Title : Geo-sciences and public health medicine: The nexus of an evolving society in a highly dynamic environment
Abstract:
There has been a tremendous development of Medical Geosciences globally with several branches of Geosciences revolutionizing public health Medicine. Given the importance of Geo-environmental materials, factors and processes, including both geogenic and anthropogenic activities as well as reported cases of diseases associated with such activities in our evolving society, medical geosciences is thus crucial to human existence. This review delves deeply into comprehensive studies on the impact of Geosciences factor on human health. Diagnostic imaging technology traced to earth imaging tools have transformed the health sciences by enabling opaque diagnosis and more precise disease identification, robust therapy and improved patient care. Geophysics, a branch of Geosciences is commonly and currently been used to explore Earth’s subsurface providing innovative insight to crucial medical problems. The geologic sources of contamination by toxic elements in the environment which has led to human exposure through food, air, gases, soil, rocks and water intake into human body are examined closely. Furthermore, discussion extends to raising awareness about the harmful effects of water contamination caused by toxic and highly hazardous metals that find their way from the Geosciences habitat into the body system. Human exposure to toxic minerals and metals in the current evolving society deserve a common collaboration by various specialists to make this dynamic Environment safe and secured for generations. Environmental health challenges can no longer be treated in isolation but by the combined efforts of diverse background. This synergy is crucial and inevitable among stakeholders to understand and eradicate various diseases in this highly dynamic and modern Environment.
Keywords: Geoscience, Environment, Public Health Medicine, Geogenic, Contamination
