Occupational and Environmental Exposures, Diseases and Epidemiology: From Basic Research to Human Health

Dear Colleagues,

Frequent exposure to chemical, biological and physical agents can lead to adverse health outcomes and a decreased live expectancy. Depending on age, exposure can occur in the general environment (indoors and outdoors), at  school, or at the workplace, leading to the risk of a shortened lifespan. This can arise from air and water pollution, climate change, endocrine disruptors, heavy metals, and phthalates in the general environment to very specific occupational exposure to chemicals. For this Special Issue, ‘Occupational and Environmental Exposures, Diseases and Epidemiology: From Basic Research to Human Health’, we would like to invite you to submit your novel research on:

• Novel environmental and occupational risks and the health effects.
• Novel mechanisms of early adverse health effects.
• The association or contribution of occupational exposure and health outcomes, with environmental exposure and health outcomes.
• Development of improved risk assessment methods, with estimations of improved life quality.
• Exposure during pregnancy and at other vulnerable moments in life (from cradle to grave).
• Early identification of exposure and disease via novel biomonitoring methods (e.g., metabolomics or proteomics) and markers.
• The current knowledge and meta-analysis of data.

From large-scale cohort studies to personalized medicine, what are the next steps?

Dr. Jeroen Vanoirbeek
Dr. María Jesús Cruz Carmona
Guest Editors

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• early identification
• exposure
• inhalation
• dermal
• ingestion
• occupational
• environmental
• cohort research
• in vivo research
• disease mechanisms