The Future of Environmental Medicine in Environmental Health Perspectives: Where Should We Be Headed?

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• Personal Author:
  Hu H ; Rischitelli G ; Schwartz BS
• Description:
  In 1998, Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) began "Grand Rounds in Environmental Medicine" as a regular feature (Hu 1998; Hu and Woolf 2003). This soon led to an expanded Environmental Medicine section that aimed to regularly publish articles in the Grand Rounds format as well as reviews, commentaries, case reports, and research articles, all of relevance to environmental medicine, with a focus mainly on clinical practice. The Grand Rounds series has been a resounding success, as reflected by the wide range of environmental medicine topics, the diversity of reporting sources, and the increased physician readership of the journal. Howard Hu served as the first Medical Editor from 1996 to 2004 and was then succeeded by Brian Schwartz; also in 2004, the journal appointed two Associate Medical Editors: Howard Hu and Gary Rischitelli. With this change in medical editorship, we wish to take the opportunity to present our views on the scope of the "environment" and "environmental medicine" and what we believe is the expanding nature of the field. We present this as a sounding board for ideas and not in any way as a definitive discussion of these issues. Our overall goal is to increase physician readership of the journal and engage EHP's audience on a wide variety of environmental medicine topics relevant to both clinical and public health practice; this editorial is a first step in achieving this goal. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Exposure Environmental Pollution Hazardous Substances Health Personnel Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Clinical Techniques Environmental Exposure Environmental Hazards Environmental Medicine Exposure Levels Global Health Health Effects Health Hazards Medical Personnel Medical Research Medical Sciences Medical Services Natural Disasters Physicians Risk Factors Socioeconomics Sociological Factors Toxins

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• ISSN:
  0091-6765
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; Massachusetts ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  113
• Issue:
  9
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20059381
• Citation:
  Environ Health Perspect 2005 Sep; 113(9):A574-576
• Contact Point Address:
  Brian S. Schwartz, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland
• Email:
  bschwart@jhsph.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• Performing Organization:
  Harvard School of Public Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Environmental Health Perspectives
• End Date:
  20280630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/223638/cdc_223638_DS1.pdf
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