children s health and the environment in north america

... CHILDREN S HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT Indicators improve our understanding of the quality of the environment that in uences children s health, assist in assessing the effectiveness of our interventions ... indicators can play in assessing the status of an issue, raising its profi le, and tracking the progress of the issue relative to set goals The Cooperative Agenda states that the objective of the indicators ... select sources of indoor air pollutants and the associated respiratory illness and disease As illustrated in the MEME diagrams, some of the measures presented here address environmental sources of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20

... contains some useful assessments of the links between effective policies and health outcomes, notably in the area of accidents and injuries as well as other contexts By continuing the work and the ... links between the environment and health, policy analysis, feasibility-testing and consensus-building around the essential elements of the system The following steps were included • Setting the ... EHIS and its use for assessment and reporting at Region-wide level WHO is also facilitating the active involvement of Member States in developing the system, and ensuring the sharing of expertise...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... toxic pesticides available in the farming communities, and the hazardous ways of applying, storing and discarding them The children also assess the acute health effects suffered by their parents by ... population Schools aim to identify the toxic pesticides available in the farming communities, and the hazardous ways of applying, storing and discarding them The children also assess the acute health ... pesticides, including insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and rodenticides They differ from adults in their exposures and responses to exposures Acute and chronic toxicity are discussed, and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20

... industrial, and atmospheric pollutants, including pesticides; sexually transmissible diseases; and 'lifestyle' diseases, including obesity and cardiovascular disease risk; are of great current and potential ... Australia used with permission 17 Global Climate Change and Child Health INDISPUTABLE INCREASES IN GREENHOUSE GASES NASA 18 This graph shows the indisputable increases in carbon dioxide in the ... increase in the range and incidence of tick-borne encephalitis In the USA, there has been increases in a number of vector-borne illnesses Lyme disease is one of these The case rate per thousand has...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20

... CAUSES, RISK FACTORS AND HYPOTHESES BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES LEADING TO CANCER DEVELOPMENT EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT AND ITS CHALLENGES INVESTIGATING POTENTIAL CANCER CLUSTERS QUESTIONS FROM PARENTS

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:20

... Ptychodiscus brevis Paralytic shellfish poisoning Tingling, numbness in fingertips and lips, giddiness, staggering, incoherent speech, respiratory paralysis Saxitoxin gonyautoxin Alexandrium ... EFFECTS SUSCEPTIBILITIES Gastrointestinal disease Lung Disease Multi-system illnesses Death or Survival Critical windows/timing Age Nutritional status Poverty WHO 37 In this summary slide, we see the ... Mycotoxins Mycotoxins LEARNING OBJECTIVES To understand that exposure to mycotoxins is associated with some diseases in children To describe routes of exposure to mycotoxins To consider some of the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20

... to the children s environmental health issues addressed by the high-level international and regional forums that bring together health and environment ministers and other the Commission on Sustainable ... for the inclusion of children' s environmental health in international forums relating to child health and well-being, as well as international fora and processes addressing environment issues (i.e ... developing countries with WHO and other research organizations International workshops and meetings in developing countries sharing results of children' s environmental health research Results of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 11:20

... headaches, dizziness and weakness in healthy people Carbon monoxide also causes sleepiness, nausea, vomiting, confusion and disorientation At very high levels it causes loss of consciousness and ... numerous situations in homes and schools which may result in possible exposure to contaminants, such as second-hand tobacco smoke, spraying of insecticides, accumulation of pollutants in carpets, ... hydrocarbons, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones Sources: Solvents, fabric softeners, deodorizers and cleaning products Paints, glues, resins, waxes and polishing materials Spray propellants, dry cleaning...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... Ptychodiscus brevis Paralytic shellfish poisoning Tingling, numbness in fingertips and lips, giddiness, staggering, incoherent speech, respiratory paralysis Saxitoxin gonyautoxin Alexandrium ... EFFECTS SUSCEPTIBILITIES Gastrointestinal disease Lung Disease Multi-system illnesses Death or Survival Critical windows/timing Age Nutritional status Poverty WHO 37 In this summary slide, we see the ... Mycotoxins Mycotoxins LEARNING OBJECTIVES To understand that exposure to mycotoxins is associated with some diseases in children To describe routes of exposure to mycotoxins To consider some of the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 03:20

... chemistry, it is often easier to discuss each species separately The following series of slides recaps sources by species and briefly outlines the common routes of human exposure, toxicokinetics and ... METHODS: We enrolled 1047 children between the ages of and 10 years and administered standardized tests assessing 42 neuropsychological outcomes (We did not assess autism-spectrum disorders.) Exposure ... on the top shows Feer s Disease (another term for acrodynia) Notice the scaling of the skin between the fingers The photograph on the bottom of the slides also shows Feer s Disease Notice the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 23:20

... cockroaches, ants, termites, earwigs and other pests Signs and symptoms of pesticide-related-illnesses have been described after indoor and outdoor spraying •Domestic use of insecticides is also a source ... Pesticides in food: assessing the risk to children The Hague: Health Council of the Netherlands, 2004 Pesticides ROUTES OF PERINATAL EXPOSURE Mother s intake and body burden is transferred across the ... in substandard stores and sold along with food and drinks, etc Children are used in advertising sales of pesticides and often get easy access to pesticides They play with empty pesticide cans...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 02:20

... therefore summarizes the main environmental health issues in these countries From the outset, it was essential to work in harmony with other international bodies involved in assessing environmental ... shortcomings in the existing databases and systems for collection, collation, analysis and dissemination On many topics, reliable data for assessing health impacts could not be assembled Much information ... for the people in these countries Soon after the political changes, the CCEE and NIS started to act in many fields The first measures included liberalizing prices, eliminating subsidies, strengthening...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 19:20

... CHILDREN S HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT Indicators improve our understanding of the quality of the environment that in uences children s health, assist in assessing the effectiveness of our interventions ... indicators can play in assessing the status of an issue, raising its profi le, and tracking the progress of the issue relative to set goals The Cooperative Agenda states that the objective of the indicators ... select sources of indoor air pollutants and the associated respiratory illness and disease As illustrated in the MEME diagrams, some of the measures presented here address environmental sources of...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 02:20

... modifications Modal considerations – highways dominate concessions, though innovative rail has been seen; busways less successful to date 21 Infrastructure Concessions – Outstanding Questions External ... Concession – Project Characteristics Related to Success Rodriguez (1999) examines projects in Latin America – Buenos Aires Suburban Railway, BA Subway, BA Access Roads, Sao Paulo State Busway, Sao ... networks System Outputs Provides, for each link, data including traffic volumes, speeds, vehicle mix Emissions Model (i.e., MOBILE) 26 Land Use-Transport Models Land Use Land Uses (Activities) Prices...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 04:20

... Line s and – cost savings measures (initial construction costs) reduce integration with urban fabric 70 Line Line Line 31 Metro: Service Integration Despite minimal service integration, buses and ... Projects in Greater Santiago Upgrade of Ring Road (Vespucio) in North, Northwest Overpass/underpass on Kennedy Highway to the East (Las Condes) Major Road upgrades in Southeastern suburbs Completion ... Trips Walk Others Trips by Purpose Work: 36% School: 32% Other: 32% Work and school predominate during peak periods; others constant across day Source: Sectra, 1991 22 Taxis, Buses, Trucks Taxis...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 04:20

... the OLS regressions used in these studies, in many of them the reported estimates of the effects of mother s work may be misleading 3.2 Effects of women s employment on children s schooling The ... males in the household spend more time doing chores and less time in school (Levison and Moe 1998) In Indonesia, Pitt and Rosenzweig (1990) find that an infant s illness causes older girls in the ... mother s work status, sometimes without indicating if the correlation is statistically significant In some cases these analyses are refined by stratifying the sample on factors such as child...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20

... bodies causes these harmful efects in animals and in laboratory studies of cells Endometriosis Endometriosis is a disease that causes the tissue lining the inside of the uterus (called the endometrium) ... thyroid, the thymus, the pancrease, the adrenals and the testes (in males) or the ovaries (in females) The endocrine system works in coordination with the nervous system and the immune system to ... uterus looks and behaves like tissue that is normally found in the fallopian tubes; the tissue in the cervix is more like uterine tissue; and tissues in the vagina look and act more like tissues...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 14:20

... below These characteristics underscore the need to begin with an understanding of ecosystem components and processes in the humid tropics in moving toward more sustainable land uses Although the environmental ... protein), spices, medicines, resins, oils, gums, pest control agents, fuels, fibers, and forages for forest dwellers and small-scale farmers Many of the products used for subsistence purposes at the ... soils, waters, crops, animals, and pests Research can assess the benefits of aspects of traditional systems: their structure, genetic diversity, species composition, and function as agroecosystems,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... estimates It is possible that the mix of pollutants differs between different settings, and that this underlies the discrepancies in results Nevertheless, the inconsistency of the findings is ... experts invited by WHO prepared synthesis papers These were externally reviewed and subsequently discussed at a Working Group meeting The meeting provided a consensus assessment of the strength ... consistent in terms of the health outcomes and exposures assessed, and employ a wide range of analyses and reporting methods Recent studies have tended to be more sophisticated and to consider in...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20