An academic discipline or field of study is a branch of knowledge , taught and researched as part of higher education . A scholar's discipline is commonly defined by the university faculties and learned societies to which they belong and the academic journals in which they publish research .
12-1229: (Redirected from AIHA Journal ) Academic journal Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene Discipline Occupational medicine , environmental medicine Language English Edited by Michael D. Larrañaga Publication details Former name(s) Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene; AIHA Journal History 2004–present Publisher Taylor & Francis Frequency Monthly Impact factor 1.462 (2017) Standard abbreviations ISO 4 ( alt ) · Bluebook ( alt ) NLM ( alt ) · MathSciNet ( alt [REDACTED] ) ISO 4 J. Occup. Environ. Hyg. Indexing CODEN ( alt · alt2 ) · JSTOR ( alt ) · LCCN ( alt ) MIAR · NLM ( alt ) · Scopus ISSN 1545-9624 (print) 1545-9632 (web) LCCN 2003215652 OCLC no. 52827368 Links Journal homepage Online access Online archive The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
24-430: A few universities and publications. A discipline may have branches, which are often called sub-disciplines. The following outline provides an overview of and topical guide to academic disciplines. In each case, an entry at the highest level of the hierarchy (e.g., Humanities) is a group of broadly similar disciplines; an entry at the next highest level (e.g., Music) is a discipline having some degree of autonomy and being
36-591: Is a monthly peer-reviewed journal covering occupational and environmental medicine , especially in regards to hygiene . It was established in 2004 by the merger of Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene and AIHA Journal . It is published by Taylor & Francis along with the American Industrial Hygiene Association and the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists , of which it
48-1162: Is the official journal. The editor-in-chief is Michael D. Larrañaga. According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.462. References [ edit ] ^ "About the journal" . Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene website . ^ "Aims and Scope" . Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene website . ^ "Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene". 2018 Journal Citation Reports . Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate Analytics . 2018. External links [ edit ] Official website Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Journal_of_Occupational_and_Environmental_Hygiene&oldid=1152858421 " Categories : Environmental health journals Occupational safety and health journals Academic journals established in 2004 Monthly journals Taylor & Francis academic journals English-language journals Academic journals published by learned and professional societies of
60-496: The United States Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Monthly journals (infobox) Articles with outdated impact factors from 2017 Outline of academic disciplines Disciplines vary between well-established ones in almost all universities with well-defined rosters of journals and conferences and nascent ones supported by only
72-650: The causation of environmental diseases can be classified into: In the United States, the American College of Preventive Medicine oversees board certification of physicians in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. [1] While environmental medicine is a broad field, some of the currently prominent issues include: According to recent estimates, about 5 to 10% of disability-adjusted life years ( DALY ) lost are due to environmental causes. By far,
84-516: The fundamental identity felt by its scholars. Lower levels of the hierarchy are sub-disciplines that do generally not have any role in the structure of the university's governance. Also regarded as a Social science Linguistics listed in Social science Also regarded as a Social science Also listed in Applied science Also regarded as the separate, an entry at the highest level of
96-582: The hierarchy Also regarded as a social science Main articles: Outline of futures studies and Futures studies Also regarded as a formal science Also a branch of electrical engineering Also regarded as a social science Also listed in Humanities Environmental medicine Environmental medicine is a multidisciplinary field involving medicine , environmental science , chemistry and others, overlapping with environmental pathology . It can be viewed as
108-424: The medical branch of the broader field of environmental health . The scope of this field involves studying the interactions between environment and human health, and the role of the environment in causing or mediating disease. This specialist field of study developed after the realisation that health is more widely and dramatically affected by environmental factors than previously recognized. Environmental factors in
120-458: The most important factor is fine particulate matter pollution in urban air. Environmental medicine is concerned primarily with prevention. Food-borne infections or infections that are water-borne (e.g. cholera and gastroenteritis caused by norovirus or campylobacteria ) are typical concerns of environmental medicine, but some opinions in the fields of microbiology hold that the viruses , bacteria and fungi that they study are not within
132-579: The scope of environmental medicine if the spread of infection is directly from human to human. Much of epidemiology , which studies patterns of disease and injury, is not within the scope of environmental medicine, but e.g. air pollution epidemiology is a highly active branch of environmental health and environmental medicine. Any disease with a large genetic component usually falls outside the scope of environmental medicine, but in diseases like asthma or allergies both environmental and genetic approaches are needed. The U.S. Army has, since at least 1961, used
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#1732782899828144-443: The term "environmental medicine" in a sense different from the above. Its U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine , at Natick, Massachusetts , conducts basic and applied research to determine how exposure to extreme heat, severe cold, high terrestrial altitude, military occupational tasks, physical training, deployment operations, and nutritional factors affect the health and performance of military personnel. Research on
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