Public Health: Treaty on Environmental, Occupational Health and Community Nutrition

Public Health and Epidemiology · Clinical Bases

How it begins

A systematic and comprehensive treatise on the physical, chemical and metabolic determinants of human health. Molecular analysis of environmental contaminants, physiology of ergonomic effort, pathology and industrial hygiene, micronutrient immunology and global food safety policies.

What it covers

1. · Air Pollution by Particulate Matter and Combustion Gases
2. · Toxicology of Heavy Metals and Transition Ions
3. · Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs)
4. · Biophysics of Radiation and Mechanisms of DNA Damage
5. · Epidemiology of Climate Change and Pathophysiology of Thermal Stress
6. · Climate Change Dynamics and Vector Pathology
7. · Work Physiology, Metabolic Expenditure and Cardiovascular Load
8. · Ergonomics of Biomechanical Risk Factors
9. · Psychosocial Risk Factors and Neurobiology of Work Stress
10. · Silicosis and its Fibrosing Physiopathological Cascade
11. · Asbestosis, Pleural Plaques and Asbestos Carcinogenesis
12. · Chemical Carcinogenesis of Industrial Origin
13. · Epidemiology of Accidents and Accident Metric Formulas
14. · Medico-Legal Difference between Work Accident and Occupational Disease
15. · Determination of Causality and Simonin Criteria
16. · Iron Deficiency Anemia: Hepcidin-Ferroportin Axis
17. · Vitamin A, Gene Transcription and Mucosal Epithelial Integrity
18. · Chronic Iodine and Zinc Deficiencies
19. · Insulin Resistance and Metabolic Syndrome at the Molecular Level
20. · Hepatic Fructose Metabolism and De Novo Lipogenesis
21. · Advanced Glycation Products (AGEs) and their Interaction with the RAGE Receptor
22. · The Nutritional and Epidemiological Transition (Popkin Model)
23. · The Critical Dimensions of Food Security (FAO)
24. · Population Interventions in Nutritional Health
25. · Evaluation of Nutritional Status in Public Health
26. · Chemical Contaminant Surveillance: Human Biomonitoring
27. · Advanced Level Clinical-Epidemiological Cases