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2f - Environment

Environment Index

Author: Dr Paul Wilkinson, 2009, revised by Helen Crabbe and Rebecca Close (2016)

Use the table of contents below to find a particular chapter, or click on the first chapter to begin. You can move backwards and forwards through the chapters/sub-chapters using the links at the bottom of each page. You can also jump back to the table of contents at any time clicking the "2f - Environment" link at the top of the window.

  • Environmental determinants of disease
  • Risk and hazard
  • The effects of global warming and climate change
  • Principles of sustainability
  • The health problems associated with poor housing and home conditions, inadequate water supplies, flooding, poor sanitation and water pollution
  • Methods for monitoring and control of environmental hazards (including food and water safety, atmospheric pollution and other toxic hazards, noise, and ionising and electromagnetic radiation) and cluster investigations
  • The use of legislation in environmental control
  • Appreciation of factors affecting health and safety at work (including the control of substances hazardous to health)
  • Occupation and health
  • Transport policies and health impact assessment for environmental pollution ; air pollution
  • Chemical incident management

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  • Environmental determinants of disease

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