The forest for the trees: A systems approach to human health research

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1261-1263

  Gohlke, Julia M ^a   Portier, Christopher J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Public health; Risk assessment; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

CARBON; METHYLMERCURY;

AIR POLLUTANT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOREST; GENOME; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; NOTE; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; STARVATION; SURVIVAL; TREE;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC POLICY; RESEARCH; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 34748873226     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.10373     Document Type: Note

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