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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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Health Literacy, Self‐Efficacy and Knowledge of Sickle Cell Disease Among Caregivers

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a hereditary blood disorder in which abnormal haemoglobin leads to severe anaemia, painful crises and organ failure. Caregivers’ health literacy (HL) – their ability to assess, understand and apply information, and interact with healthcare professionals – is crucial for managing children with SCD, yet ...
Melanie Bruinooge, Maite E. Houwing, Rowena L. Grohssteiner, Ferdows Atiq, Sonja A. M. C. Teuben, Mirjam P. Fransen, Marjon H. Cnossen   +6 more
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Leukemia and Exposure to Potential Benzene Sources in Children From the Mexico City Metropolitan Area, 2010–2021: A Geospatial Analysis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Leukemia is the most common childhood cancer in Mexico, and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most frequent subtype. Exposure to high concentrations of benzene has been associated with ALL incidence, particularly in urban areas. This study evaluated the relationship between distance to benzene emission sources and the number
Orlando Rivera Zurita, Norma Candelaria López Santiago, Claudia Maria García Cuellar, Karla Maldonado Silva, Nancy Reynoso Noverón, Leticia Hernández Cadena   +5 more
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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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Early Impact of Childhood Opportunity on Neurocognitive Outcomes in Sickle Cell Disease

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Neurocognitive impairment is a well‐recognized complication of sickle cell disease (SCD) that begins early in childhood and persists across development. While cerebrovascular injury contributes substantially to risk, neurocognitive deficits are also observed in children without overt or silent cerebral infarctions, suggesting ...
Julia E. LaMotte, Hannah Koch, Olivia A. Coughlin, Jillian R. Bouck, Allie Carter, Seethal A. Jacob   +5 more
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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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