Basic Environmental Health [Hardcover]

Annalee Yassi (Author), Tord Kjellstrï¿1/2m (Author), Theo de Kok (Author), Tee Guidotti (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 2001 | ISBN-10: 019513558X | ISBN-13: 978-0195135589 | Edition: 1

This comprehensive interdisciplinary text draws from the social sciences, the natural sciences and the health sciences to introduce students to the principles and methods applied in environmental health. It presents an overview of the basic sciences needed to understand environmental health hazards, including toxicology, microbiology, health physics, injury analysis and relevant psychosocial concepts. It also presents a basic approach to risk assessment and risk management. The first part of the book concentrates on broad issues, providing frameworks for the investigation and management of environmental health problems. The middle section deepens the discussion of routes of exposure (air quality, water and sanitation, food and agricultural issues). The final section addresses environmental health from sustainable development themes (settlements and urbanization, energy, industry, and global concerns). The final chapter focuses on ethical issues and action planning. Thus, the text aims to enhance knowledge, skills and attitudes in environmental health.

Editorial Reviews

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"This book is an excellent overview of environmental health, with a smidgen of occupational health and a hint of the social, behavioural and cultural components that play such an important part in all, or almost all, environmental health problems.... These four highly regarded authorities on environmental health have covered the basics and a little bit more very comprehensively....The book is up-to-date in all respects, well illustrated with examples of many kinds of environmental health problems and with many useful tables, line diagrams and boxed highlights....This is an ideal introductory text for courses in environmental health in medical schools and for graduate students who require a comprehensive introduction to the subject. I recommend it unreservedly."--John Last, MD, FRACP, FRCPC, University of Ottawa, Annals of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

"Basic Environmental Health succeeds in conveying key concepts and methods widely regarded as pillars of environmental health science..."--Environment

About the Author

Annalee Yassi is a Professor and Director of the Occupational and Environmental Health Unit, University of Manitoba. Tord Kjellstrom is a Director, Office of Global and Integrated Environmental Health, World Health Organization. Theo de Kok is at the Open University of the Netherlands. Tee Guidotti is a Professor of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 456 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (March 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 019513558X
• ISBN-13: 978-0195135589
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #556,267 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars basic Environmental Health, January 11, 2006

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Oladele A. Ogunseitan (Irvine, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Basic Environmental Health (Hardcover)

Environmental health is a primary concern of many university teaching and research curricula within a variety of academic degree programs that usually include the word "environmental' such as biology, engineering, ethics, law, management, medicine, planning, politics, and sociology. Therefore, it is difficult to write a textbook that coherently captures the essence of the methods and applications used in all of these disciplines.

In three sections, Basic Environmental Health succeeds in conveying key concepts and methods widely regarded as pillars of environmental-health science--namely, the survey of environmental risk factors, human exposure assessment, and source characterization and mitigation. A unique feature that is rarely found in older introductory books on environmental health is the section on sustainable development, which includes chapters on urbanization, energy, industry, and global concerns. This wider approach owes much to the book's sponsorship by a coalition of international agencies including the World Health Organization, the United Nations Environment Programme, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and the Conference of European University Rectors.

Each chapter begins with a set of learning objectives and ends with a set of challenging study questions. Special case studies, definitions, and emerging paradigms are highlighted in accessible boxes throughout the book. Teachers will appreciate the supplementary materials, including a guide with interactive exercises, a chart book, and a set of transparency slides.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great overview of Environmental Health, October 7, 2011

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S. Villavicencio - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Basic Environmental Health (Hardcover)

When I took "Environmental and Occupational Health" (EOH) for my master's in public health, this book provided the background for learning this broad course in a matter of 3 months. If I did not have this book while taking the EOH class, I would not have gotten an A. If you want an A in EOH, you should use this book.

3.0 out of 5 stars Excellent but old, November 22, 2008

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K. Atreya - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Basic Environmental Health (Hardcover)

The book is excellent for theoritical part of the environmental health, however the data provided are now old. It is indeed urgency if the authors initiate to publish new edition.