Health and Environment

Urban green spaces assessment approach to health, safety and environment

The city is alive with dynamic systems, where parks and urban green spaces have high strategic importance which help to improve living conditions. Urban parks are used as visual landscape with so many benefits such as reducing stress, reducing air pollution and producing oxygen, creating opportunities for people to participate in physical activities, optimal environment for children and decreas...

Pharmaceutical Pollution in the Environment and Health Hazards

Environment and health.

To evaluate the effectiveness of a superactivated charcoal (SAC) in alleviating mycotoxicosis, two experiments were conducted in which 432 male broiler chicks (216 per experiment) were fed diets containing 4 mg aflatoxin (AF) or 6 mg T-2 toxin/kg of diet, with and without 0.5% SAC, from 1 to 21 d of age. Feeding AF and T-2 toxin significantly decreased BW gain over the 21-d experimental period....

Mental Health and Environment

Research begins with a question. The authors chose a large one. This wa5,; g their own words: "How far is mental illness due to deep-seated causes, patter", | into the mind by genetic factors or powerful experiences of early environ^f. j within the uterus or in the first years of life? And how far is it due to the imm^'3 environment of house and family, work and community?" I In medicine and th...

Environment and Health

Salmonella typhimurium colonization, pH, and density of ceca were measured in 3-, 5-, and 6-wk-old broilers fed either a control ration or rations with added fructooligosaccharides (FOS) or lactose derivatives (LD). The purpose was to compare dietary crude FOS from Jerusalem artichokes with refined FOS and two LD for ability to reduce Salmonella colonization as determined by semi-quantitative p...