Environmental Exposure A-Z
The World Health Organization defines the "environment" in terms of how it impacts health as "all the physical,
chemical and biological factors external to a person, and all the related behaviors." Environmental exposures
have been grouped, below, according to broad categories that can be explored to learn about potential health impacts.
- Introduction
- Air Quality
- Arsenic
- Biomonitoring
- Blue-green algae
- Cadmium
- Climate
- Community Water Systems
- Drought
- Extreme Temperatures
- Fish Consumption
- Flooding
- Fluoride
- Generators
- Gold King Mine
- Indoor Air
- Iron
- Manganese
- Mercury
- Nitrate
- Outdoor Air
- Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
- Private Wells
- Private Wells: Drought and Disasters
- Radon
- Sulfate
- Temperatures
- Uranium
- Water: Boil Water
- Water: pH and Conductivity
- Water: Water-related Diseases
- Water Hauling
- Water Quality
- Weather
- Wildland Fire Activity