Environmental health
Environmental health is an expression that is derived from the English environmental health and denotes the area of health care that deals with environmental influences that are harmful to health . The corresponding German technical terms are environmental hygiene and environmental medicine .
Environmental health addresses all the physical , chemical and biological environmental factors that can affect people from the outside via the air , water , food and radiation and which (according to Exner) people can only influence to a limited extent through personal behavior .
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The loan translation Umweltgesundheit is missing in German specialist dictionaries, but is sometimes used in German literature, in the media and also by official sources.
Individual evidence
- ^ Martin Exner : Environmental medicine and hygiene. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1429 f.
- ↑ Reto Sonderegger, soy Republic of Paraguay ?, conflicts over land and food sovereignty, FDCL-Verlag, Berlin, 2008. ISBN 3-923020-42-2
- ↑ Germany in environmental ranking in 31st place - Spiegel Online Wissenschaft - (found on July 8, 2009)
- ↑ Analysis of the Yale Environmental Performance Index (EPI) , texts 04/08, Ecologic - Institute for International and European Environmental Policy, Berlin, February 2008, on behalf of the Federal Environment Agency, Berlin. ISSN 1862-4804
Web links
- Medical University of Vienna - Institute for Environmental Hygiene
- Environmental health - WHO - World Health Organization -
- Fact sheets: environmental health - WHO - World Health Organization -
- Public health and environment health topics - WHO - World Health Organization -