Providing a comprehensive core text on environmental health for both students and practitioners, Environmental Health, Second Edition covers the major issues in the field, including air, surface water, and ground water contamination, food safety, occupational health, radiation, chemical and physical hazards, vector control, and injuries.

Provides current information and research for performing risk assessments on exposed individuals and populations, giving guidance to public health authorities, primary care physicians, and industrial managers. Reviews current knowledge on human exposure to selected chemical agents and physical factors in the ambient environment.

This is a one-volume compendium of hazardous materials that discusses the toxic effects of these materials on human health and the global environment.