1 Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC. 2 Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 3 Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. 4 Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Healt...

Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Department of Epidemiology and Department of Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA and Department of Human Anatomy, Pharmacology and Forensic Sciences, Univers...

Affiliations: University Hospital, Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, Dept of Respiratory Diseases, Montpellier, Inserm, CESP Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health, U1018, Respiratory and Environmental Epidemiology team, Villejuif, Inserm U1046, Montpellier University 1 and 2, Montpellier, and Allergy Division, Pneumology Dept, INSERM U657, Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, Universit...

1Exposure, Epidemiology and risk Program; Department of Environmental Health; Harvard School of Public Health; Boston, ma uSa; 2Center of molecular and Genetic Epidemiology; Department of Environmental and Occupational Health; Ca’ Granda Ospedale maggiore Policlinico irCCS Foundation; università degli Studi di milano; milan, italy; 3Channing Laboratory; Brigham and women’s Hospital; Harvard med...

Public health and environmental professionals have generally focused on monitoring the ambient environment to assess exposures to the public. To understand exposures and effects and predict onset or course of disease, it is also important to look inside the (human) organism. Biomarkers—measurable internal indicators of changes in organisms at the molecular or cellular level—offer great potentia...

1 Chemical Exposures and Molecular Biology Branch, Office of Program Development, Division of Extramural Research and Training, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC. 2 Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Develo...

This paper discusses the links among health, environment, and sustainable development and presents a framework that extends from the epidemiological domain to the policy domain and includes the driving forces that generate environmental pressures, creating changes in the state of the environment and eventually contributing to human exposures. Health effects are the end result of this complex ne...

The environmental justice literature faces a number of conceptual and methodological shortcomings. The purpose of this paper is to probe ways in which these shortcomings can be remedied via recent developments in related literatures: population health and air pollution epidemiology. More sophisticated treatment of social structure, particularly if based on Pierre Bourdieu's relational approach ...

1 Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 2 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 3 Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 4 Department of Biostatistics, School of P...

The value of epidemiology in the investigation of incidents of infectious disease in the UK does not seem to be always readily appreciated within microbiology' 2 or environmental health.3 Yet because microbial disease is a result of the interaction of the agent, the host and environmental factors4 neither laboratory diagnosis nor environmental inspection are of themselves sufficient for success...