The interactions between risk factors in the environment and human health. Environmental medicine focuses on the causes of disease in an environmental context. The environment creates exposures to many different physical, biological and chemical agents. Environmental exposures may be general such as to UV-irradiation from the sun or specific such as to toxic mushrooms and dioxin. Current concerns in environmental medicine include but are by no means limited to the environmental contributions to cancer, ozone depletion and its effects on health, global warming, air pollution, airborne allergens, water pollution, contaminated sites, nuclear accidents, radon, mercury and cadmium toxicity to the kidney, and food poisoning.
The sum of the total of the elements, factors and conditions in the surroundings which may have an impact on the development, action or survival of an organism or group of organisms.
The environment is as opposed to genetics. We are the product of our genetic inheritance and our environment.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the American government agency charged to "protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment -- air, water, and land -- upon which life depends."
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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
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Chartered Institute of Environmental Health | CIEH
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National Center for Environmental Health: Home | CDC
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NEHA - National Environmental Health Association
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Children's Environmental Health Network
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Center for Healthcare Education
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. Health Care Education Association - HCEA
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Health Care Education SuperSite at Free-Ed.Net
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The Institute For Continuing Healthcare Education
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Welcome to HEIP: Welcome
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