Health promotion and disease prevention have huge impact on health, yet given low priority, risk being overlooked in universal health coverage efforts. To effectively prioritize promotion and prevention, strong cadres of personnel are needed with expertise in legislation and health policy, social and behavior change communication, prevention and community health, health journalism, environmenta...

In January of 2022 the coast Peru was affected by leak over eleven thousand barrels oil into sea. The company responsible for (Repsol) has taken measures in order to compensate environmental damage caused but there are also fines be applied against such entity. aforementioned include cleaning ocean as well donation provisions population that been directly accident, among others. Considering exp...

• The transportation and consumption of oil and natural gas in the continental United States may be directly affected by new regulations and legislation, including (1) the Clean Power Plan proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), (2) railcar rules proposed by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and (3) proposed laws related to the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline e...

This study aims to relate the recent trajectory of Brazilian environmental policies with last 20 years deforestation rates observed in Cerrado through PRODES-Cerrado monitoring initiative. The main hypothesis is that improvement legislation Brazil, mainly during period between 2005 and 2012, influenced decrease rates. In addition, control compliance, such as Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) a...

BACKGROUND Since Mexico's joining the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 1994, it has witnessed rapid industrialization. A byproduct of this industrialization is increasing population exposure to environmental pollutants, of which some have been associated with childhood disease. We therefore identified and assesse...

Environmental issues have received considerable attention in the literature over the past few years; consider, for example, Burrit (2004), Hopwood (2009), Hubbard (2009), Masanet-Llodra (2006), and Schaltegger and Wagner (2006), to name but a few. Several factors have motivated companies to investigate and improve environmental performance (Länsiluoto&Järvenpää, 2008). Stakeholders, such as cus...

This article discusses the Juvenile Justice Educational Enhancement Program's evaluation of juvenile justice education through the integration of multiple data sources. Validation of best practices and the corresponding effect of these practices on community reintegration require the development of a comprehensive database of program-level and individual-level indicators from several sources. T...