Overview
- Detailed descriptions of specific health problems
- Covers a wide range of environmental factors
- Provides an analysis, using the most modern techniques and methods available
- Over 50 tables included
Part of the book series: Environmental Science and Technology Library (ENST, volume 22)
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The scope of environmental impact on reproduction is very large. It aims at covering all aspects of reproductive problems and their links to the environment. Therefore, it deals with female and male reproductive impairments, whatever their severity and their sites, gonad or extra-gonad. For women, effects include direct lesions of the oocyte, with possibilities of chromosomal abnormalities but also malformations of the reproductive tract. Reduced fertility and in some cases total infertility may also result from menstrual irregularities, which can at times include anovulatory cycles. Hormonal changes, even in the absence of menstrual irregularities may also lead to decreased fertility. In addition to congenital malformations, other impairments of the reproductive apparatus may occur, as in the polycystic ovarian syndrome or in endometriosis. Finally one can also include effects during pregnancy leading to spontaneous abortion, preterm delivery still birth or altered sex ratio. Impacts on age at menarche and age at menopause lead to a change in the duration of reproductive life.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Introduction: Environmental Impact On Reproductive Health, Recent Trends And Developments
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The Link Between Reproductive Health and Environment
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Reproductive Health Effects
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Pollutants and Exposure
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Policy Instruments and Issues
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reproductive Health and the Environment
Editors: P. Nicolopoulou-Stamati, L. Hens, C.V. Howard
Series Title: Environmental Science and Technology Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4829-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4828-9Published: 27 November 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7203-0Published: 25 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4829-6Published: 04 June 2007
Series ISSN: 1382-3124
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 392
Topics: Pharmacology/Toxicology, Environmental Health, Reproductive Medicine, Gynecology, Obstetrics/Perinatology/Midwifery