1st Edition
Environmental Epidemiology Epidemiology Investigation of Community Environmental Health Problems
Published in 1986: This book tells the story of how various persons and groups have successfully dealt with a type of problem which may threaten the lives and health of every group of humans – every community. The problem is that of a polluted environment.
Section 1: Background
1. Communities: Their Study and Their Environmental Problems
John R. Goldsmith
Section 2: Exemplary Studies
Part A
2. The Broad Street Pump
Inge F. Goldstein and Martin Goldstein
3. Cholera Outbreak in Jerusalem 1970 Revisited: The Evidence for Transmission by Wastewater Irrigated Vegetables
Badri Fattal, Perez Yekutiel, and Hillel I. Shuval
4. Cholera Today
John R. Goldsmith
Part B
5. The 20-Minute Disaster: Hydrogen Sulfide Spill at Poza Rica
John R. Goldsmith
6. Three Los Angeles Heat Waves
John R. Goldsmith
7. Planning, Analysis, and Preparation Can Save Lives
John R. Goldsmith
Part C
8. Respiratory Problems Among Kawasaki School Children
Toshio Toyama
9. Critical Assessment of Epidemiological Studies of Environmental Factors in Asthma
Inge F. Goldstein and Diana Hartel
10. Asthma and Air Pollution in Los Angeles
Roger M. Katz and Ron G. Frezieres
11. Odor Pollution in Eureka, California
Margaret Deane
Part D
12. Impact of Air Pollution in the Community
John R. Goldsmith
13. Nitrate Levels in Drinking water and Methemogloblin in Infants
John R. Goldsmith
14. Carbon Monoxide Exposures and Survival from Heart Attacks
John R. Goldsmith
15. Lead Exposures of Urban Children: A Handicap in School and Life?
John R. Goldsmith and Herbert L. Needham
16. Long term Health Effects of Photochemical Air Pollutants: Community Studies in the Los Angeles Basin
Stanley N. Rokaw and Roger L. Detels
17. Motor Vehicle Accidents: Michigan Cuts Toll from Youthful Drunk Drivers
John R. Goldsmith, Alexander C. Wagenaar, and Allen B. Rice
18. The Long View: Lessons from Experience
John R. Goldsmith
Part E
19. Reproductive Effects of DBCP: It Takes Two to Make a Baby
John R. Goldsmith and Gad Potashnik
20. Reproductive Outcomes Associated with Occupational Exposures to Anesthetic Gases
John R. Goldsmith
21. Occupational Health as a Community Problem
John R. Goldsmith
Section 3: Environmental Epidemiological Studies as a Basis for Health Protection
22. Environmental Health Decisions: The Impact of Evidence
John R. Goldsmith
23. The Ecological Imperative: Science as a Protective System Against Unintended Effects of Technological Change
John R. Goldsmith
24. Historical Postscript
John R. Goldsmith
Biography
John R. Goldsmith, M.D., M.P.H. is Professor of Epidemiology at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva Israel.