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The Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium – a protocol for building a national environmental exposure data platform for integrated analyses of urban form and health

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Multiple external environmental exposures related to residential location and urban form including, air pollutants, noise, greenness, and walkability have been linked to health impacts or benefits.
Jeffrey R. Brook, Eleanor M. Setton, Evan Seed, Mahdi Shooshtari, Dany Doiron, CANUE – The Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium   +5 more
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Nanomaterials in Food – Prioritisation & Assessment

EFSA Journal, 2019
Nanomaterials (NMs) are of significant economic interest and have a huge impact on many industries including the food industry. The main application in food industry includes food additives and food packaging.
ANSES‐ French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety, France, Eleni Anastasi, Gilles Riviere, Bruno Teste   +3 more
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Health Inspectors on Local Boards of Health: the Impact on Communities’ Environmental Health Governance

Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association, 2019
Background: This study examines whether having a required health inspector on a local board of health (LBOH) improves the board’s information on environmental health. Methods: Analysis uses the national random sample of 351 U.S.
Jeff Jones, Asli Aslan, Ginger Fenton
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Residues: Rethinking Chemical Environments

Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2018
This essay offers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impact of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. Environmental protection regimes tend to be highly segmented according to place, media, substance, and effect ...
Soraya Boudia, Angela N.H. Creager, Scott Frickel, Emmanuel Henry, Nathalie Jas, Carsten Reinhardt, Jody A. Roberts   +6 more
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Advancing Environmental Justice through the Integration of Traditional Ecological Knowledge into Environmental Policy

Challenges, 2023
As our planet faces more frequent and severe environmental threats due to climate change (including threats to biodiversity), environmental justice will be essential to ensure that the costs and burdens of combating these threats are shared equally ...
Jennifer B. Rasmussen
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Assessing the past and the present role of the National Nuclear Regulator as a public protector against potential health injuries: The West and Far West Rand as case study

Contree, 2011
Recent national and international news media articles and television programmes, official public domain Government and peer reviewed academic reports drew the international and national public’s attention to the health risks and hazards and impacts ...
Mariette Liefferink
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Exposure to polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) associates with genome-wide DNA methylation differences in peripheral blood

Epigenetics, 2019
In 1973, Michigan residents were exposed to polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) when it was accidentally added to farm animal feed. Highly exposed individuals and their children have experienced endocrine-related health problems, though the underlying ...
Sarah W. Curtis, Dawayland O. Cobb, Varun Kilaru, Metrecia L. Terrell, Elizabeth M. Kennedy, M. Elizabeth Marder, Dana Boyd Barr, Carmen J. Marsit, Michele Marcus, Karen N. Conneely, Alicia K. Smith   +10 more
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L’atelier pédagogique en urbanisme : apport des commanditaires à l’apprentissage par problèmes appliqués

Territoire en Mouvement, 2018
Professional studios in urban planning curricula are a moment of problem-based learning. This article is based on the tutoring experience of two first year studios in an urban planning Master’s programme.
Pedro Gomes, Sabine Bognon
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Exposure to polybrominated biphenyl and stochastic epigenetic mutations: application of a novel epigenetic approach to environmental exposure in the Michigan polybrominated biphenyl registry

Epigenetics, 2019
Endocrine-disrupting compounds are associated with altered epigenetic regulation and adverse health outcomes, although inconsistent results suggest that people have varied responses to the same exposure.
Sarah W. Curtis, Dawayland O. Cobb, Varun Kilaru, Metrecia L. Terrell, M. Elizabeth Marder, Dana Boyd Barr, Carmen J. Marsit, Michele Marcus, Karen N. Conneely, Alicia K. Smith   +9 more
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