Environmental Health: Fourth Edition / Edition 4

by Dade W. Moeller

Overview

Dramatic changes in the field of environmental health since the Third Edition was published in 2004 demand a new, radically updated version of this essential textbook.

Based on the recommendations of advisory bodies and federal agency regulations, as well as a thorough review of the scientific literature, Moeller’s Fourth Edition is the only fully current text in this burgeoning field. It features new tables and figures, and revisions of those retained from previous editions. Environmental Health is also enriched with the knowledge and insights of professionals who are deeply involved in “real world” aspects of each subject covered.

In eighteen chapters, students receive a complete but manageable introduction to the complex nature of the environment, how humans interact with it, and the mutual impact between people and the environments where they work or live. This new edition emphasizes the challenges students will face in the field: the local and global implications of environmental health initiatives, their short- and long-range effects, their importance to both developing and developed nations, and the roles individuals can play in helping to resolve these problems.

Whether discussing toxicology, injury prevention, risk assessment, and ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, or more traditional subjects like the management and control of air, water, and food, Dade Moeller emphasizes the need for a systems approach to analyzing new projects prior to their construction and operation.

Environmental Health is indispensable reading for practitioners, students, and anyone considering a career in public health.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674047402
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2011
Edition description:	Fourth Edition
Pages:	518
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Dade W. Moeller was Emeritus Professor of Engineering in Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition

Abbreviations

1. The Scope

2. Toxicology

3. Epidemiology

4. The Workplace

5. Air in the Home and Community

6. Food

7. Drinking Water

8. Liquid Waste

9. Solid Waste

10. Rodents and Insects

11. Injury Control

12. Electromagnetic Radiation

13. Environmental Economics

14. Environmental Law

15. Standards

16. Monitoring

17. Risk Assessment

18. Energy

19. Disasters

20. A Global View

References

Credits

Index

Editorial Reviews

Environmental Health compresses a vast subject into a thorough, easily readable, 400+-page survey. Compiled as the syllabus for a course that the author taught at Harvard, this text spans a wide landscape covering subjects as diverse as toxicology, injury control, waste management, epidemiology, and disaster response....For beginning students, individuals considering career paths in environmental health, and anyone simply interested in exploring the field, Environmental Health is an excellent place to begin.

Journal of the American Medical Association

Moeller (Harvard School of Public Health) has given us a broadly accessible survey of personal, indoor, outdoor, and global environmental health issues and developments. A great contribution to an increasingly important and noticed set of problems. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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