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Exposures in Indoor Air Affecting Health

open access: yesAllergy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Indoor air quality (IAQ) is influenced by a wide range of chemical, biological and physical agents that can negatively impact physical, immunological and mental health. Adverse health effects depend on the type and concentration of pollutants, duration of exposure, and individual susceptibility.
Maria Hartiala   +38 more
wiley   +1 more source

Haunted by Houses: Built and Lived Absences in a Transnational Mexican Community

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Globally, millions of migrants have sent money home to build a house. In early phases of migration, remittance houses are aspirational objects that materialize the continuous belonging of migrants to a community. In later stages, experiences of loss, estrangement, deportation, and death increasingly challenge these attachments.
Julia Pauli
wiley   +1 more source

Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates

open access: yesThe Economic Journal, EarlyView., 2018
The negative consequences of long‐term exposure to particulate pollution are well established but a number of studies find no effect of short‐term exposure on health outcomes. The high correlation of industrial pollutants complicates the estimation of the impact of individual pollutants on health.
Timothy J. Halliday   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Breathing Life Flows Through Chaos: Reconfiguring the Effectiveness of Five‐Finger Breathing in Mental Health First Aid

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article questions the moral and causal certainties attributed to the clinical assumptions of the breath of chaos. Instead of seeing chaos as an exceptional intruder that causes problems in health, I suggest that chaos underlines the changing conditions of health and it's an intrinsic part of breathing and everyday life. I discuss the five‐
Yuxin Peng
wiley   +1 more source

Retrograde Cricopharyngeal Dysfunction: Patient Characteristics and Outcomes in Australia

open access: yesANZ Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Retrograde cricopharyngeal dysfunction (RCPD) is characterised by an inability to burp. Typical first‐line management involves injection of Botulinum A toxin (BonT‐A) into the cricopharyngeus. We present our series of 109 RCPD patients.
Zhou Hao Leong   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Low frequency noise and annoyance.

open access: yesNoise & health, 2004
Low frequency noise, the frequency range from about 10 Hz to 200 Hz, has been recognised as a special environmental noise problem, particularly to sensitive people in their homes. Conventional methods of assessing annoyance, typically based on A-weighted equivalent level, are inadequate for low frequency noise and lead to incorrect decisions by ...
openaire   +1 more source

Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence: Reflections on Listening, Solidarity, and Decoloniality in Myanmar's Borderlands

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
wiley   +1 more source

An Ethics Framework for Medical Assistance in Dying: Supporting Ethical Decision‐Making in the Practice of MAiD

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents an Ethics Framework for MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) to support the integration of evidence‐informed, values‐based, inclusive and transparent ethical decision‐making into everyday MAiD practice. As with other areas of clinical practice, ethical decision‐making is an intrinsic part of MAiD.
Andrea N. Frolic, Tim Holland
wiley   +1 more source

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