environmental medicine

noun

1. the branch of medicine dealing with the effects of the environment on human health, especiallythe physical, mental, and emotional responses to environmental factors.

2. the study of the causes of disease in an environmental context, and the development of methods of detection, control, and prevention of environmentally related disease.

Example Sentences

As it stands, undocumented immigrants face financial, legal and linguistic barriers to seeking healthcare, said Dr. Sheiphali Gandhi, a UC San Francisco assistant professor of occupational and environmental medicine.

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"We can see a clear link between long-term use -- five years or more -- of these drugs and reduced risk of dementia in older age," says Mozhu Ding, assistant professor at the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, and one of the lead authors of the paper.

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"Previous studies have focused on individual drugs and specific patient groups but in this study, we take a broader approach," says Alexandra Wennberg, affiliated researcher at the Institute of Environmental Medicine and the other lead author of the paper.

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Dr. Philippe Grandjean, a scientist of environmental medicine at the University of Rhode Island, has also done extensive research into fluoridation but he believes that the NTP report was "unusually modest and fails to recognize the substantial and negative public health impact of fluoride."

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“They do not lower the dust level low enough to prevent this severe disease,” said Rosenman, chief of the division of occupational and environmental medicine at Michigan State University.

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