Environmental Medicine

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Okay, this post will be about Environmental Medicine as part of Environmental Medicine. As usual, we will define Environmental Medicine first and foremost. Environmental medicine is a multidisciplinary field involving medicine, environmental science, chemistry and others. It may be viewed as the medical branch of the broader field of environmental health. The scope of this field involves studying the interactions between environment and human health, and the role of the environment in causing or mediating disease. As a specialist field of study it is looked upon with mixed feelings by physicians and politicians alike, for the basic assumption is that health is more widely and dramatically affected by environmental toxins than previously recognized.

Environmental factors in the causation of environmental diseases can be classified into:
 Physical
 Chemical
 Biological
 Social
 Any combination of the above
Environmental Health itself is a branch of public health that is concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment that may affect human health. Other terms that concern or refer to the discipline of environmental health include environmental public health and environmental health and protection. WHO define environmental health as those aspects of the human health and disease that are determined by factors in the environment and it also refers to the theory and practice of assessing and controlling factors in the environment that can potentially affect health.

Environmental Health services as defined by WHO are those services which implement environmental health policies through monitoring and control activities. They also carry out that role by promoting the improvement of environmental parameters and by encouraging the use of environmentally friendly and healthy technologies and behaviors. They also have a leading role in developing and suggesting new policy areas. Environmental health practitioners may be known as sanitarians, public health inspectors, environmental health specialists or environmental health officers. In many European countries physicians and veterinarians are involved in environmental health. Many states in the United States require that individuals have professional licenses in order to practice environmental health.

The environmental health profession had its modern-day roots in the sanitary and public health movement of the United Kingdom. This was epitomized by Sir Edwin Chadwick, who was instrumental in the repeal of the poor laws and was the founding president of the Association of Public Sanitary Inspectors in 1884, which today is the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.

So that is basically the general aspect of environmental medicine.
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