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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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Selection of pesticides to reduce human and environmental health risks: a global guideline and minimum pesticides list.

Lancet Planetary Health, 2020
BACKGROUND Pesticides present widespread risks to human and environmental health, yet selection criteria for end-users that factor in differences in risk between compounds are scant.
P. Jepson, Katie Murray, Oliver Bach, M. Bonilla, L. Neumeister   +4 more
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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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Urban green spaces and their impact on environmental health: A Global Review

World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews
Urbanization has become an irreversible global phenomenon, with a majority of the world's population residing in cities. As urban areas expand, the significance of incorporating green spaces into these landscapes is paramount for environmental health ...
Blessing Aibhamen Edeigba, Ugochukwu Kanayo Ashinze, Aniekan Akpan Umoh, Preye Winston Biu, Andrew Ifesinachi Daraojimba   +4 more
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Strategies for grouping per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to protect human and environmental health

Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 2020
Grouping strategies are needed for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), in part, because it would be time and resource intensive to test and evaluate the more than 4700 PFAS on the global market on a chemical-by-chemical basis.
I. Cousins, J. DeWitt, Juliane Glüge, G. Goldenman, D. Herzke, R. Lohmann, Mark F. Miller, Carla A. Ng, M. Scheringer, Lena Vierke, Zhan-Yun Wang   +10 more
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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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Recommendations for the conduct of systematic reviews in toxicology and environmental health research (COSTER).

Environment International, 2020
BACKGROUND There are several standards that offer explicit guidance on good practice in systematic reviews (SRs) for the medical sciences; however, no similarly comprehensive set of recommendations has been published for SRs that focus on human health ...
P. Whaley, E. Aiassa, C. Beausoleil, Anna Beronius, G. Bilotta, A. Boobis, R. de Vries, A. Hanberg, S. Hoffmann, Neil Hunt, C. Kwiatkowski, Juleen Lam, Steven Lipworth, Olwenn V. Martin, N. Randall, L. Rhomberg, Andrew A. Rooney, H. Schunemann, D. Wikoff, Taylor A M Wolffe, C. Halsall   +20 more
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The impact of integrating environmental health into medical school curricula: a survey-based study

BMC Medical Education, 2020
Background Inclusion of environmental health (EH) in medical education serves as a catalyst for preparing future physicians to address issues as complex as climate change and health, water pollution and lead contamination.
B. Kligler, Genevieve Pinto Zipp, Carmela Rocchetti, M. Secic, E. Ihde   +4 more
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Bridging the Loneliness Gap: Depression, Connectivity, and Isolation in Pediatric Oncology Patients and Their Peers

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Loneliness is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes and remains understudied in children and adolescents undergoing cancer therapy. Pediatric oncology patients may be at increased risk due to medical isolation and disruption of social networks.
Charlotte N. Stahlfeld, Scott H. Maurer, Michelle D. Watkinson, John Nury, Elise Barberis, Molly C. Mack   +5 more
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Central Nervous System Tumors Among Infants in Canada: A Report From CYP‐C

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) tumors in infants are rare, pose unique clinical challenges, and lack large‐scale evidence‐based data to guide management. This study seeks to describe CNS tumors in Canadian infants and to compare their outcomes with those of older children.
Samuel Sassine, Hallie Coltin, Sylvia Cheng, Lucie Lafay‐Cousin, Vanan Issai Magimairajan, Craig Erker, Stéphanie Vairy, Lynette Bowes, Adam Fleming, Donna Johnston, Sarah McKillop, Roona Sinha, Julie Bennett, Christina Coleman, Laura Wheaton, Shayna Zelcer, Samuele Renzi, Thai Hoa Tran   +17 more
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