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Cross Sectional Study on Air Pollution and its Influence on Health Related Quality of Life in Coimbatore

International Journal of Medical Students
Background: The air quality inside and outside of buildings and structures is referred to as indoor air quality (IAQ), particularly as it pertains to the comfort and health of building occupants.
Dhaarani Dharmaraj, Fredrick Stephen, Nawin Jai Vignesh, Naveen Prabhu Jayaraj, Sugunadevi G   +4 more
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Health, Environment and the Burden of Disease: A Guidance Note [PDF]

, 2003
This guidance note examines the conditions which determine whether an environmental hazard is responsible for a substantial amount of disease and whether feasible measures are available to prevent it.

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Chemical Characterization and Source Apportionment of Household Fine Particulate Matter in Rural, Peri-urban, and Urban West Africa [PDF]

, 2013
Household air pollution in sub-Saharan Africa and other developing regions is an important cause of disease burden. Little is known about the chemical composition and sources of household air pollution in sub-Saharan Africa, and how they differ between ...
Agyei-Mensah, S, Arku, R E, Coull, B, Dionisio, K L, Ezzati, M, Fornace, K M, Ghana, Harvard, Howie, S, Hughes, A F, Imperial College London, Kerr, A S, Koutrakis, P, Spengler, J D, Vallarino, J, Verissimo, T G, Zhou, Z   +16 more
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Value‐Added Recycling of Beverage Carton Waste Into Thermoplastic Sandwich Structures With Enhanced Energy Absorption and Damping Properties

Polymer Composites, EarlyView.
Preparation of lightweight composite panels from multilayer beverage carton waste. ABSTRACT Beverage carton waste, a multi‐layer composite of cardboard, polymer, and aluminum, presents significant recycling challenges for conventional recovery technologies. This work presents a manufacturing process‐oriented method that allows shredded beverage cartons
Csenge Tóth, Róbert Nagy, Ábris Dávid Virág   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biological Pollution of Indoor Air, Its Assessment and Control Methods

Encyclopedia
The aim of the entry was to write a substantial contribution that analyses and compares the biological pollution of indoor air, the possibilities of its assessment and the control methods. In addition, the aim of our entry was to review journals covering
Natalia Stocka, Andrzej Butarewicz, Marcin Stocki, Piotr Borowik, Tomasz Oszako   +4 more
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Nutritional status and access to clean fuels: Evidence from South Asia [PDF]

Indoor air pollution due to solid fuels is among the ten most important risk factors in global burden of disease leading to respiratory diseases, anaemia, blindness and other disorders.
Bhagowalia, Priya, Gupta, Parul
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A walk in the park—Identifying healthy greenspaces using scents

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
As urbanisation accelerates globally, access to nature is increasingly recognised as vital for public health and wellbeing. We captured and analysed plant‐emitted airborne ‘scent signatures’ across Oxford's urban greenspaces to assess their potential health relevance.
William T. Kay, Anya Lindström Battle, Mahal Humberstone, Molly Tucker, Kieran E. Storer, Geoffrey Kite, Katherine Willis   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimation of the Global Health Impacts of Air Pollution [PDF]

, 2011
Air pollution is increasingly recognized as a significant contributor to global health outcomes. A methodological framework for evaluating the global health related outcomes of outdoor and indoor (household) air pollution is presented and validated for ...
Amann, M., Chirkov, V., Dentener, F., Heyes, C., Kinney, P., Klimont, Z., Kolp, P., Pachauri, S., Purohit, P., Rao, S., Riahi, K., Schoepp, W., van Dingenen, R.   +12 more
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Association of Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution with Hand-Grip Strength among Adults in Six Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 2019
Background Air pollution has been associated with various health outcomes. Its effect on hand-grip strength, a measurement of the construct of muscle strength and health status, remains largely unknown.
Hualiang Lin, Yanfei Guo, Zengliang Ruan, P. Kowal, Q. Di, Yang Zheng, Jianpeng Xiao, E. Hoogendijk, E. Dent, M. Vaughn, Steven W. Howard, Zheng Cao, Wenjun Ma, Z. Qian, Fan Wu   +14 more
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Pesticide exposure of operators during mixing and loading a drone: towards a stratified exposure assessment

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
Operators are exposed to concentrated formulation during mixing of pesticide into the nurse tank and to an in‐use dilution during loading the drone; stratification of exposure for mixing and loading would inform the exposure assessment approach by applying the appropriate dermal absorption considerations.
Edgars Felkers, Christian J Kuster, Georg Hamacher, Thomas Anft, Maxie Kohler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source