Environment and health: vital intersection or contested territory?

I. INTRODUCTION

The events of environmental exposure, broadly defined as any exposing from outside the body, upon human health are unquestionably the greatest in quantity important determinants of public health. While important genetic determinants of disease bring into operation their effects irrespective of exposing from outside the body, these do not contribute as abundant to the overall public health weight of disease as factors similar as tobacco smoke, poor quality water, inadequate or contaminated diet occupational exposures to dusts and chemicals, motor vehicle accidents, interpersonal violence, air pollution, and other factors external to the material substance (1) In many cases, genetic predisposition and environmental exposing s ...