the present paper has determined the radioactivity concentrations, which are due to natural occurrence of radionuclides along with heavy metal concentration in water, sediment, and fish from 2 reservoirs in ghana. heavy metal concentrations in all samples were generally within the who safe limits with the average activity concentrations of 238u, 232th, and 40k in water being respectively 0.42±0...

Health of every living being is dependent on level pollutant in the environment, weather condition, etc, which are interrelated and influencing each other. Presence pollution particles high percentage such as particulate matter size 10 2.5 (PM10, PM25) microns creates higher risk lung functionality, respiratory disease reduces cardio functionality; also affects quality water sources. Rainfall, ...

background: natural radioactivity, though natural requires concentration monitoring, especially for the health/ environmental checks of the populace. materials and methods: the activity concentrations of 40k, 238u and 232th in the waters from wells with depths ranging between 141.0 - 214.0 feet were randomly sampled and determined from 20 locations in ago-iwoye town in south western, nigeria. r...

background previous studies have mostly focused on socio-demographic and health-related determinants of health-related behaviors. although comprehensive health insurance coverage could discourage individual lifestyle improvement due to the ex-ante moral hazard problem, few studies have examined such effects. this study examines the association of a comprehensive set of factors including socio-d...

background: most of the studies have reported higher occupational health hazâ­ards on hazardous waste workers (hww). however reports regarding the assoâ­ciation between health hazards and pro-inflammatory cytokines in hww are scanty. the present study was undertaken to evaluate the relationship between occupational health hazards and serum pro-inflammatory cytokines in hww. methods: one hundred...

this study has been carried out to determine the accumulation of heavy metals (arsenic, copper, lead, tin and zinc) in fish samples collected from former tin mining catchment. total eight types of fish family having fifteen different species are identified. cyperinidae is the most abundant family with eight different species found in the catchment. fish samples were analysed by using inductivel...