Progress in medical geology / edited by Motomu Ibaraki and Hiroko Mori.

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Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter One: Adverse Health Effects of Water Contamination; 1.1 Impacts of Drinking Water Contamination on Children; Arsenic Occurrence and Exposure to Children in the Main Ethiopian Rift; Environmental Fluoride Concentrations in Areas of Endemic Calcium-deficiency Rickets; 1.2 Contamination of Radionuclide (Uranium) in Water; Total Uranium Concentrations in Local Bottled Drinking Water from Chihuahua, Mexico

Uranium Concentration in Groundwater in Parts of Talwandi Sabo and the Muktsar-Malout Region of Punjab State, India with Special Reference to Health Risk AssessmentChapter Two: Relationships between Natural Environment and Human Health; 2.1 Environmental Factors in the Etiology of Diseases; The Geography of Disease Seasonality in Texas; Multiple Sclerosis and Geomagnetic Disturbances; 2.2 Effects of Natural Treatment on Human Health; The Potential Correlation between Heart Disease and the Hardness of Drinking Water; Geo-medical Resource Inventory of Nigeria

Chapter Three: Health Issues from Human Activities3.1 Health Concerns from Coal; Environmental Health Impact of Potentially Harmful Element Discharges from Mining Operations in Nigeria; Urinary Bladder Cancer in a Former Area of Underground Hard Coal Mining; Volatile Organic Compounds Emitted from Self-burning Coal Waste Piles in Spain and Portugal; 3.2 Long-term Effects of War on Human Health; Health Effects of Embedded Metal Fragments; Imaging Techniques for the Assessment of Adverse Tissue Effects from Embedded Metal Fragments

Chapter Four: Role of Society in Protecting Health of CommunityHydraulic Fracturing; Some Aquifers in Colombia have Demonstrated a Potential Health Hazard; Landslides in Colombia

This volume represents a compendium of research conducted by international scholars who participated in the 2nd Symposium on Advances in Geospatial held during "The 5th International Conference on Medical Geology" in Arlington, Virginia, USA, in 2013. The research topics dealt with here mainly focus on the new scientific field of medical geology used to address a variety of human health issues and diseases specifically related to geological materials and earth-system processes. This volume will be of interest to those who wish to learn about current and historical health issues relating to geo

Includes bibliographical references.

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