Disciplines and Occupations

Environmental Medicine

Medical specialty concerned with environmental factors that may impinge upon human disease, and development of methods for the detection, prevention, and control of environmentally related disease.

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Structured Summary

Abstract

Medical specialty concerned with environmental factors that may impinge upon human disease, and development of methods for the detection, prevention, and control of environmentally related disease.

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Medicine, Environmental

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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History Note

97

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Previous Indexing

  • Environmental Health (1990-1996)

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Numbers

  1. H02w.403w.720w.750w.250w
  2. N06.850w.420w

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NLM Classification

WA 30.5

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Environmental Medicine. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D019550. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D019550
  2. Environmental Medicine. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_medicine
  3. Environmental Medicine. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q512285