental geochemistry and health effects

Bhopal Gas Catastrophe 1984: Causes and consequences

Bioaccessibility of trace metals in household dust

Bioaerosols in apartment buildings

Ecosystem changes, biodiversity loss and human well-being

Biological Agents and Infectious Diseases in War and Terrorism

Biomarkers in Population Studies: environmental mutagenesis and risk for cancer

Biomass smoke and infection: mechanisms of interaction

Residential and non-residential biomass combustion: impacts on air quality

Hair for biomonitoring of environmental exposures

Toenails for Biomonitoring of Environmental Exposures

Biosolids: human health impacts

Environmental Health and Bioterrorism

Bismuth: Environmental pollution and health effects

Bolivia: Mining, River Contamination, and Human Health

Boron: Environmental Exposure and Human Health

Cadmium Exposure in the Environment: Renal Effects and the Benchmark Dose

Cadmium exposure from seafood intake

Cadmium neurotoxicity

Mexican epidemiological paradox: A developing country with a burden of " richness" diseases

Chagas Disease: Environmental risk factors

Chemical warfare agents

Environmental Health Ethics in Study of Children

Cholera: Environmental risk factors

Chromium: Environmental pollution, health effects and mode of action

Volcanogenic contaminants: Chronic exposure

Clinical waste management

Colombia: Environmental Health Issues

Physical and social environmental influences on asthma and asthma disparities

Global life cycle impacts of consumer products

Greenland: Contaminants and dietary factors in health of the country

Sustainable management of agricultural systems: physical and biological aspects of soil health

Cryptosporidiosis: An update

Cumulative environmental risk

DDT and reproductive health

Desertification

Dioxins

Spain: Natural Hazards in the Country

Methodologies for Assessing Bioaerosol Exposures

Economic Analysis of Health Impacts in Developing Countries

China: Economic impacts of air pollution in the country

Ecosystems services

Fluoride in drinking water: Effect on liver and kidney function

Cooking: Effects on Dietary Exposure to Arsenic from Rice and Vegetables

Persistent organohalogen pollutants and phthalates: effects on male reproductive function

Electromagnetic fields: Environmental exposure

Industrial Livestock Production Facilities: Airborne Emissions

Environment and Health of Rural Women

Neighborhood Environment, Physical Activity and Obesity

Advances in analytical methods for the determination of pharmaceutical residues in waters and wastewaters

Shooting ranges: Environmental contamination

Benzene: Environmental exposure

Manganese: Environmental exposure

Environmental factors in obesity

Climate change, environmental health, and human rights

Antarctic: Persistent Organic Pollutants and Environmental health in the region

Environmental Health Practice - Environmental Medicine

Environmental Health Tracking

Environmental Pollution and human health in ancient times

Lead exposure and female infertility

Asthma: Environmental risk factors

Legionnaire's Disease: Environmental risk factors

Maternal and child health disparities: Environmental contribution

Environmental specimen bank for human tissues

Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Health Risk Assessment

Water Consumption and Implications for Exposure Assessment

Cockroach allergens: Exposure risk and health effects

DDT: Health effects

Depleted uranium: Exposure and possible health effects

Pharmaceuticals in drinking water

Mercury in fish: Human health risks

Methods for estimating exposure to metals in drinking water

Extreme temperatures and mortality

Fertilizers

Floriculture

Fluorosis

Dust Production Following Forest Disturbances: Health risks

Gallium: Environmental pollution and health effects

Gender and disasters

Gender differences in cancer incidence

Germanium: Environmental pollution and health effects

Ghana: Environmental health issues

Urban planning, the natural environment, and public health

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)

Gold and amalgams: Environmental pollution and health effects

Hantavirus

Natural Health Products (NHPs)

Dioxins: Health effects

Mining activities: Health impacts

Solid waste incinerators: Health impacts

Ambient concentrations of acrolein: Health risks

Heat wave and mortality of the elderly

Heterotrophic bacteria in bottled water

Hong Kong: Particulate Air Pollution and Health Impacts

How Hormesis Will Change the Risk Assessment Process

Hydrogen sulfide: Integrative Analysis of Acute Toxicity Data for Estimating Human Health Risk

Immune response to environmental exposure

Cadmium and the welfare of animals

Indonesia: Threats to the country's biodiversity

Neighborhoods and Birth Outcomes

Infectious/Medical//Hospital Waste: General Characteristics

Inhaled woodsmoke

Insect Repellents: Assessment of Health Risks

Environmental Justice and Interventions to Prevent Environmental Injustice in the United States

Irrigation Strategies for Sustainable Environmental and Influence on Human Health

Jamaica: Heavy metals in the natural and anthropic environments

Jordan: Environmental Status of Water, Soil and Air

Malaria, bilharzia and geo-helminth transmission in Kenya: Environmental determinants.

Kuwait - Before and after the Gulf War

International Environmental Agreements and Environmental Health

Land Quality: Environmental and Human Health Effects

Land disposal of wastes

Lebanon: Health Valuation of Water Pollution at the Upper Litani River Basin

The Leishmaniases

Globalization and Environmental Health

Global Climate Changes and International Trade and Travel: Effects on Human Health Outcomes

Human Health Link to Invasive Species

Intercontinental Air Pollution Transport: Links to environmental health

Lithium: Environmental pollution and health effects

REACH and Human Health in Lithuania

Magnesium and Calcium in Drinking Water and Heart Diseases

Malaysia: Environmental health issues

Manganese: Environmental Pollution and Health Effects

Medical Anthropology

Dental amalgam fillings: a source of mercury exposure

Microbial risks associated with biogas and biodigestor sludge

Molybdenum in the Environment and its Relevance for Animal and Human Health

Mozambique: environment and health in one of the world's poorest nations

Landslides: Human health effects

Mutagenicity of PM2.5

Nanotechnology: Human Safety Issues, Research Gaps and Potential Beneficial Opportunities

Nanomaterials: Potential Ecological Uses and Effects

Neighborhoods and environmental determinants of infectious diseases

Effects of neighbourhood environment on social and physical functioning in older age

Nigeria: Environmental Health Concerns

Drinking Water Nitrate and Health

Nitrate and nitrite in drinking water: A toxicological review

Radiological and Depleted Uranium Weapons: Environmental and Health Consequences

Giardia and Cryptosporidium: Occurrence in water supplies

Trade, Trade Agreements and the Environment

Oil and chemical spills

Oil spills

Organophosphate insecticides: neurodevelopmental effects

Electronic waste and Human Health

Management and Export of Wastes: Human Health Implications

Challenges in Pesticide Risk Communication

Palladium: Exposure, Uses and Human Health Effects

Indoor air pollution attributed to solid fuel use for heating and cooking and cancer risk

PCBs

Perchlorate: Origin and Occurrence in Drinking Water

Perchlorate: Human toxicity

Personal Care Products and Breast Cancer

Pesticide exposure and diabetes

Pesticide exposure and human cancer

Pesticides and Thyroid Hormones

Pesticide poisoning in Brazil

Pesticides: Human Health Effects

Pets as sentinels of human exposure

Physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling and risk assessment

Platinum: Environmental pollution and health effects

Plutonium: Environmental pollution and health effects

Organochlorines and the effect on female reproductive system

Psychobiological factors in environmental health

Phthalates: Human exposure

Pyrethroids

Uranium: Toxicity to renal cells and osteoblasts

Plants as a tool for the environmental health assessment

Recreational exposure to cyanobacteria

Renal and Neurological Effects Heavy Metals in the Environment

Mercury toxicity

Cancer risks from residential exposure to pesticides

Food Safety and Risk Analysis

Risk Management in Environmental Health Decision

Road traffic injuries

SARS

Cyanotoxins in Egypt and Saudi Arabia

Forest transition and zoonoses risk

Ecohealth: Health impacts of floods

Sierra Leone: Environmental health Concerns

Nano Silver: Environmental Health Effects

Singapore: Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants and Human Health Risks

Soil quality criteria for environmental pollutants

Spatial mapping and environmental risk identification

Strontium in the environment and possible human health effects

Taiwan: Environmental health concerns

Take-home route of pesticide exposure

Thallium: Environ pollution and health effects

Thermal Stress

Tin: Environmental pollution and health

Nanoscale titanium dioxide: Environmental health and ecotoxicological effects

Tungsten: Environ pollution and health effects

Tunisia: Salinization and Sustainability of Agriculture

Uganda: Environmental Health concerns

UN Convention to combat Desertification

Biodiversity and the Loss of Biodiversity effecting Human Health

UN Convention on Wetlands (RAMSAR): Implications for Human Health

Environmental Justice: an international perspective

Uranium: Environ pollution and health effects

Animal and human waste as components of urban dust pollution: Health implications

Uruguay: Environmental conditions in the coast of Montevideo: historical aspects, present status and perspectives of habitat degradation and uses

Vanadium: Environmental pollution and health effects

Vector borne disease and climate change

Vehicular exhausts

Volcanoes and human health

Water hardness and risk of death from coronary heart disease

Waterborne disease surveillance

Weather, pollen concentrations and allergic rhinitis

West Nile virus

Zinc deficiency in human health

Zinc toxicity in humans

Parasite Zoonoses

Oxidation-antioxidation-reduction processes in the cell: Impacts of environmental pollution

Diverse Options for Diverse Environmental Health Engineering Needs: Rationale, Technologies and Practices

Small Scale Industries and Informal Sector Activity Premises: Environmental and occupational health issues

Physical Infrastructure Service and Environmental Health Deficiencies in Urban and Peri-urban Areas

Prioritizing Community Environmental and Health Needs: Novel Approaches and Methods

Perfluorinated substances

Environmental justice - Social disparities in environmental exposures and health. Overview

Social Environment: Overview

Tuberculosis

Schistosomiasis

Epidemiology of Infectious Diarrhea

Shigellosis

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Landscape Epidemiology of Human Onchocerciasis in Southern Venezuela

Air Pollution from Solid fuels

Solid fuel: Health effects

Fluorine - human health risks

Mycotoxins in foods

Mycotoxins: Natural food chain contaminants and human health

Transportation and Health: The Impact of Commuting

Environmental Justice: An Overview

Iodine in the Environment

Respiratory effects of chlorination products

Indoor Air Pollution: Unusual sources

Assessing Regulatory Costs and Benefits

First Do No Harm: An Environmental Health Context

Pharmaceuticals: Environmental effects

Bioavailable Aluminum: Its Effects on Human Health

Solid Fuel Use: Health Effect

Household Energy Solutions in Developing Countries

Diet as a healthy and cost-effective instrument in environmental protection

Retrospective dosimetry and dose reconstruction of ionizing radiation

Mercury in air

Erionite and its Health Effects

Respiratory Effects of Short Term Peak Exposures to Sulfur Dioxide

Climate change and health: Risks and adaptive strategies

Substandard housing: The social dimension of environmental health

Carbon Sequestration and Agriculture

Lyme Disease

Malaria as an Environmental Disease

Oil industry and the health of communities in the Niger delta of Nigeria