Setting a national environmental health research agenda requires broad public input, including that from leading scientists, health care professionals, and communities. Contributions from these diverse constituencies are essential to formulating a research and education strategy that both advances our understanding of the causes and mechanisms of environmentally related diseases and translates ...

planning of air pollution control programs need knowledge of pollutants emitting sources; the department of environmental health, school of public health, tehran university, performed an air monitoring program for a period of six months in 1976-77. a daily sampling was done from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., at ten different stations in metropolitan tehran. saltzman's sampling and analysis procedures were ...

The Sixteenth Street Community Health Center (SSCHC) in Milwaukee, Wis, is making a difference in the livability of surrounding neighborhoods and the overall health of the families it serves. SSCHC is going beyond traditional health care provider models and working to link the environment, the economy, and community health through urban brownfield redevelopment and sustainable land-use planning...

INTRODUCTION The green areas play an important role in improving the environmental quality and climate of the city. However, despite the undoubted importance of these areas, the benefits to public health are still under investigation. RESULTS The Authors perform a review of studies on the relationship between health and green areas and describe the main areas for which evidence on this relati...

1 Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Department of Counseling Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, and Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United State...

Practitioners are increasingly aware of the fact that providing for example drinking water disinfection technologies, improved toilets or handwashing facilities will fail to lead to the desired health effects if used inadequately or not at all. Evidence-based behavioural change must therefore be a major component of any mitigation effort. Hans-Joachim Mosler1, Alexandra Huber1, Jennifer Inauen1...

Existing spatial decision support applications, implemented using the most recent tools in the area of spatial information manipulation and Graphical User Interface development, do not consider, in its functional flow, the dynamic spatial implications of relating and processing this information. It is necessary to incorporate spatial reasoning into application control. This can be achieved by a...

BACKGROUND China has the biggest population in the world, and has been experiencing the largest migration in history, and its rapid urbanization has profound and lasting impacts on local and national public health. Under these conditions, a systems understanding on the correlation among urbanization, environmental change and public health and to devise solutions at national, local and individua...

A basic premise of this article is that the political and ethnic division of the city of Mostar imperils community health planning efforts beyond those normally encountered in the aftermath of war. Bosnia and Herzegovina is divided among ethnic groups, and the city of Mostar is further subdivided between the Croatian and Muslim interest groups. In that respect, Mostar presents a very special ch...