This paper gives an overview of the current and emerging environmental health risks and the projected challenges for the future. The aim is to create awareness and incite debate among Environmental Health Professionals on solutions for the risks and challenges as they celebrate the “World Environmental Health Day” to be held on 26 September, 2013. The environmental health risks have been classi...

this research was undertaken to evaluate and determine the risk of gas fluids and leakage of persian gulf star refinery on the environment in bandar abbas. through collection and compilation of research findings, we attempted to identify and work on factors leading to environmental risks. the risk factors were identified by hazop team and the risk score was calculated by multiplying the probabi...

One of the important factors influencing environment is agro-industrial production, mainly agriculture, which most characterized by physical and agrochemical degradation soil cover Ukraine, expressed in loss humus essential nutrients. The threatening process humus, content over past 20 years has decreased an average 0.22% absolute terms, balance negative. phosphorus-potassium regime soils deter...

I t has been more than 10 years since the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) reported that changes in diet and physical activity resulted in a larger reduction in the incidence of type 2 diabetes than medication alone (1). We have acquired abundant and well-replicated scientific evidence from national and international multisite, multiyear intervention trials showing the benefits of lifestyle ch...