Occupational and Environmental Health: Recognizing and Preventing Disease and Injury (Levy, Occupational and Envionmental Health) [Paperback]

Barry S. Levy (Editor), David H. Wegman (Editor), Sherry L. Baron (Editor), Rosemary K. Sokas (Editor)

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Publication Date: November 28, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0781755514 | ISBN-13: 978-0781755511 | Edition: Fifth

This thoroughly updated Fifth Edition is a comprehensive, practical guide to recognizing, preventing, and treating work-related and environmentally-induced injuries and diseases. Chapters by experts in medicine, industry, labor, government, safety, ergonomics, environmental health, and psychology address the full range of clinical and public health concerns. Numerous case studies, photographs, drawings, graphs, and tables help readers understand key concepts.

This edition features new chapters on environmental health, including water pollution, hazardous waste, global environmental hazards, the role of nongovernmental organizations in environmental health, and responding to community environmental health concerns. Other new chapters cover conducting workplace investigations and assessing and enforcing compliance with health and safety regulations.

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About the Author

Barry S. Levy, MD, MPH, is Adjunct Professor of Public Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.

David H. Wegman, MD, MSc, is Professor Emeritus, Department of Work Environment, School of Health and Environment, University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Sherry L. Baron, MD, MPH, is Coordinator, Occupational Health Disparities, National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety, Cincinnati, OH.

Rosemary K. Sokas, MD, MOH, is Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 847 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Fifth edition (November 28, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781755514
• ISBN-13: 978-0781755511
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This review is from: Occupational and Environmental Health: Recognizing and Preventing Disease and Injury (Levy, Occupational and Envionmental Health) (Paperback)

This 5th edition is very in depth for medically qualified people active in occupational and therefore also in environmental health. All aspects, medical, social, even political, are fully discussed. Appropriately this sentence is stressed : Screening and monitoring, in and of themselves, prevent nothing; only the appropriate intervention, in response to results of these tests can prevent.
However, nowhere is it precisely stated which results should have an intervention as a result.
I bought this book because my "Industrial Chemical Exposure. Guidelines for Biological Monitoring" by Robert R. Lauwerys and Perrine Hoet. 2nd ed. Lewis, Boca Raton, 1993, looked a bit outdated. I must confess, in my new acquisition I miss pages 290-305 of the old one (16 pages of tables, titled "Biological Monitoring of Chemical Agents", with a column each for 1.Chemical agent 2.Parameter, 3.Biological material, 4. Reference value, 5.Tentative maximal permissible value, 6. Remarks.)

For that kind of data the new text refers to the websites of the CDC, ATSDR, etc. There, it is not that simple to find intervention limits for the hundreds of chemical nuisances.