نتایج جستجو برای: health hazards

تعداد نتایج: 1007443  

Journal: :New South Wales public health bulletin 2007
Anthony J McMichael

This paper explores when and how considerations of population health have influenced the creation, planning and management of cities. Cities--now the dominant human habitat--must be planned and managed sustainably in a world that is manifestly experiencing increasing environmental and social strains. Early industrialisation entailed crowding, squalor and industrial environmental blight; the two...

Journal: :BMC Oral Health 2002
Anne Nordrehaug Åstrøm

BACKGROUND: This study identified optimistic biases in health and oral health hazards, and explored whether comparative risk judgements for oral health hazards vary systematically with socio-economic characteristics and self-reported risk experience. METHODS: A simple random sample of 1,190 residents born in 1972 was drawn from the population resident in three counties of Norway. A total of 735...

Journal: :international journal of agricultural science, research and technology in extension and education systems 2014
emerole c. o anyiro c. o

this study on farmers’ perception and management of natural hazards in production and security of farm investment was carried out in isuikwuato local government area of abia state, nigeria. the study was sought to identify farmers’ perceived natural hazards in food production; identify adopted measures used in mitigating impacts of the hazards and determined factors that influenced farmers from...

Journal: :Environmental Health Perspectives 1991
A van Faassen P J Borm

Water-based construction paints may have beneficial effects toward man's occupational and general environment when compared to traditional paints that contain large amounts of organic solvents. The aim of this study was to describe the health hazards of the application of these alternative paints. The composition of these paints was obtained by a questionnaire survey among the main producers an...

2017
Jinsong Chen Chris Bullen Kim Dirks

Background: Although some studies have identified hazardous substances in electronic cigarette (EC) liquids and emissions, there is limited information about the health risks of using ECs. Methods: In this study, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) health risk assessment model and findings of a literature review were used to determine and profile hazards. Focus was put on the toxican...

2017
Rasha Osman Abdelwahab Abdelmoneim Ranien Mohamed El Mortada Mahi Eldin Mahdi Rawia Moawia Elamin Elahmer Rogaya Adel Derar Elansary Safaa Elsafi Widaa Mohamed Said Hashim Ahmed Abdelgader Sakina Salah Abbasher Ahmed Sally Mohamed Alfatih Abdalrhman

The aim of this study was to determine the health hazards acquired by the residents nearby Soba sewage treatment plant. A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out in Soba locality, Khartoum, Sudan. An interviewer-administrated questionnaire was assigned to 462 residents of the area living in four geographically distributed squares around the sewage plant. The data was analyzed in SPSS;...

2015
Amalia Laborde Fernando Tomasina Fabrizio Bianchi Marie-Noel Bruné Irena Buka Pietro Comba Lilian Corra Liliana Cori Christin Maria Duffert Raul Harari Ivano Iavarone Melissa A. McDiarmid Kimberly A. Gray Peter D. Sly Agnes Soares William A. Suk Philip J. Landrigan

BACKGROUND Chronic diseases are increasing among children in Latin America. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS To examine environmental risk factors for chronic disease in Latin American children and to develop a strategic initiative for control of these exposures, the World Health Organization (WHO) including the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Collegium Ramazzini, and Latin American scienti...

Journal: :Emerging Infectious Diseases 1996
D Dalisera

equine encephalitis in BALB/c mice: kinetic analysis of central nervous system infection following aerosol or subcutaneous inoculation. A computer assisted molecular epidemiologic approach for confronting the reemergences of tuberculosis. Food and Drug Administration, in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the Pan American Health Organization/World ...

Journal: :Environmental Health Perspectives 1983
W G Thilly J Longwell B M Andon

The study of potential health effects of combustion effluents involves identifying the substances present and estimating the probable health hazards of each. Unfortunately, this second step cannot be done by using present techniques. Approximations of health hazards by bacterial and human cell assays are being used to set priorities for further biological studies and to suggest needs for modifi...

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