During the past two years an extensive and a very interesting program of malaria control has been in progress in the town of Chimbote, Peru. Chimbote lies on the cost of Perú about 250 miles north of Lima, and is, at the present time, a small fishing village of about 4,000 persons. Plans have been made to develop the Chimbote area into a large industrial center, and it is in connection with thi...

TT has hitherto been regarded as inevitable that the growth of industrial enterprise should bring with it both squalid ugliness and unhealthy conditions, and hitherto industrial districts have been able to develop their natural wealth only by sacrificing their natural beauties. The town of Doncaster, magnicently situated on the Great North Road, and surrounded by much pleasant agricultural coun...

Among various types of cities, mining cities have special features including a high concentration of industrial activities associated with the exploration, extraction, refining, processing and export of groundwater resources, the risk of reduction and termination of non-renewable resources, high degree of environmental pollution, high production of domestic and industrial waste and social issue...

The diets of 2340 middle aged men and women living in three English towns were recorded. Consumption of fat and the other main nutrients was lowest in the northern industrial town, which had the highest death rates from ischaemic heart disease and from all causes combined. The findings suggest that differences in diet in middle age are not a major cause of differences in adult mortality between...

سابقه و هدف: امروزه با گسترش فعالیت واحدهای صنعتی، غلظت آلاینده­ ها در هوا افزایش یافته انسان­ از طریق تنفس، بلعیدن جذب پوستی معرض آن­ها قرار می­ گیرند. میان تمام آلاینده ­ها، فلزات سنگین به دلیل ماهیت سمی خود بسیار مورد توجه متخصصان زیست ­محیطی گرفته ­اند. بالای محیط ­زیست، می ­تواند خطر اثرات نامطلوب بر سلامتی انسان را دهد. شهرک صنعتی ناجی زنجان ریخته ­گری مس آلیاژهای آن، ­عنوان یکی منابع انت...

BACKGROUND The present study assessed the temporal trend in serum concentrations of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans, and biphenyls (PCBs) among residents of a Russian town where levels of these chemicals are elevated due to prior industrial activity. METHODS Two serum samples were collected from eight adult women (in 2000 and 2009), and analyzed with gas chromatography-high-r...

To supplement epidemiological investigations into the mortality from respiratory cancer in the small industrial town of Armadale, central Scotland, spherical moss bags were used to study the deposition of atmospheric metal pollution there during a period of 17 months. High concentrations of most metals were found in areas close to the local steel foundry. High concentrations of some metals were...

Work consciousness plays an important role in creating the structure, behavior and function of the organization; under its shadow, structural factors of the organization are formed and it has an impact on behavioral factors (content, culture, values, perception and motivation). This study tries to investigate the relation between work consciousness and organizational identity and health. The me...