Essentials of Environmental Health - Couverture souple

Friis, Robert H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0763778907 ISBN 13 : 9780763778903

Editeur : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc, 2011

Synopsis

This best selling text is a clear and comprehensive study of the major topics of environmental health, including Background of the field and tools of the trade environmental epidemiology, environmental toxicology, and environmental policy and regulation. Environmental diseases microbial agents, ionizing and non ionizing radiation. Applications of environmental health water and air quality, food safety, waste disposal, and occupational health. The Second Edition covers new material including: New chapter Chapter 14 on injuries All Web based sources updated throughout to include the most recent information Expanded discussion of the history of environmental health New case study on pandemic influenza H1N1 2009 Coverage of recent environmental controversies, such as use of bisphenol A in plastics

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robert H. Friis, PhD, earned his doctorate from Columbia University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in social epidemiology at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley.'He has had more than three decades of teaching and research experience in epidemiology. Formerly, he was Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Columbia University School of Public Health, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Community Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Assistant Professor of Health Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.'Subsequently, he was Director of the Field Epidemiology Unit at the Orange County (California) Public Health Department. Later he became a faculty member in the Department of Medicine, Department of Neurology, and the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. Currently, he is Professor and Chair of the Health Science Department at California State University, Long Beach, where he has taught introductory epidemiology and biostatistics.'He has been involved in numerous epidemiologic research projects and has published more than 50 professional and scientific articles. He is a member of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and the epidemiology section of the American Public Health Association. He is also Clinical Professor of Community and Environmental Medicine at the University of California, Irvine.''See the author as the "Expert" in Epidemiology in a short video on "Video Jug."'

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0763778907
• ISBN 13: 9780763778903
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 446
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible