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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 +6 more
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The association of exposure to PM 10 with the quality of life in adult asthma patients
International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2020 Objectives Air pollution has become a critical environmental issue, which severely threatens the well-being of asthma patients. The quality of life of these patients, when exposed to air pollutants such as particulate matter 10 (PM 10 ), has been poorly ...
Monika Ścibor +1 more
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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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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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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose Infants with cancer are rare and face unique challenges. Our study aims to describe the incidence of infantile cancers in Canada and to compare treatment‐related mortality (TRM) and their outcomes with those of older children. Methods We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the Cancer in Young People in Canada database ...
Samuel Sassine +22 more
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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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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are stressful or traumatic events prior to age 18 that are known to have a lasting impact on individuals’ health and well‐being. There is a gap in understanding the relationship between ACEs and Other Life Stressors and health status for adults with sickle cell disease (SCD).
Marsha Treadwell +8 more
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Airborne environmental injuries and human health. [PDF]
, 2006 The concept that the environment in which we live can have detrimental effects on our health has existed for centuries. Obvious examples of substances that can cause human diseases include infectious agents, poisons, chemicals and other noxious agents ...
Borchers, Andrea T +3 more
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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 +10 more
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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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