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Toxicology is the study of toxins.
What are toxins?
One, a toxin causes damaging health effects
Continuing from our previous article, where we reviewed the principles of epidemiology, the focus here is…
The purpose of this document is to discuss principles of analysing environmental health data. We shall discuss principles of data analysis in general, and we shall show an example of a simple data analysis.
Dr Dey was examining his patient’s hand intently. On that day, Ram Das, an agricultural labourer was his last referred patient in the clinic and he was referred to from the district medical officer with a puzzling…
Arindam Basu
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As the Indian Airlines flight landed in the Birsa Munda airport in Ranchi, India, we tightened our seat belts and looked out of the tiny…
Rick woke up drenched in sweat in the middle of a nightmare. The temperature outside the room was freezing; inside in closed doors, the room was warm; outside was cold, the the air was thick and heavy. Embers…
Fifty years ago, Sir Austin Bradford Hill stood before the audience of the gathering of the Society of…
SummaryHere we review of the principles of environmental epidemiology. We begin with a definition of epidemiology that is, epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health related states and the application of that…
Environmental and Occupational health (“EOH”) refers to the role of environment and occupation on human health. This is a branch of public health. The field of study helps us to answer the following questions:
