Significance for public healthRisk-based decision making is a core feature of government actions aimed at protecting public health from the adverse effects of environmental hazards. In the past, it has often been an expert-driven, mostly obscure process used by federal agencies to justify and defend regulatory decisions made outside the public arena. But the nature of decision making has change...

prevalence and diversity of non government organizations (ngos) is indicative of social and political maturity in any given society. nowadays, an important concern of ngos is their efforts in how to attract people’s participation in conserving the environment. to promote the participation of these organizations in the environmental conservation, need arises as to determine the factors influen...

objectives: cerebral palsy is the most common type of permanent movement and posture disorder in children leading to activity limitations. children's participation is influenced by their functional ability, skills, interests, and environmental factors. the objective of the study was to describe parent perception of environmental barriers to participation of children with cerebral palsy. me...

social media has quickly become an essential marketing and communication tool for private, public and non-governmental entities across the world to promote their organizational mission, daily events and publications. many citizens use social media to post or share real time photos on a variety of environmental issues such as pollution or littering, forest fires, reported chemical spills in wate...

objectives: the aim of this study was to translate the craig hospital inventory of environmental factors (chief) into persian language and to evaluate the validity and reliability of persian version of chief to use for children with cerebral palsy. methods: the chief was translated from english into persian based on the international quality of life assessment (iqola) approach. the persian vers...

this paper presents participation of faculties and heads of department (hods) in environmental education. for this purpose 60 hods/faculties from polytechnic colleges of tamilnadu, india and 100 hods/ faculties from associate degree level technical institutions in iran from civil engineering branch were selected. several hypotheses were formulated to achieve certain objectives of the study. th...