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Public Health Burden of E-waste in Africa

Journal of Health and Pollution, 2019
Background. Environmental impacts from informal e-waste recycling are increasing in Africa. E-waste handling and disposal exposes people to highly toxic cocktails of heavy metals, brominated flame retardants, non-dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls ...
Orish Ebere Orisakwe, Chiara Frazzoli, Cajetan Elochukwu Ilo, Benjamin Oritsemuelebi   +3 more
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Mapping Child Well-Being in Duval County, FL [PDF]

, 2011
Analyzes the distribution of neighborhood, education, and health/environmental opportunity; impact on health and education outcomes; demographics of those in Children's Commission programs; and marginalized neighborhoods' conditions.
Mikyung Baek, Samir Gambhir, So-young Lee   +2 more
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Challenges and Opportunities for Urban Environmental Health and Sustainability: the HEALTHY-POLIS initiative

Environmental Health, 2016
Cities around the world face many environmental health challenges including contamination of air, water and soil, traffic congestion and noise, and poor housing conditions exacerbated by unsustainable urban development and climate change.
S. Vardoulakis, K. Dear, P. Wilkinson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

IAQ and environmental health literacy: lived experiences of vulnerable people

Buildings & Cities
Like other environmental concerns that affect human health, indoor air quality (IAQ) needs to be understood not only scientifically but also by the citizens who are affected by it.
Connor Smith, Alice Drinkwater, Malina Modlich, Dan van der Horst, Ruth Doherty   +4 more
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Triclosan in water, implications for human and environmental health

SpringerPlus, 2016
Triclosan (TCS) is a broad spectrum antibacterial agent present as an active ingredient in some personal care products such as soaps, toothpastes and sterilizers.
Lamidi W. B. Olaniyan, N. Mkwetshana, A. Okoh   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Climate Change and Human Health in Africa in Relation to Opportunities to Strengthen Mitigating Potential and Adaptive Capacity: Strategies to Inform an African “Brains Trust”

Annals of Global Health
Background: Africa faces diverse and complex population/human health challenges due to climate change. Understanding the health impacts of climate change in Africa in all its complexity is essential for implementing effective strategies and policies to ...
Caradee Y. Wright, Thandi Kapwata, Natasha Naidoo, Kwaku Polu Asante, Raphael E. Arku, Guéladio Cissé, Belay Simane, Lynn Atuyambe, Kiros Berhane   +8 more
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Determinación ambiental de la salud: un reto para Colombia /Environmental health determination: a challenge for Colombia

Revista Facultad Nacional de Salud Pública, 2013
La sociedad actual se ha visto abocada a dar respuestas articuladas y con una visión integradora a los temas de condiciones de salud de la población, el cuidado de los recursos naturales y la generación de mecanismos de crecimiento económico ...
Juan C. García-Ubaque, Martha L. Vaca B, César A. García-Ubaque   +2 more
doaj  

Institutionalizing policy-level health impact assessment in Europe: is coupling health impact assessment with strategic environmental assessment the next step forward?

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
European Union (EU) Member States are interested in using health impact assessment (HIA) as a means of safeguarding their obligations to protect human health under the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam.
John Wright, Jayne Parry, Edward Scully
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Big Data-Driven Korean CHildren’s ENvironmental health Study (Ko-CHENS): Big-CHENS

, 2022
Jongmin Oh, Whanhee Lee, Jueun Lee, Suejin Kim, Choong-Hee Park, Seulbi Lee, Su Young Kim, Eun‐Hee Ha, Ko-CHENS Study group   +8 more
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Impact of Short-Term Exposure to Nitrogen Dioxide (NO₂) and Ozone (O₃) on Hospital Admissions for Non-ST-Segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome

Toxics
In the context of recent climate change, global warming, industrial growth, and population expansion, air pollution has emerged as a significant environmental and human health risk.
Andreea-Alexandra Rus, Silvius-Alexandru Pescariu, Adrian-Sebastian Zus, Dan Gaiţă, Cristian Mornoş   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source