Environmental medicine: introduction and overview

Human health and longevity have long been known to depend on a complex interplay between hereditary and nonhereditary determinants. The latter include various lifestyle factors, as well as physical and chemical agents encountered in air, food, water, consumer products, the workplace, and the environ...

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Published in:	The Medical clinics of North America Vol. 74; no. 2; p. 235
Main Author:	Upton, A C
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 01-03-1990
Subjects:	Diet - adverse effects Environmental Health Environmental Pollution Hazardous Waste Humans Life Style Occupational Diseases - etiology United States United States
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Summary:	Human health and longevity have long been known to depend on a complex interplay between hereditary and nonhereditary determinants. The latter include various lifestyle factors, as well as physical and chemical agents encountered in air, food, water, consumer products, the workplace, and the environment at large. Knowledge of these determinants is becoming increasingly important to the physician and other members of society in the maintenance of human health and in the diagnosis and treatment of the diseases of modern life.
ISSN:	0025-7125
DOI:	10.1016/S0025-7125(16)30559-4