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Descriptor English: Environmental Monitoring
Descriptor Spanish: Monitoreo del Ambiente
Descriptor Portuguese: Monitoramento Ambiental
Descriptor French: Surveillance de l'environnement
Entry term(s): Environmental Surveillance
Monitoring, Environmental
Surveillance, Environmental
Tree number(s): N06.850.460.350.080
N06.850.780.375
SP2.001.030.040
SP2.036.010.008
SP4.102.072.092.693.364
SP4.102.072.573.954
SP4.127.413.629.885
SP5.006.067.100.150
SP8.473.654.412.052.005.030.050.010
VS4.001.001
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004784
Scope note: The monitoring of the level of toxins, chemical pollutants, microbial contaminants, or other harmful substances in the environment (soil, air, and water), workplace, or in the bodies of people and animals present in that environment.
Annotation: do not confuse with EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING
Allowable Qualifiers: EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
Previous Indexing: Environmental Exposure (1967-1985)
Public MeSH Note: 86
History Note: 86
Entry Version: ENVIR MONITORING
Related: Ecological Parameter Monitoring MeSH
Environmental Damage Minimization DeCS
Environmental Quality Standards DeCS
Polluter-Pays Principle DeCS
DeCS ID: 28017
Unique ID: D004784
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1986/01/01
Date of Entry: 1985/06/18
Revision Date: 2013/07/08
Environmental Monitoring - Preferred
Concept UI M0007512
Scope note The monitoring of the level of toxins, chemical pollutants, microbial contaminants, or other harmful substances in the environment (soil, air, and water), workplace, or in the bodies of people and animals present in that environment.
Preferred term Environmental Monitoring
Entry term(s) Environmental Surveillance
Monitoring, Environmental
Surveillance, Environmental



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