environmental health

Presents a series of accounts on the successes and failures of the struggle against environmental pollution.

Explores how changes in the natural environment caused by humans is connected to recent epidemics of modern diseases. Discusses West Nile virus, mad cow disease, HIV/AIDS, Lyme disease, and SARS. Addresses how humans are creating and spreading the diseases and what measures should be taken to manage the diseases' power.

Explains how scientists evaluate the health hazards of environmental pollutants, presenting case histories that describe the investigation of specific dangers about which there has been controversy, including radon radiation, toxic waste dumps, air pollution, pesticides, arsenic in drinking water, and electromagnetic fields.

Examines health around the world, discussing malnutrition, the history of health care, common diseases and illnesses in developed and developing countries, and the outlook for overcoming issues related to health-related crises.

A realistic program for coping with the environmental hazards in our daily lives. Combines the latest medical and scientific information.

Discusses the problem of noise pollution, ranging from the annoyance level to that of a dangerous health hazard in modern society, and describes solutions made possible by noise reduction technology and changes in public health laws.

Provides basic health information about the environment and its effect on human health, including the effects of air pollution, water pollution, hazardous chemicals, food hazards, radiation hazards, biological agents, and household hazards.