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Environmental health and nursing practice /
This is the first book for nurses on how the environment affects nursing practice. Nurses should be concerned with environmental issues for two reasons: 1. Many diseases (such as asthma, lead poisoning, and some cancers) are caused by exposures to toxins in the environment; and 2. Hospitals themselv...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Springer,
©2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Pollutants produced by the health care industry
- Occupational health risks in the health care industry
- Latex allergy in health care
- Ergonomics
- Health care without harm: a case study in advocacy
- Toxicology
- Environmental epidemiology
- Finding information about chemicals in our environment
- Risk assessment and risk management of environmental exposures
- Risk communication
- Water pollution
- Drinking water quality
- Air pollution
- How food production can affect safe consumption
- Environmental tobacco smoke and smoking cessation
- Hazardous and municipal waste sites
- Pesticide exposure
- Environmental hazards in the home
- Children's environmental health
- Environmental health risks in the work setting: recognizing sentinel events
- Environmental health risks in schools
- Cross-cultural issues on the Mexican-U.S. border
- Occupational and environmental health history-taking
- Understanding environmental health policy
- Environmental health education
- Advocating for environmental justice: protecting vulnerable communities from pollution
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Environmental health resources.