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The environmental health programs expanded from water pollution into air, industrial, and chemical pollution and radiological health research during and after World War II, [26] [29] and in 1954 they moved across town from the former Cincinnati Marine Hospital to the newly constructed Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center.
Agencies that are responsible for state-level regulating, monitoring, managing, and protecting environmental and public health concerns. The exact duties of these agencies can vary widely and some are combined with or are part of a state's fish and wildlife management agency .
Pediatric environmental health is based on the recognition that children are not “little adults.” Infants and children have unique patterns of exposure and vulnerabilities. Environmental risks of infants and children are qualitatively and quantitatively different from those of adults. Pediatric environmental health is highly interdisciplinary.
Environment, health and safety (EHS) (or health, safety and environment –HSE–, or safety, health and environment –SHE–) is an interdisciplinary field focused on the study and implementation of practical aspects environmental protection and safeguard of people's health and safety, especially in an occupational context.
EMS Environmental Management System; ENTRUST The European Trust Scheme Regulatory Body; ENCAMS Environmental Campaigns (umbrella name for former Going for Green and Tidy Britain Group) EP Environmental Permit; EPA Environmental Protection Act or Environmental Protection Agency; EPERN Electronic Packaging Waste Export Recovery Notes
Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM), previously called industrial medicine, [1] [a] is a board certified medical specialty under the American Board of Preventative Medicine that specializes in the prevention and treatment of work-related illnesses and injuries. [2] OEM physicians are trained in both clinical medicine and public health ...
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In 1966, U.S. Surgeon General William H. Stewart helped to create a Division of Environmental Health Sciences within the NIH. [7] Three years later, the division became its own institute, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. [8] Past directors include Paul Kotin, David Rall, Kenneth Olden, David A. Schwartz, and Linda ...