Impact of environmental pollution on health : balancing risk
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Impact of environmental pollution on health : balancing risk
(British medical bulletin, 68)
Published for the British Council by Oxford University Press, 2003
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This issue forms part of a series of expert reviews on selected health topics in fields where significant new developments are occurring. It is an invaluable reference source and allows those working in other specialities and younger clinicians and scientists to update their knowledge in important and well-defined subject areas.Readership: Non specialists and postgraduate medics
Table of Contents
- Global burden of environmental disease
- Methods used to determine environmental health effects - critical assessment of implied risk
- Occupational and environmental asthma
- Pollution and infection in respiratory illness
- Contribution of environmental factors to cancer risk
- Birth disorders and reproductive effects
- Infertility and environmental pollutants
- Environmental effects and skin disease
- Diarrhoeal diseases and environmental pollution
- Contaminants in drinking water
- Ambient air pollution and health
- Indoor air pollution: a global health concern
- Electromagnetic radiation
- Risks associated with ionising radiation
- Pesticides
- Hazards of heavy metal contamination
- Noise pollution: non-auditory effects on health
- Health hazards and waste management
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