| 单词 | environmental health |
| 释义 | > as lemmasenvironmental health environmental health n. the branch of public health concerned with studying and regulating factors in the environment which affect human health and disease and with alleviating detrimental effects; often attributive; (also) the general condition of the natural environment. ΚΠ 1935 Sci. Monthly Oct. (advt.) Aspects of public health discussed in this book are environmental health hazards, community attack on specific diseases, and health problems specific to certain groups.] 1942 Science 10 July 38/1 The north wing of the first floor will be assigned to industrial health, with a large laboratory for studies in environmental health. 1964 Jrnl. Health & Human Behavior 5 131/2 Sanitary engineering now stresses the inter-relatedness..of biosystems themselves with social systems: designation of the field as ‘environmental health’ symbolizes this broadened viewpoint. 1989 C. Caufield Multiple Exposures (1990) ix. 79 [His] office backs directly on to Shiprock's biggest environmental health problem, the 72-acre tailings pile. 1990 Bellcore Insight Winter 3/1 In assessing the environmental health of the planet, these reports have observed the same alarming trends. 1999 D. Haslam Manchester, Eng. 265 Venues and clubs which had initially helped make the city centre attractive to young homeowners were threatened with closure by environmental health inspectors after a surge in complaints about noise from new city dwellers. 2007 Independent 30 May 2/5 The Arctic is the barometer of the globe's environmental health. < as lemmas |
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