Medical Geology: En Route to One Health

Medical Geology studies exposure to or deficiency of macro- and micronutrients that may lead to health problems in the human and animal. The condition of our environment influences our health as mostly the water and food come from the environmental sources. Medical Geology helps us to understand the relationship between the aerosphere, hydrosphere and geosphere on human and animal health. The elements and minerals in soil, water and atmospheric dust affects people and animals massively as there is a close relationship between the two. Naturally occurring geogenic/pedogenic elements such as Fluoride, Selenium, Iodide, water hardness etc. are extremely detrimental to the health of the close contacts. This volume presents a compilation of compelling insights into medical geology in the recent Anthropocene and its characteristics regarding the chemistry of the aerosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere.

Medical Geology: An en Route for One Health aims to provide a resource for a large group of readers, including professionals, academics, graduate, and undergraduate students dealing with chemistry, biology, environmental science, and geography. Discussion on the interactions of geology with ions, compounds and their effects on water, soil and atmosphere, detailed multidisciplinary information on the way in which geology influence on the health and the provision of extensive multidisciplinary reference data relating to medical geology, is the basic information planned to be delivered to the reader. This volume presents a compilation of compelling insights into the human and animal health with a specific focus on geological interactions. This volume further highlights the macro- and molecular level interaction of the human, animal, and geological domains of the triad with health. Also, complete with illustrations and real-life case studies, this volume takes a comprehensive and realistic approach to One Health. Hence, the assumption is the reader will develop the fundamental aspects of medical geology, sources, and effects on the health.

Volume highlights include:

• Provides a thorough introduction to One Health approach towards environment and medical geology
• Human and animal health from a geo-focused perception covering aerosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere
• Includes illustrations throughout, to encourage the reader to understand the concepts
• Book builds on this foundation by providing examples of state-of-the-art, along with detailed case studies
• Edited by a group of experts and including chapters written by a group of international experts in their field
• Written in non-technical language for a wide-ranged reader from general public to professional researchers