A to Z of Therapies
Clinical Ecology/Environmental Medicine
January 7th, 2010
In its broadest sense, the environment is one of the major decisive factors of human health and well-being. Healthy environments promote individual and community health.
Over the last few decades there has been growing incidencesof more complex and chronic diseases. And the current medicalsolutions appear to result in growing medical / workplace costs, togetherwith a declining satisfaction with the quality of life that results from thiscare.
Environmental Medicine focuses on the causes of disease inan environmental context. It is concerned with the whole person and the waythat a person reacts to his/her total environment. A typicalassessment begins with an environmental and diet focused medical history, aphysical examination and diagnostic testing. It proceeds to ahypothesis of the condition's origins and concludes with an effectivematch between suggested treatments and the beneficial response bythe patient.
American College of Occupational andEnvironmental Medicine
http://www.acoem.org/
A to Z of Therapies
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