Health, Environment & Work

This site provides many academically based educational resources (also available as FAQs), a search facility, as well as vetted and updated 'links' relating to Occupational and Environmental Health and Medicine.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Recent notes:

NEW VACANCY: Academic Clinical LECTURER in Occupational Medicine - The University of Manchester

This website is currently being reviewed and updated. Pages which have been updated are evident by having the main text in arial font (such as this one), as well as by having a recent (2007) date in the 'footer'

This website's accreditation by 'Health on the Net' was reconfirmed following a review on the 8 May 2007. (The date of initial review was the 14 Jun 2000).

Toxseek - a Toxicology and Environmental Health search engine developed by the National Library of Medicine (US)

Lecture to medical undergraduates of the 27th April 2007

Other new 'resource' pages are being developed, either here or at the author's workplace.

Statement on the purpose and future of this 'Health, Environment and Work' WWW resource:

This website is self-funded by the author, who is Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of Manchester. The main work activities of the author are to carry out research and to teach in Occupational and Environmental Health and Medicine. Although educational resources are currently being developed by the author and colleagues, at another WWW location for the exclusive use of students of the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, this WWW resource on 'Health, Environment and Work' will remain freely available.

Number of visits to this website since 14 February 2000:
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This web resource was first established in 1995, and has been visited about 250,000 times in the last year. In 2005, at around the time of the 10th anniversary of this site, it achieved around 1 million hits on this second webcounter, having had about 200,000 hits prior to the year 2000.

The above photo taken by the author of this website has been chosen for its allegorical character. It depicts air, land and water, as well as the sun - the main source of our planet's energy. It also shows a silhouette of man's contribution to the environment in the form of houses, the chimneys of a power station and a large municipal gas tank. The photo features on the front cover of the report on sulphur dioxide by the Expert Panel on Air Quality Standards.

For further guidance in relation to the use and limitations of this website, please consult the help page.
You can find out more about references or awards to this WWW resource on a companion page.

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It was last updated by the author Raymond Agius in February 2008