Screen LibraryHealth care and environmental contamination /
Saved in:
| Corporate Authors: | |
|---|---|
| Group Author: | ; |
| Published: |
Elsevier,
|
| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, MA : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Environmental contaminants ;
volume 11 |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: |
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444638571 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(267 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780444640093 0444640096 |
| Index Number: | RA567 |
| CLC: | X799 |
| Contents: |
Environmental Contaminants and Health Care: An Introduction / Environmental Contamination From Health-Care Facilities / Introduction -- PPCPs in Health Care Facilities Effluents -- PPCPs in WWTPs -- Municipal WWTPs -- Hospital Effluent -- Other Treatment Options -- PPCPs Emission and Ecological Risks -- Conclusion -- References -- Fate and Behavior of Environmental Contaminants Arising From Health-Care Provision / Environmental Fate Processes -- Physicochemical Properties of Healthcare Contaminants -- Receiving Environments -- Aquatic Environment -- Fate Processes Impacting Wastewater Treatment -- Fate in the Aquatic Ecosystem -- Terrestrial Environment -- Fate in the Terrestrial Ecosystem -- Wastewater and Biosolids Application on Land -- Atmosphere -- Disposal of Poorly Treated Healthcare Waste -- Conclusions -- Ecotoxicological Perspectives on Health Care and the Environment / Health care and the Environment: Pharmaceuticals are Indicators of Urbanization -- Historical Bioaccumulation and Ecotoxicology Tools: Inadequate for Pharmaceuticals? -- Ecotoxicology During Retrospective Studies of Water Quality -- Bioaccumulation During Prospective Studies of Chemicals -- Ecotoxicity during Prospective Studies of Chemicals -- Emerging Ecotoxicology Approaches for Studying Health-care Impacts -- Biological Read-Across, Fish Plasma Modeling and Behavioral Ecotoxicology -- Ecotoxicology and Bioaccumulation Approaches to Study Medicines in the Environment -- Ecotoxicology Outlook for Medicines: Opportunities to Advance Sustainability Science? -- Acknowledgments -- Further Reading -- Terrestrial Ecotoxicity / Introduction of Health-Care Products into Terrestrial Environments -- Regulatory and Technical Aspects of Health-Care Products in the Terrestrial Environment -- Soil Invertebrate (Earthworm) Toxicity -- Plant Toxicity -- Outlook and Future Research Needs -- Environmental Contaminants of Health-Care Origin: Exposure and Potential Effects in Wildlife / Sources of Health-care Contaminants and Exposure Pathways for Wildlife -- Current Knowledge of Exposure, Hazard and Risks of Contaminants of Health-care Origin -- Mammals -- Birds -- Reptiles and Amphibians -- Approaches for Characterizing Exposure, Hazard and Risk Posed by Contaminants From Health care to Wildlife -- Exposure Assessment -- Hazard Assessment: Empirical Data and the Use of Read-Across From Preclinical and Clinical Drug Trials -- Risk -- Future Priorities -- Hazard Assessments -- Exposure and Risk of APIs to Wildlife in Developing Countries -- Novel Ideas and Thinking Outside of the Box -- Do Wildlife Act as Vectors for the Transfer of Antimicrobial Resistance? -- Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and Human Health / Routes of Human Exposure to Pharmaceuticals in the Environment -- Toxicological Risks of Pharmaceutical Residues in the Environment -- Potential Indirect Effects of Pharmaceutical Residues on Human Health and Well-being -- Research Needs -- Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance: Closing the Loop Between Hospitals and the Environment / What are Antibiotics? -- What is Antibiotic Resistance? -- How to Combat Antibiotic Resistance -- Antibiotic Resistance Genes as Environmental "Contaminants" -- Opportunities to Mitigate the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance via the Water Cycle -- "Hot-Spot" Treatment at Hospitals -- Wastewater Treatment Plants and Recycled Water -- Agricultural Practices -- Aquaculture -- Antibiotic Manufacturing -- Closing Thoughts -- Antimicrobial Use and Ecotoxicological Risks from Pandemics and Epidemics / Case Study: Influenza Pandemic 2009 -- Secondary Bacterial Infections -- Environmental Relevance of Medical Response -- Preparing for the Next Pandemic -- Special Cases of Mosquito Transmission -- Known and Unknown Unknowns -- Pandemics of Chronic Diseases -- Management of Waste from the Health-Care Sector / Need for Healthcare Waste Management -- Defining "Healthcare" Waste -- UK Definition of Healthcare Waste -- Healthcare Waste Management in Economically Less Developed Countries -- Basics of Healthcare Waste Management -- Options for Healthcare Waste Treatment and Disposal -- Landfill -- Destruction Processes -- Low Temperature Sterilization Processes -- Legislative Framework of the Healthcare Waste Sector in the United Kingdom -- Global Dimension -- How Eu |