Environmental Health

Environmental Health articles address topics, methods or research outcomes that fall within the following proposed definition: “Environmental health comprises those aspects of human health, including quality of life, that are determined by physical, chemical, biological, social, psychosocial and aesthetic factors of our environment. It also refers to the policy and practices for the management, resorption, control and prevention of environmental factors that can potentially affect the health of present and future generations” (free translation of the French definition of the World Health Organization, Helsinki Conference, 1994).