Environmental health professionals are concerned
with all the factors, circumstances, and conditions in the surroundings
of humans that can exert an influence on human health. One branch
of environmental health, occupational health, deals specifically
with the industrial setting. Environmental and Occupational Health
is a broad discipline that covers diverse areas such as toxicology,
industrial hygiene, environmental hygiene, environmental policy,
occupational and environment medicine, sanitation, and epidemiology.
Environmental and occupational health specialists
are employed in various public health settings: regulatory agencies
such as the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), Agency for
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), Occupational
Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), World Bank, and National
Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), World
Health Organization, and state, county and city health departments;
industry; consulting companies; occupational medicine groups;
schools and universities; and many other non-governmental organizations
that deal with environmental health issues.
For more information on the field of environmental
and occupational health, you might want to review the following
sources:
-
Nadakavukaren, A. (1994) Man
and Environment: A Health Perspective, Prospect Heights,
IL: Waveland Press.
- Bassett, W.H. ed. (1993) Clay's Handbook
of Environmental Health, New York, Chapman and Hall.
- Koren, H. (1991) Handbook of Environmental
Health and Safety: principles and practices, Chelsea,
MI, Lewis Publishers.
- DiNardi, 2nd. (2003) The Occupational Environment:
Its Evaluation and Control, American Industrial Hygiene Association,
Fairfax, VA.
- Kreisel, W. (1990) Environmental Health
in the 1990s - Affecting Change, Environmental Health,
98 (3).
- Amdur, M.O., Doull, J., Klaassen, C.D. ed. (1991)
Casarett and Doull's Toxicology, New Yourk, Pergamon
Press.
Journals frequently used by environmental and
occupational health professional:
- Environmental Perspectives
- American Journal of Public Health
- Archives of Environmental Health
- Journal of Occupational Medicine
- Journal of Environmental Health
- American Journal of Epidemiology
- American Industrial Hygiene Journal
- Journal of Applied Occupational and Environmental
Hygiene
- Journal of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
- Environment
- Science
- Environmental Research
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