Health Care

Environmental Monitoring

The monitoring of the level of toxins, chemical pollutants, microbial contaminants, or other harmful substances in the environment (soil, air, and water), workplace, or in the bodies of people and animals present in that environment.

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Abstract

The monitoring of the level of toxins, chemical pollutants, microbial contaminants, or other harmful substances in the environment (soil, air, and water), workplace, or in the bodies of people and animals present in that environment.

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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • Environmental Surveillance
  • Monitoring, Environmental
  • Surveillance, Environmental

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Aspects Covered

8 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings economics, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, standards, statistics & numerical data.

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Indexing Annotation

do not confuse with EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING

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86

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Previous Indexing

  • Environmental Exposure (1967-1985)

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  1. N06.850w.460.350.080w
  2. N06.850w.780.375w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Environmental Monitoring. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004784. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004784
  2. Environmental Monitoring. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_monitoring
  3. Environmental Monitoring. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1749732