Environmental Change and Human Health

Buch | Hardcover

282 Seiten

1993
John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-471-93842-2 (ISBN)

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The object of this symposium was to discuss those aspects of environmental change which might have direct or indirect effects on human health. Issues examined included water pollution, agriculture, nutrition and population growth, genetic disease and exotic tropical diseases.

Environmental Change and Human Health Chairman: Alexander J. B. Zehnder 1993 Many aspects of the global environment are changing now, and will continue to change in the future. There has been much recent interest in the likelihood of systematic changes in weather patterns, with their consequent effects on sea-levels, but some aspects of environmental change, such as pollution, have been a continuing subject of research for many years. Any environmental change can ultimately affect human life, and the object of this Ciba Foundation - EERO symposium was to discuss those aspects of environmental change which might have direct or indirect effects on human health. Summaries of foreseeable environmental changes, including those to climate, sea-level and chemical pollution, are presented. The implications of these changes for human health are then examined in detail. The issues discussed include pollution of air, water and soil, the effects of climate changes on agricultural production, human nutrition and population growth, genetic disease, radiation-induced disease, respiratory disease and exotic tropical diseases, particularly those transmitted by insects.
The effects of deforestation, urbanization and water developments such as irrigation and damming are considered. Problems of global epidemiology are also discussed, as are the special problems facing developing countries. Related Ciba Foundation Symposia: No. 177 Crop protection and sustainable agriculture Chairman: J. C. Zadoks 1993 ISBN 0 471 93944 7 No. 169 Aluminium in biology and medicine Chairman: R. J. P. Williams 1992 ISBN 0 471 93413 5 No. 156 The childhood environment and adult disease Chairman: D. J. P. Barker 1991 ISBN 0 471 92957 3

Partial table of contents:; CO2 and the Greenhouse Effect: Present Assessment and Perspectives (H. Oeschger); Chemical Pollution of the Environment: Past, Present and Future (M. Hoffmann); River Rhine: From Sewer to the Spring of Life (A. Zehnder); Assessing the Greenhouse Effect in Agriculture (R. Rabbinge, et al.); Food Quality and Human Nutrition (W. James); Human Tropical Diseases in a Changing Environment (D. Bradley); Human Respiratory Disease: Environmental Carcinogens and Lung Cancer Risk (J. Kleinjans, et al.); Radiation-Induced Disease (M. Bobrow); Global Epidemiology (P. Elliott); Environmental and Health Problems of Developing Countries (D. Bradley); Evolution and Environmental Change (J. Edwards); Indexes.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.6.1993
Reihe/Serie	Ciba Foundation Symposium ; No. 175
Zusatzinfo	Ill.
Verlagsort	Chichester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	560 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	0-471-93842-4 / 0471938424
ISBN-13	978-0-471-93842-2 / 9780471938422
Zustand	Neuware