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Medical Geology (eBook)

En route to One Health

Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad, Meththika Vithanage (Herausgeber)

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2023 | 1. Auflage
400 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-119-86736-4 (ISBN)

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Medical Geology The key to understanding the relationship between the geological environment and human health Medical geology deals with of the impact of environmental factors on the health of individual human beings and communities. In particular, it studies environmental exposure to both macro- and micronutrients in the geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere respectively, soil, water, and airborne dust which may positively or negatively impact human growth, development, and overall health. The insights contributed by this burgeoning field can aid not only in individual medical cases, but also in assessing disproportionately impacted communities and addressing global medical inequality. Medical Geology: En route to One Health is among the first books to address this vital subject by summarizing recent research in this field. It also serves as an introduction to the multidisciplinary One Health methodology, which unites medical, geological, and environmental insights in one continuous approach to public health. Medical Geology readers will also find: An explanation of the influence of the environment on nutrient availability Case studies of well-documented links between endemic diseases and environmental conditions A systematic analysis of the causes of essential element deficiencies in different world regions Medical Geology is an essential overview of the field, for advanced students as well as medical, environmental, or geological researchers who wish to understand the complex relationship between the geological environment and human health.

Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad, PhD, is Emeritus Professor at the School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India. Meththika Vithanage, PhD, is Professor and founding director of the Ecosphere Resilience Centre, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.

Section 1 - Geochemistry and Health

1. Medical geology: Geosphere, human and animal interface

2. Biogeochemistry: Essential link between geosphere and biosphere

3. Geochemical release and environmental interfaces

Section 2 - Dust Storms and Health

4. Minerogenic dust: Trace elements

5. Silicosis and asbestosis

6. Radon and health

Section 3 - Medical Geology of the Hydrosphere

7. Water-rock interactions: Mineral dissolution

8. Water hardness and health

9. Geochemistry of fluoride in the environment and human health

10. Iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) and strategies for alleviation

11. Understanding nexus between hydrogeochemical cycling and medical geology of arsenic

12. Potentially toxic metals and health

Section 4 - Medical Pedology: Health Effects from Soils and Sediments

13. Dynamics of trace element bioavailability in soil: Agronomic enhancement and risk assessment

14. Geochemical provenance of metalloids and their release: Implications on medical geology

15. Cobalt and copper deficiency and molybdenosis

16. Healing clays structure and functions

Section 5 - Case Studies

17. Chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu) ? the search for causes and the impact of its politicization

18. Uraniferous province of Lagoa Real: routes, dispersion and impacts of radioelements on health

19. Defluoridation

20. Pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutic effect of metals and minerals used in traditional medicine

21. Understanding the aetiology of trace elements related non-communicable diseases ? reviewing the Ghanaian situation

22. Dental fluorosis in Turkey

23. Environmental and medical geology of the lead mining and metallurgical complex of Bahia: The case of lead metallurgy, Santo Amaro, Bahia, Brazil

24. Uncontrolled coal fires: How medical geology can save lives

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.2.2023
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
Schlagworte	Boden- u. Geochemie • Chemie • Chemistry • earth sciences • Ecotoxicology & Pollution Science • Environmental Geoscience • Environmental Studies • Geologie • Geowissenschaften • Ökotoxikologie • Ökotoxikologie, Umweltverschmutzung • Soil & Geochemistry • Umweltforschung • Umweltgeowissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-119-86736-3 / 1119867363
ISBN-13	978-1-119-86736-4 / 9781119867364

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