Using the Trace Element Contents in Bronchoalveolar Lavages to Probe the Human Exposure to Inhaled Particulates

Achieving the One Health Goal: Highlighting Groundwater Quality and Public Health

“…As early as the 11th century AD, the Chinese population recognized the impacts of geological conditions on human health [18]; however, modern medical geological disciplines were not established to address the relationships between geoenvironmental elements and the health or occurrence of diseases in the environment until the 1930s, when Russian, Scandinavian and British geochemists established relationships between geochemistry and health in both humans and animals [18,19]. Since the 1980s, a number of books concerning highly interdisciplinary medical geology were edited and published [20][21][22][23][24][25], summarizing this field's contemporary advances. Among these, the book Essentials of Medical Geology, edited by Selinus et al [20], is an award-winning work used worldwide as both a text and reference book.…”