Environmental health

Environmental health is a term that originally derives from the English Environmental Health and designates the area of health care, dealing with potentially harmful environmental influences. Synonym is the term commonly used environmental hygiene.

Environmental health addresses all the physical, chemical and biological environmental factors that can influence from the outside through the air, the water, the food and the radiation on humans.

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The Composite Environmental Health found in German dictionaries still no input, but is increasingly used in the direct translation of Environmental Health from English into German literature, in the media and also by the official side.