"Environmental medicine is a multidisciplinary field involving medicine, environmental science, chemistry and others, overlapping with environmental pathology."
Study of the effects of environmental factors on health, including exposure to chemicals, extreme temperatures, and altitude.
Environmental Pollutants: Understand the various types and sources of pollutants such as chemical, biological, and radiological substances and how they affect human health.
Toxicity and Biomarkers: Identify the toxic effects of environmental pollutants on human body functions and diseases, and the use of biomarkers to diagnose environmental toxic exposures.
Environmental Epidemiology: Study the patterns of environmental exposures and their health effects in human populations, including the various types of epidemiological studies used.
Environmental Regulations: Comprehend environmental regulations and monitoring programs, including air and water quality monitoring.
Occupational Medicine: Explore occupational hazards and exposure assessment, including risk assessment and management for military occupational hazards.
Disaster Medicine: Learn the role of environmental medicine in disaster medicine and public health responses to natural or human-made disasters, and emergency management.
Military Environmental Health: Understand the unique challenges involved in the military environment, such as deployment and exposure to environmental anxiety and stress.
Risk Assessment: Develop skills in risk assessment and medical surveillance programs as related to environmental medicine.
Climate Change and Health: Research the effects of climate change on human health, including food, air, and waterborne diseases, and increased exposure to extreme weather conditions.
Environmental Justice: Examine social inequalities and environmental racism, and how economic, political and social factors contribute to the environmental burden of certain populations.
Children's Environmental Health: Look at the crucial role of environmental medicine in protecting child health, including prenatal exposures, child development, and chronic diseases.
Global Environmental Health: Review the international dimensions of environmental health issues, including international public health and policies, and environmental health hazards in developing countries.
Aerospace Medicine: This branch of medicine deals with the physiological and psychological effects of living and working in space, high altitudes, and aviation environments.
Chemical Medicine: This involves the study of the harmful effects of chemicals and toxins on humans and their potential impact on the environment.
Disaster Medicine: This branch of Environmental Medicine is concerned with the prevention and management of disasters such as natural disasters, chemical spills, bioterrorism, and others.
Environmental Toxicology: This deals with the study of the harmful effects of toxic substances on humans and the environment.
Industrial Hygiene: This involves the study and prevention of occupational illnesses related to work conditions in industries such as manufacturing, mining, and agricultural settings.
Military Preventive Medicine: Military Medicine deals with infectious disease prevention and control, food and water supply and sanitation, and environmental health, among other things.
Radiation Medicine: This field of medicine is concerned with the study of the biological effects of ionizing radiation on the human body and the environment.
Thermal Medicine: Thermal medicine addresses the effects of environmental heat and cold stress on human physiology.
Tropical Medicine: Tropical Medicine deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of tropical diseases and infections, mainly caused by insect bites.
Wilderness Medicine: This involves the diagnosis and management of medical emergencies in the wilderness, such as hiking or camping trips.
"It can be viewed as the medical branch of the broader field of environmental health."
"The scope of this field involves studying the interactions between environment and human health, and the role of the environment in causing or mediating disease."
"This specialist field of study developed after the realization that health is more widely and dramatically affected by environmental factors than previously recognized."
"Environmental factors in the causation of environmental diseases can be classified into: Physical, Chemical, Biological, Social (including Psychological and Culture variables), Ergonomic, Safety, Any combination of the above."
"In the United States, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OCOEM) oversees board certification of physicians in environmental (and occupational) medicine."
"This board certification isn't recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties."