The Gale encyclopedia of environmental health / Jacqueline L. Longe, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Volume 1: Acetone -- Acid Rain -- Acrylamide -- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry -- Agricultural Chemicals -- Air Pollution -- Algal Bloom -- Altitude Sickness -- Ambient Air -- Amebiasis -- American Public Health -- Association -- Ammonia Exposure -- Anthrax -- Antimicrobial Resistance -- Arsenic -- Asbestos -- Asbestosis -- Aspergillosis -- Asthma -- Autism Spectrum Disorder -- Avian Flu -- Background Radiation -- Bedbug Infestation -- Benzene -- Benzene and Benzene Derivatives Exposure -- Benzo(A)Pyrene -- Berylliosis -- Bhopal, India -- Bioinformatics -- Biomonitoring -- Biosafety -- Bioterrorism -- Biotoxins -- Bisphenol A -- Black Lung Disease -- Bronchitis -- Brownfield Sites -- Brucellosis -- Bushmeat -- Byssinosis -- Cadmium -- Cadmium Poisoning -- Campylobacteriosis -- Cancer -- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning -- Cellular Phones -- Centers For Disease Control and Prevention -- Chagas Disease -- Chartered Institute of Environmental Health -- Chemical Poisoning -- Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station Disaster -- Child Survival Revolution -- Chlorination -- Chlorine Exposure -- Cholera --Chronic Kidney Disease -- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease -- Chronic Wasting Disease -- Clean Air Act (1963, 1970, 1977, 1990) -- Clean Water Act (1972, 1977, 1987) -- Climate Change -- Colony Collapse Disorder -- Communicable Diseases -- Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) -- Crop Security -- Cruise Ship Health -- Cryptosporidiosis -- Cutting Oil Exposure -- Cyanosis -- Dams -- Decompression Sickness -- Dengue Fever -- Dioxins -- Diphtheria -- Disaster Preparedness -- Disease Outbreaks -- Drinking-Water Supply -- Drought -- Dysentery -- Earth Day -- Earthquakes -- Ebola Virus Disease -- Electric Shock Injuries -- Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act (1986) -- Emergency Preparedness -- Endemic -- Endocrine Disruptors -- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) -- Epidemiology -- Epigenetics -- Ergonomics -- Escherichia Coli -- Explosives -- Exposure Science -- Exxon Valdez -- Factory Farming/Industrial Agriculture -- Famine -- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (1972) -- Federal Water Act (1972) -- Fibrosis -- Flame Retardants -- Flint Water Crisis -- Flooding -- Flu Pandemic -- Food Additives -- Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -- Food Contamination -- Food Insecurity and Undernutrition -- Food Poisoning -- Food Safety -- Foodborne Illness -- Forced Migration -- Formaldehyde -- Fracking -- Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Disaster -- Fungal Infections -- Fungicide -- Giardiasis -- Global Public Health -- Globalization and Emerging Diseases -- Goiter -- Guinea Worm Disease -- Gulf Oil Spill -- Gulf War Syndrome -- Habitat Encroachment -- Haiti Earthquake -- Hantavirus Infections -- Hazardous Waste -- Healthy Cities -- Heat Disorders -- Heat (Stress) Index -- Heavy Metal Poisoning -- Hemorrhagic Fevers -- Hexavalent Chromium -- High Temperature Environments -- HIV/AIDS -- H1N1 Influenza A (2009) -- Horn of Africa Drought and Famine -- Housing -- Humanitarian Aid -- Hurricanes -- Icelandic Volcano Eruption (2010) -- Indoor Air Quality -- Industrial Hygiene -- Insecticide Poisoning -- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement -- Invasive Species -- Ionizing Radiation -- Japanese Earthquake (2011) -- Katrina -- Land Use -- Lead -- Lead Poisoning -- Legionnaires' Disease -- Leptospirosis -- Leukemia -- Levee -- Light Pollution -- Listeriosis -- Love Canal -- Low-Temperature Environments -- Lyme Disease --

Volume 2: Malaria -- Manganese Exposure -- Measles -- Medical Waste -- Melanoma -- Meningitis -- Mercury -- Mercury Poisoning -- Methemoglobinemia -- Microbial Pathogens --Mold -- Multiple Chemical Sensitivity -- Mumps -- Naegleria Fowleri -- National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) -- National Environmental Health Association -- National Environmental Policy Act (1969) -- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) -- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health -- National Park -- Nature Deficit Disorder -- Necrotizing Fasciitis -- Neurotoxin -- 9/11 Terrorist Attacks -- NIPAH Virus Infection -- Noise Pollution -- Non-Ionizing Radiation -- Noroviruses -- Occupational Safety and Health Act (1970) -- Occupational Safety and Health Administration -- Ocean Waste -- Oil Spills, Health Effects Of -- Omnibus Flood Control Act (1936) -- One Health Initiative -- Oxfam -- Ozone -- Ozone Exposure -- Pandemic -- Parasites -- Parkinson's Disease -- Patch Testing -- Plague -- Polio -- Population and Disease -- Population Pyramid -- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- Protein-Energy Malnutrition -- Public Health Service -- Rachel Carson Council -- Radiation -- Radiation Exposure -- Radiation Injuries -- Radon -- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act -- Risk Assessment -- River Blindness -- Rivers and Harbors Act Of 1899 -- Rodents -- Safe Drinking Water Act (1974) -- Sanitation -- Save The Children -- Schistosomiasis -- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) -- Seveso, Italy -- Shigellosis -- Sick Building Syndrome -- Sierra Club -- Silicosis -- Skin Cancer -- Sleeping Sickness -- Smallpox -- Smog -- Smoking -- Soil Conservation Act (1935) -- Stockholm Planetary Boundaries -- Styrene -- Sulfur Exposure -- Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (1986) -- Swimming Advisories -- Talcosis -- Teratogen -- Thesaurosis -- Three Mile Island Nuclear Disaster -- Tick-Borne Diseases -- Times Beach -- Tornado and Cyclone -- Toxic Sludge Spill in Hungary -- Toxic Substances Control Act (1976) -- Toxicology -- Traveler's Health -- Tropical Disease -- Tsunamis -- Tuberculosis -- Typhoid Fever -- Typhus -- Ultraviolet Radiation -- UN Sustainable Development Goals -- UNICEF -- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services -- Vaccination -- Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (VCJD) -- Vector (Mosquito) Control -- Vibriosis -- Viruses -- Volatile Organic Compound -- Volcanic Eruptions -- Water Fluoridation -- Water Pollution -- Water Quality -- Water Quality Standards -- Water Scarcity -- Waterborne Diseases -- West Nile Virus -- Whooping Cough -- Wildfires -- World Health Organization (WHO) -- Yellow Fever -- Yokkaichi Asthma -- Zero Population Growth -- Zika Virus Disease -- Zoonoses.

This edition is a one-stop source for information that covers all aspects of environmental health, including recent and historic natural and man made environmental health events, environmentally related health conditions and diseases, Important public health practices, environmental terms, and significant organizations and legislation. It addresses environmental health concerns with a global perspective.