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Environmental Health Resilience [PDF]
Environmental Health Insights, 2013 Global Human Populations The capacity of the Earth's environment to support increasing and expanding human populations has been questioned at least for hundreds of years, but never more than in the mid to late 20th Century and early 21st Century. Global human population now exceeds seven billion and continues to increase at an unprecedented rate ...
Tim Kelley
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Environmental Health Hazardscapes
Environmental Health Insights, 2013 The discipline of environmental health may be described as the identification and characterization of hazards and the development, implementation and evaluation of appropriate intervention strategies to limit physical, chemical, biological, sociological and other hazards and associated risks in our environment.
Timothy Kelley, Michelle Covi
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Environmental health in environmental protection [PDF]
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2000 The health of the population and the environment are inextricably linked. To improve both, a holistic approach is required for environmental protection procedures. The primary approach for improvement is integration; more specifically an increase in communication between official departments and agencies, and mechanisms for stakeholder involvement from
J, Spickett, E, Lindars
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Reproductive environmental health [PDF]
Current Opinion in Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2010 There is heightened recognition that the environment is an important driver of human reproductive health. This article provides an overview of the nature and extent of the science in the field of reproductive environmental health and its implications for OB/GYN clinical practice.Women of childbearing age incur ubiquitous contact to numerous toxic ...
Patrice, Sutton +2 more
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Journal of Epidemiology, 1996 The rapid industrial development that began in the 1950's created environmental problems which consequently led to health hazards among residents of heavily polluted areas in Japan, such as Minamata Disease and Yokkaichi Asthma. Faced with these situations, the Japanese national government and local environmental authorities exerted much efforts to ...
K, Maeda, H, Nitta
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Misunderstanding Models in Environmental and Public Health Regulation [PDF]
, 2010 Computational models are fundamental to environmental regulation, yet their capabilities tend to be misunderstood by policymakers. Rather than rely on models to illuminate dynamic and uncertain relationships in natural settings, policymakers too often ...
Fisher, Elizabeth +2 more
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Epigenomics in Environmental Health [PDF]
Frontiers in Genetics, 2011 This review considers the emerging relationships between environmental factors and epigenetic alterations and the application of genome-wide assessments to better define these relationships. First we will briefly cover epigenetic programming in development, one-carbon metabolism, and exposures that may disrupt normal developmental programming of ...
Christensen, Brock C., Marsit, Carmen J.
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Environmental Public Health Tracking [PDF]
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2015 Historically, public health professionals lacked the capacity to evaluate and conduct key investigations into the health of their environment. By bringing together environmental and health effects data from a variety of data sources, the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking) allows users to easily analyze and research the ...
Alex E, Charleston +4 more
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Promoting environmental health [PDF]
BMJ, 1996 The British government's white paper, Health of the Nation, received a cautious welcome on its publication in 1992.1 Its critics believed that its approach to health was limited, that it omitted many important issues such as the effects of environment and poverty, and that it implied ditching the World Health Organisation's comprehensive Health For All
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Acting on an Environmental Health Disaster: The Case of the Aral Sea. [PDF]
, 2001 The Aral Sea area in Central Asia has been encountering one of the world's greatest environmental disasters for more than 15 years. During that time, despite many assessments and millions of dollars spent by large, multinational organizations, little has
Small, I, van der Meer, J, Upshur, R
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