Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Environmental Health

Environmental health is the field of public health concerned with how the physical, chemical, biological, and social environment affects human health, and with the prevention and control of environmental hazards that cause injury, illness, or death. It studies exposures arising from air, water, soil, food, the built…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 9 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 27× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2690-0904 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Environmental health is the field of public health concerned with how the physical, chemical, biological, and social environment affects human health, and with the prevention and control of environmental hazards that cause injury, illness, or death. It studies exposures arising from air, water, soil, food, the built environment, occupational settings, and a changing climate, and it links these exposures to outcomes through surveillance, exposure assessment, and intervention. Core activities include monitoring contaminants, characterising routes of exposure and susceptible populations, evaluating risk, and designing policy, regulatory, and educational measures to reduce harm. The discipline overlaps substantially with occupational health, since the workplace is a major source of exposure, and with environmental epidemiology and toxicology. The articles assembled here reflect this scope: occupational and environmental benefits of smoking bans, metabolomic assessment of environmental exposure, community prevention and safety training, strategies to combat waterborne disease, and the vulnerabilities to health created by climate change and extreme hydrological events. Related work on disease transmission modelling, ecological monitoring, and food and water quality situates environmental health within a broader ecosystem perspective. Recurring themes include hazard identification, exposure and risk assessment, environmental monitoring, prevention through policy and behaviour change, and equity in the distribution of environmental burdens. The aim throughout is to protect populations and promote well-being.

Research published in this journal

9 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

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.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Environmental Health, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ISSN 2690-0904).

Journal editorial board
Sabina IRIMIE · Romania aida santaolalla · United Kingdom

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