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  1. Environmental Health (The Exposome)

    The exposome concept was introduced by Christopher Wild, a molecular epidemiologist, in 2005. He defined it as the totality of life-course...
    Living reference work entry 2024
  2. Racism as a public health issue in environmental health disparities and environmental justice: working toward solutions

    Background

    Environmental health research in the US has shown that racial and ethnic minorities and members of low-socioeconomic groups, are...

    Sharon Beard, Kenda Freeman, ... Darlene Dixon in Environmental Health
    Article Open access 22 January 2024
  3. Environmental Determinants of Health

    Several modifiable environmental factors, such as outdoor air pollution, household air pollution, drinking water contamination, occupational exposure...
    Michelle Del Rio, Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson in Chronic Illness Care
    Chapter 2023
  4. Epigenetics and environmental health

    Epigenetic modifications including DNA methylation, histone modifications, chromatin remodeling, and RNA modifications complicate gene regulation and...

    Min Zhang, Ting Hu, ... Yan Wang in Frontiers of Medicine
    Article 28 May 2024
  5. Environmental and Health Impacts

    The environmental and health impacts of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are well-researched across the world. Their long-range transportation,...
    Tripti Arora, Piyush Mohapatra, ... Kriti Akansha in Managing Persistent Organic Pollutants in India
    Chapter 2023
  6. Health-Oriented Environmental Categories, Individual Health Environments, and the Concept of Environment in Public Health

    The term ‘environment’ is not uniformly defined in the public health sciences, which causes crucial inconsistencies in research, health policy, and...

    Annette K. F. Malsch, Anton Killin, Marie I. Kaiser in Health Care Analysis
    Article Open access 29 January 2024
  7. Advances and perspectives in environmental health research in China

    Environmental health research aims to identify environmental conditions suitable for the healthy living and reproduction of human beings. Through the...

    Tong Zhu, Yingjun Liu, ... Mei Zheng in Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering
    Article Open access 10 May 2024
  8. Environmental Justice and Health in Nigeria

    Purpose of Review

    The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) identified 17 goals to achieve by the year 2030, with many of these goals...

    Article 23 April 2024
  9. Environmental Health and Its Effects on Health Equity

    Environmental and occupational health is a vital component of hospital-based care and environmental exposures disproportionately affect racial and...
    Chapter 2023
  10. Environmental Exposures and Health

    Environmental exposures are one of the main causes of ill health causing from 16 to 23% of all deaths and 22% of morbidity in the world. This is...
    Roberto Bertollini in Global Health Essentials
    Chapter 2023
  11. Human Health Implications of Environmental Nanoparticles

    The scientific world is beginning to give deeper cursory attention to nanoparticles because of their significant influence on the health of humans,...
    Patrick Omoregie Isibor, Samuel Adeniyi Oyegbade, ... Oluwafemi Adebayo Oyewole in Environmental Nanotoxicology
    Chapter 2024
  12. Environmental Communication and Health Promotion

    The Earth’s health and that of humans are inextricably connected. In the case of the biological ecosystem, the behavior and actions of mankind have...
    C. Skanavis, C. Sardi, G.-T. Zapanti in Handbook of Sustainability Science in the Future
    Reference work entry 2023
  13. Measuring Spatial Associations between Environmental Health and Beliefs about Environmental Governance

    Research has shown an increasing trend in attempts to integrate social and ecological data that use indicators to improve quality of life. This...

    Whitney Fleming, Tyler Hallman, ... Kelly Biedenweg in Environmental Management
    Article 27 September 2022
  14. Machine learning-based health environmental-clinical risk scores in European children

    Background

    Early life environmental stressors play an important role in the development of multiple chronic disorders. Previous studies that used...

    Jean-Baptiste Guimbaud, Alexandros P. Siskos, ... Léa Maitre in Communications Medicine
    Article Open access 23 May 2024
  15. Pseudomonas as Backbone for Environmental Health

    Living in a clean and healthy environment is a human right. For this reason, colossal sums of money are budgeted by the state and non-state actors to...
    J. A. Ruley, J. O. Galla, ... John Baptist Tumuhairwe in Microbiomes for the Management of Agricultural Sustainability
    Chapter 2023
  16. A precision environmental health approach to prevention of human disease

    Human health is determined by the interaction of our environment with the genome, epigenome, and microbiome, which shape the transcriptomic,...

    Andrea Baccarelli, Dana C. Dolinoy, Cheryl Lyn Walker in Nature Communications
    Article Open access 28 April 2023
  17. UK health researchers’ considerations of the environmental impacts of their data-intensive practices and its relevance to health inequities

    Background

    The health sector aims to improve health outcomes and access to healthcare. At the same time, the sector relies on unsustainable...

    Gabrielle Samuel in BMC Medical Ethics
    Article Open access 27 October 2023
  18. Relationship between climate change and environmental microplastics: a one health vision for the platysphere health

    The production, dispersal, and accumulation of microplastics (MPs) are interconnected with climate change. Plastic production, which involves fossil...

    Gea Oliveri Conti, Paola Rapisarda, Margherita Ferrante in One Health Advances
    Article Open access 24 May 2024
  19. Environmental Impact on Bone Health

    The skeleton forms a dynamic organ system, functioning in a highly metabolic environment continuously affecting the balance between bone resorption...
    M. Grammatiki, V. Antonopoulou, K. Kotsa in Environmental Endocrinology and Endocrine Disruptors
    Reference work entry 2023
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