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aerospace medicine  

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  • Aerospace medicine is a branch of preventive medicine, or occupational medicine, concerned with the health and safety of aircrew and passengers exposed to the aerospace environment. Practitioners and researchers apply principles of atmospheric physics and environmental physiology in assessing an individual's fitness for flight, and develop aviation hardware to maximize aircrew and passenger safety. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Aerospace Medicine]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-TDPCM3LV-3

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