Overview
Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with the interrelationships between people and their physical, chemical, biological, and social environments, and with how environmental factors affect human health and well-being. It addresses the determinants found in air, water, soil, food, and the built and natural environment, and seeks to identify, assess, and control exposures that cause or contribute to disease. The field spans occupational and community settings and integrates exposure science, epidemiology, toxicology, and prevention. Research relevant to this area includes the occupational and environmental health benefits of tobacco-control measures such as smoking bans, the use of metabolomic tools to assess environmental exposure, and prevention and safety training to improve community health. Further work examines the dynamics of waterborne and vector-borne disease, including mathematical modelling of typhoid transmission and municipal decision-making to combat waterborne illness, as well as vulnerabilities arising from climate change and extreme hydrological events and the determinants needed for risk reduction. Biological monitoring of ecosystems and the application of biotechnology to environmental management also fall within its scope. Environmental health is significant because the quality of air, water, and land is a major determinant of population health and of health equity. Study of the field encompasses exposure and risk assessment, the surveillance of environmentally mediated disease, and the design of interventions to protect health.
Research published in this journal
9 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
Mathematical Modelling of Typhoid Fever Transmission Dynamics and Intervention Impact in Harare, Zimbabwe (2018–2020)
The Use of Metabolomic Tool in Assessing Environmental Exposure
Prevention and Safety Training to Improve Community Health
Development of Municipal Decision-Making Strategies as Management Tools to Combat Waterborne Diseases
Vulnerabilities in Environment and Health Due to Climate Change and Extreme Hydrological Events: Determinants for Risk Reduction
Biotechnological application of Cyanobacteria in, Agriculture, Medicine and Environment
Monitoring of Insect Species Richness and Abundance in Sudan Semi-arid Ecosystem (Case study: Khartoum State/Sudan)
Effects of Different Extraction Methods on Antioxidant Properties and Allicin Content of Garlic
How this research is being cited
The 9 articles above have been cited 27 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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2025 · Future Foods
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A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Environmental Health, linking to each citing work.