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Environmental Health

Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with how physical, chemical, and biological factors external to a person influence human health and disease. It encompasses the assessment and control of exposures arising from air, water, soil, food, occupational settings, and the built environment, toge…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 10 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 33× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2474-3585 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with how physical, chemical, and biological factors external to a person influence human health and disease. It encompasses the assessment and control of exposures arising from air, water, soil, food, occupational settings, and the built environment, together with the larger-scale pressures of climate change and extreme hydrological events. The discipline links environmental contaminants and conditions to specific health outcomes, ranging from waterborne and vector-borne infectious diseases to chronic effects of pollutants and toxicants, and it emphasises prevention through monitoring, exposure characterisation, sanitation, and policy intervention. Work in this area draws on epidemiology, toxicology, microbiology, and increasingly on analytical approaches such as metabolomics to quantify how environmental exposures translate into biological effect. Topics addressed include occupational and tobacco-smoke exposures, the surveillance and modelling of disease transmission dynamics, municipal decision-making strategies to combat waterborne illness, and the determinants of risk reduction under changing climate conditions. By identifying modifiable environmental hazards and the populations most vulnerable to them, environmental health supports targeted preventive measures, community education, and regulatory action. Its integrative perspective connects ecosystem condition, agricultural and waste-management practices, and individual wellbeing, situating human health within the wider environmental systems on which it depends.

Research published in this journal

10 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2021

The Use of Metabolomic Tool in Assessing Environmental Exposure

Polyana Rocha Mendes MicheleCorresponding author
Department of Clinical and Toxicological Analysis, Faculty of Pharmacy, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Exact topic International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine doi:10.14302/issn.2690-0904.ijoe-21-3966

How this research is being cited

The 10 articles above have been cited 33 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Environmental Health, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Preventive Medicine And Care (ISSN 2474-3585).

Journal editorial board
Heejung Kim · South Korea Monica Wang · United States Siddhartha Jonnalagadda · United States

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