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Pesticides, which are widely used not only for weed and pest control efforts in agricultural sector but also preservatives and antifouling for factory products, consumer products such as household disinfectants and food packaging and storage operations, can be detected both from the basic components of the environment and all living tissues. Due to the toxic effects, they can lead to many chronic irreversible diseases such as cancer, defective births, nervous system disorders, endocrine system disorders including diabetes. Not only the risk groups in the community including children, the elderly, pregnant women, and particularly the agricultural sector workers, who have high risk of exposure to pesticides, but also all the individuals in the community must be protected against the harmful effects of pesticides. For this reason, when fighting against the pests, integrated pest management principles, which primarily targets not damaging the humans and community as well as the environment and other organisms, should be based on. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The evaluation of human beings' interactions with their environment, interpretation and implementation of community preventive practices in the form of necessity increases the responsibility for public health professionals nowadays, when the human health effects of environmental impressions are increasing each day. By this review, the concepts of environmental health, environmental medicine, and the environmental health issues, which should be included in the education of public health expertise, is presented in the suggestion of a conceptual framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]