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iScience, 2022 Summary: Air pollution seriously threatens human health, and its consequences are particularly prevalent among environmentally vulnerable or sensitive groups.
Z.H. Wang +8 more
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Développement Durable et Territoires, 2013 Environmental health considerations appear to have created a focal point for the local mobilization of indigenous and grassroots resistance to waste management.
Isabelle Hajek
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Sea turtles tend to accumulate high metal levels in their tissues and are considered excellent pollution bioindicators. Studies concerning metal contamination in hatchlings, however, are non-existent for one of the most abundant species in Brazil, green ...
Daphne de Albuquerque Bruno +19 more
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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 ...
Tracey J. Woodruff +2 more
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Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2019 This essay discusses documentation as a critical practice that links ethnography and activism. It describes the efforts of Nicaraguan sugarcane workers to use World Bank mediation and corporate social responsibility ‘mechanisms’ to call attention to the ...
Alex Nading
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Navigating public health chemicals policy in Australia: a policy maker’s and practitioner’s guide [PDF]
, 2012 Chemicals are ubiquitous in everyday life. Environmental health practitioners rely on a complex web of regulators and policy bodies to ensure the protection of public health, yet few understand the full extent of this web.
Adam Capon, James Gillespie, Wayne Smith
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The unpredictably eruptive dynamics of spruce budworm populations in eastern Canada
Population Ecology, EarlyView.We examine historical population data for spruce budworm from several locations through the period 1930–1997, and use density‐dependent recruitment curves to test whether the pattern of population growth over time is more consistent with Royama's (1984; Ecological Monographs 54:429–462) linear R(t) model of harmonic oscillation at Green River New ...
Barry J. Cooke, Jacques Régnière
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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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Network topology drives population temporal variability in experimental habitat networks
Population Ecology, EarlyView.Habitat patches connected by dispersal pathways form habitat networks. We explored how network topology affects population outcomes in laboratory experiments using a model species (Daphnia carinata). Central habitat nodes in complex lattice networks exhibited lower temporal variability in population sizes, suggesting they support more stable ...
Yiwen Xu +3 more
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Environmental health community service: Confronting the human resource challenges
SA Journal of Human Resource Management, 2019 Orientation: The environmental health graduates are required to complete community service before they could be registered as independent practitioners by the Health Professions Council of South Africa. Community service programme serves as the mechanism
Patience Mbola +2 more
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