Progress in medical geology. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Motomu Ibaraki and Hiroko Mori.
• Editors: Ibaraki, Motomu
• Contents: Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter One: Adverse Health Effects of Water Contamination; 1.1 Impacts of Drinking Water Contamination on Children; Arsenic Occurrence and Exposure to Children in the Main Ethiopian Rift; Environmental Fluoride Concentrations in Areas of Endemic Calcium-deficiency Rickets; 1.2 Contamination of Radionuclide (Uranium) in Water; Total Uranium Concentrations in Local Bottled Drinking Water from Chihuahua, Mexico Uranium Concentration in Groundwater in Parts of Talwandi Sabo and the Muktsar-Malout Region of Punjab State, India with Special Reference to Health Risk AssessmentChapter Two: Relationships between Natural Environment and Human Health; 2.1 Environmental Factors in the Etiology of Diseases; The Geography of Disease Seasonality in Texas; Multiple Sclerosis and Geomagnetic Disturbances; 2.2 Effects of Natural Treatment on Human Health; The Potential Correlation between Heart Disease and the Hardness of Drinking Water; Geo-medical Resource Inventory of Nigeria Chapter Three: Health Issues from Human Activities3.1 Health Concerns from Coal; Environmental Health Impact of Potentially Harmful Element Discharges from Mining Operations in Nigeria; Urinary Bladder Cancer in a Former Area of Underground Hard Coal Mining; Volatile Organic Compounds Emitted from Self-burning Coal Waste Piles in Spain and Portugal; 3.2 Long-term Effects of War on Human Health; Health Effects of Embedded Metal Fragments; Imaging Techniques for the Assessment of Adverse Tissue Effects from Embedded Metal Fragments Chapter Four: Role of Society in Protecting Health of CommunityHydraulic Fracturing; Some Aquifers in Colombia have Demonstrated a Potential Health Hazard; Landslides in Colombia
• Publisher Details: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 329 pages)
• Subjects: 614.4/2; Medicine; Environmentally induced diseases; Environmental Exposure; MEDICAL / Forensic Medicine; MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine; MEDICAL / Public Health; Science: general issues; Technology, engineering, agriculture; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443873772; 1443873772
• Related ISBNs: 1443873195; 9781443873192
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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