环境与人类健康问题在国际上引起了整个地学界的重视.近年来地理学家、地质学家、土壤学家与医学家相结合,对这一问题从不同的角度进行了探索,并相继创立了许多新学科,如医学地理学、医学土壤学、医学地质学和环境地质学等。它们的共同特点是,把水文地球化学作为学科的组成部分或重要内容。这是因为天然水与生物界有着最密切的关系。事实证明,有许多的地方病和公害病都与环境、饮水直接有关。 Environmental and human health issues have drawn the attention of the entire academic community in the world.In recent years, geographers, geologists, soil scientists and medical scientists combined to explore this issue from different angles and have been created Many new disciplines, such as medical geography, medical pedology, medical geology and environmental geology. Common to all of them is the fact that hydrogeochemistry is an integral part of or important to the discipline. This is because natural water has the closest relationship with the biological world. Facts have proved that there are many endemic diseases and public health related to the environment and drinking water.