Concept information
Preferred term
environmental medicine
Definition
- A new biomedical science related to the study of short-, but also, long-term effects of environmental factors (physical, biological, and chemical) on human health. Although the concept and general application of environmental medicine is certainly older and well known, its vision was only focused to environmental health. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Environmental Medicine]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/environmental_medicine
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