The Public Health Exposome

Abstract

The exposome has been described by Wild as the measure of all of the exposures an individual has in a lifetime and how those exposures relate to health. The exposome represents the totality of exogenous (external) and endogenous (internal) exposures from conception onwards, simultaneously distinguishing, characterizing, and quantifying etiologic, mediating, moderating, and co-occurring risk and protective factors and their relationship to disease.