Introduction: Primary schools are children's first social environments. Other people's attitudes towards environmental hazards play a key role in developing children's personality. This study aimed to identify and assess the environmental risks (such as emission of pollutants into the air, discharge of pollutants into water and soil, energy consumption, etc.) in Shohadaye Kork female primary sc...

This study aimed to evaluate the concentration of heavy metals in liquid effluents and to quantify the mercury content in dental amalgam waste generated by dental clinics. Three neighbouring cities in Northeast Algeria were considered in this study (Constantine, Skikda, and Annaba). Heavy metals, such as Hg, Cu, Zn, Fe, Ni, Mn, Cr, Cd, and Pb, were analysed in wastewater and then compared with ...

Figures 1. Critical triangle of development outcomes 8 2. Environmental determinants of poverty outcomes 10 3. Burden of disease and environmental risks: Developing vs. developed countries 10 4. Potential climate change impacts 15 5. IBRD/IDA commitments by EA category, FY91-2001 19 6. IFC portfolio by environmental categories, FY92-2000 20 7. Environment strategy timeline 36 Tables 1. Burden o...

This report summarizes the Brazilian experience on the design and implementation of environmental health, with contributions from Argentina, Canada, and Cuba, presented at the International Symposium on the Development of Indicators for Environmental Health Integrated Management, held in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, on 17-18 June 2004. The methodology for the development of environmental health ...

for the purpose of assessing zargandeh waste water treatment risks, preliminary risk assessment and evaluation of safety were conducted. for this purpose air pollution and visual impact were assessed and scored after identifying the activities and various water treatment processes, equipment, and staff positions and the amount of pollution due to wastewater treatment plant. values were measured...

The objective of this paper is to identify theoretical questions and challenges for the public health field, especially the field of workers' health, raised by technological and environmental risks related to the workplace but going beyond it. Using industrial chemical risks as an example, the authors show the vulnerability of contemporary societies in handling such risks and the worsening situ...

by insects, ticks, and other arthropods and mechanical vectors (vehicles). Also included within the scope of part one are the development, implementation and evaluation of intervention strategies to prevent, control or eliminate arthropod disease vector viral hazards and associated risks. Part two of the Environmental Health Insights Disease Vectors supplement focuses on bacterial agents transm...