The totality of environmental exposures from conception onward, assessing the multitude of human exposures across the life.
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Current Environmental Health Challenges: Part I - Exposures and Research Trends
Paraskevi Papadopoulou (The American College of Greece, Greece), Anastasia Misseyanni (Deree – The American College of Greece, Greece), and Christina Marouli (Deree – The American College of Greece, Greece)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 37
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1241-8.ch001
Abstract
This is the first of two overview chapters of important contemporary environmental health challenges. The exciting developments in the environmental health fields are approached in an interdisciplinary manner covering cutting-edge scientific developments and research. In the first chapter, environmental exposures to a variety of toxins, diseases, and stressors that challenge the individual and affect public health are examined. The handling, storage, big data management related to medical and health-informatics are discussed. Issues such as single gene polymorphisms, gene expression, transcriptomics, epigenetics, metabolomics, exposure to carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, heavy metals, physical hazards, airborne particulates, quality of food and water, toxin metabolism, bioinformatics, and exposome analysis are considered. Important recommendations and solutions are provided emphasizing the collaboration between researchers/scientists and the community.