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''Environmental Health Perspectives'' (''EHP'') is a peer-reviewed journal published monthly with support from the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). The primary purposes of ''EHP'' are to communicate recent scientific findings and trends in the environmental health sciences; to improve the environmental health knowledge base among researchers, administrators, and policy makers; and to inform the public about important topics in environmental health. For 2014 ''EHP'' has an impact factor of 7.98.〔(Journal Information, ''EHP'' website. Retrieved 2014-11-10 )〕 ''EHP'' publishes original research, reviews, commentaries, editorials, and news from a wide range of scientific disciplines encompassing basic research, human studies, and ''in vitro'' and ''in vivo'' research with a clear relationship to human health effects. The journal also publishes a bimonthly Chinese-language edition.〔(Journal Information, ''EHP'' website. Retrieved 2014-11-10 )〕 Research areas that are highly represented in ''EHP'' include epidemiology, toxicology, exposure science, risk assessment, public health, and climate change. In addition, each issue includes a section devoted to children's health research, and each year children's health is the focus of the October issue. ''EHP'' also addresses ethical, legal, social, and policy issues, as well as studies dealing with ecological issues or effects on wildlife when the relevance of their findings to human health is evident.〔(Journal Information, ''EHP'' website. Retrieved 2014-11-10 )〕 ''EHP'' is a fully open-access journal; its content is available free of charge online. ''EHP'' supports global environmental health research through its policy of open access and commitment to dissemination of research and information to the developing world.〔(Journal Information, ''EHP'' website. Retrieved 2014-11-10 )〕 As a publication of the Federal Government of the United States, ''EHP'' ''EHP'' charges no submission or publication fees. The journal provides Advance Publication versions of papers upon acceptance and deposits their content into PubMed.〔(Instructions to Authors, ''EHP'' website. Retrieved 2014-11-10 )〕 Through its presence on Twitter and Facebook, ''EHP'' publicizes new content, appearances at meetings, and news items of interest to the environmental health community. It also uses these platforms to engage with the public and increase awareness of environmental health issues. ==History== ''EHP'' was founded in 1972 as a vehicle for publishing conference proceedings in the nascent environmental health sciences. Its publisher, the NIEHS, had been established in 1969, and the inception of Earth Day in 1970 has been called the birth of the modern environmental movement. By the end of 1970, President Richard Nixon had signed the Clean Air Act Extension, which created regulatory programs governing National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), State Implementation Plans (SIPs), New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), and National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPs). In 1972 the Federal Water Pollution Control Amendments, or Clean Water Act, became law. With growing awareness of environmental health issues, the journal was conceptualized by then-NIEHS director David Rall as a means for rapidly disseminating information on the emerging field. Over the next 22 years the journal published 100 monographs, most of which arose from symposium or conference proceedings. ''EHP'' adopted its current monthly news and research format in 1993. The goal of the new format was to not only continue publishing the best environmental health research but also foster discussion among researchers and to educate the public about environmental health issues. "Traditionally, laboratory researchers have tended to communicate primarily with each other, and the dissemination of information to the public has been slow and haphazard," original ''EHP'' editors-in-chief Gary E.R. Hook and George Lucier wrote in an editorial introducing the inaugural issue of the reformatted ''EHP''. "It is clear that enhanced communications could contribute to the avoidance of environmental crises through both increased understanding of the underlying science and the identification of potential problems before they become overwhelming, expensive, and perhaps irreversible."〔(Hook GER, Lucier GW. Environmental Health Perspectives: a new beginning. Environ Health Perspect 100:317–319 (1993) Retrieved 2014-11-10. )〕 The addition of editorials, commentaries, correspondence, and news sections provided the desired forum for discussion of environmental health information. The restructured journal also introduced several new formats for the publication of scientific manuscripts: research articles, brief reports, and research advances. With the reformatted ''EHP'', symposium and conference proceedings were published separately as ''EHP'' Supplements. This daughter series was discontinued in 2008. Today ''EHP'' publishes occasional special reports, collections, and proceedings. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Environmental Health Perspectives」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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