Environmental epidemiology is the study of how environmental exposures, such as air and water pollution, chemicals, radiation, and other physical and biological agents, affect human health across populations. It applies epidemiological methods to identify links between exposures and disease, to quantify the associat…
Environmental epidemiology is the study of how environmental exposures, such as air and water pollution, chemicals, radiation, and other physical and biological agents, affect human health across populations. It applies epidemiological methods to identify links between exposures and disease, to quantify the associated health risks, and to inform measures that prevent or reduce harm. The discipline is central to understanding diseases whose distribution is shaped by environmental conditions, a concern that is especially pressing in tropical settings. Within the journal's scope on Tropical Diseases and Medicine, research has addressed the assessment of environmental exposure, including a study on the use of metabolomic tools to evaluate environmental exposure. Metabolomics offers a way to detect the biological signatures of exposure within the body, supporting more precise measurement of how environmental factors influence health, a key methodological challenge in environmental epidemiology. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to environmental epidemiology, supporting epidemiologists, public-health practitioners, and students interested in the relationship between environmental exposures and disease, and in the methods used to measure that relationship.
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