The Environment and Your Health

Your general practice environment can improve your community's health.

British Journal of General Practice, July 2008 choices between personal income and service development, can only be part of the solution. Addressing the inverse care law is made difficult by three other problems: first, the front line of this part of the NHS is largely hidden from external view, as a result of its geographically scattered nature, the lack of evidence, limited nature of routine ...

Your Health and Your Glands

Glands arc small parts of our bodies that profoundly influence our physical and mental states. They make some of us tall and others short. They give some of us pleasant voices and others voices that should be controlled even in the shower. They put hair on some chests, afifect our happiness or discouragements^ influence the rhythms of life of both men and women, and much more besides. Useful—an...

autism and the environment: how to manage environment to minimize the risk of your child's autism?

abstract autism is a developmental disability with age of onset in childhood (under 3 years old), which is characterized by definite impairments in social interactions, abnormalities in speech and stereotyped pattern of behaviors. due to the progress of autism in recent decades, a wide range of studies have been done to identify the etiological factors of autism. it has been found that genetic ...

Pharmaceutical Pollution in the Environment and Health Hazards

How’s Your Health? What’s Your Zip Code? Poverty and Health

Health Management and Policy F or centuries it has been known that there is a relationship between one's status within a social system and health. While the evidence for this is extensive and pervasive, we tend to block it out. However, traveling twelve miles on the Washing-ton Metro from downtown Washington, DC 20001 to Rockville, MD 20847 takes one on a trip of life expectancy ; life expectan...