children s health and the environment indicators initiative

... INDICATOR-BASED ASSESSMENT AND THE QUESTIONS IT ANSWERS Children s health and the environment in Europe: a baseline assessment is based on policy-relevant indicators and information available in the system ... Member States EHIS outcomes Objectives of the CEHAPE indicator-based assessment and the questions it answers PART I ASSESSMENT OF THE SITUATION AND PROGRESS TOWARDS THE RPGS CHAPTER CLEAN WATER – ... indicator-based assessment of children s health and the environment in the WHO European Region in the context of the Children s Environment and Health Action Plan for Europe The assessment provides a baseline...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... effects of chemicals on children' s health (e.g nurses, physicians, primary health care workers) Those who will help in assessing environmental issues should also be educated •Raising the awareness ... dengue and other vector-borne diseases relies to a great extent on the use of pesticides, and this increases the risk of children' s exposure to these products used either at home or in the context ... aldehydes, ketones Sources: Solvents, fabric softeners, deodorizers and cleaning products Paints, glues, resins, waxes and polishing materials Spray propellants, dry cleaning fluids Pens and markers...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20

... Stress Disorder after Hurricane Andrew in the south-eastern USA found that children are 2-3 times more likely than adults to suffer symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder and that these symptoms ... increase the risks of death and serious illness The very old, the very young and the sick are particularly vulnerable to thermal stress Children are less able than adults to modify their local (usually ... 24.0% and 67.8% The in vitro activity of 19 other antimicrobials was assessed against all study isolates Overall rates of resistance among selected agents in the United States and Canada, respectively,...

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

... airways symptoms, some studies demonstrate the presence of general symptoms that include fatigue and headache and symptoms from the central nervous system At excessive exposures, an increased risk ... 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 ... changes in function to death Children s environmental health is the field that synthesizes these complex issues and attempts to make fundamental changes to improve children s environments and prevent...

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 ... government and scientists around certain children s health and environment issues Encourage government (s) to develop hotlines and websites to communicate to the public on children s health and the environment ... conventions and their country-level implementation Conduct cost studies to estimate the cost of disease and disability from diseases linked to the environment and the benefits of expected actions and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 11:20

... pet dander, molds, gases and aerosols from consumer products such as cleaners and furniture polishes, pesticides, and other gases and vapors associated with combustion sources in the home Outdoor ... 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

... 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 ... cleaning products Paints, glues, resins, waxes and polishing materials Spray propellants, dry cleaning fluids Pens and markers Binders and plasticizers Cosmetics: hair sprays, perfumes www.epa.gov/oppfead1/cb/10_tips/ ... to be significantly associated with SBS symptoms Allergic history was more associated with narrow-sense symptoms and odor perception with broad-sense symptoms The results indicate that the broad...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... airways symptoms, some studies demonstrate the presence of general symptoms that include fatigue and headache and symptoms from the central nervous system At excessive exposures, an increased risk ... 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 ... changes in function to death Children s environmental health is the field that synthesizes these complex issues and attempts to make fundamental changes to improve children s environments and prevent...

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 ... 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 ... increases One study suggested diastolic blood pressure in boys may be associated with prenatal methylmercury exposure, but the association needs more study The full expression of these health...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 23:20

... a rural issue Pesticides CHILDREN S ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE CHILDREN Pesticides in: homes and schools, playgrounds, parks fields, hospitals and other public places Children in: farms, agricultural ... action is by targeting systems or enzymes in the pests which may be identical or very similar to systems or enzymes in human beings and therefore, they pose risks to human health and the environment ... environmental transport and fate of pesticides Routes and circumstances of exposure Exposure levels Toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics Target organs and systems Diagnosis and treatment of poisoning...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 02:20

... observed exposure levels and possible health effects Mercury Toxic and carcinogenic effects Exposure Tissue levels Evaluation of observed exposure levels and possible health effects Pesticides ... inefficient and polluting industries, which need to be closed In the short term, strict sequencing and prioritization of tasks are necessary and investments should address the most serious health ... processes have encompassed all aspects of the economies and societies concerned, although conditions, the pace of change, and its results and problems may differ considerably between countries The...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 19:20

... adjustment and recession government subsidies for education were often reduced, as the authors of several of these studies note This raised the cost of schooling to households Since there is some ... labor supply decisions Given the potential for simultaneity bias in the OLS regressions used in these studies, in many of them the reported estimates of the effects of mother s work may be misleading ... determines health outputs, health inputs, and demands for other goods, including leisure (hence the labor supply of the mother and others is determined as well) See Glick and Sahn (1998) Sometimes this...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20

... health science The second is a venue for researchers to share tissue banks, study samples, data sets and other research tools used in human and animal studies (More information on these tools ... rates of reproductive organ cancers as they grow older DESGranddaughters Menstration Ovaries Uterus DES-Grandsons Penis Rete Testis Seminal Vesicles Prostate DESGranddaughters Ovaries Uterus Immune ... receptors, thus blocking vital biological messages and responses These chemicals can also send artiicial messages and cause undesireable biological responses Lastly, endocrine disrupting chemicals...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 14:20

... 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 ... countries to produce the same pattern of results Consistency of the studies The studies reviewed differed substantially in design and measurements, and it is likely that this affected the consistency ... requires it to be thoroughly and systematically analysed, looking for logical links between studies that point to causal associations between exposures and health effects Such synthesis furnishes the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20

... awareness among some local residents and holiday visitors causes littering of the beaches and the desert, i.e Plastic bags, paper, cans, bottles and fishing lines Legislation in Namibia Currently the ... comes from rainwater flowing through landfill sites where hazardous waste has been disposed of by individuals and industry Although special waste disposal sites exist at Windhoek and Walvis Bay they ... manufacture items like transformers, pumps, plastics, paints and adhesives They are long-lived and highly toxic in the environment and not break down easily under natural processes Thus they tend to...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 21:20

... hold down the increases in the total emissions of greenhouse gases.73 The extraction, processing, transport, and use of fossil fuels affects habitat, landscapes, ecosystem health, water and air ... 1,500 of the world s leading ecologists and social scientists to analyze data on the state of the world s ecosystems, assess nature s ability to provide essential functions such as food and clean ... report; and the researchers did not present the results in a format policymakers could understand and use.108 One of the lessons of the Global Assessment Report was that researchers and policymakers...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 21:20

... the tubes, heating the seawater inside The stage remains at a constant temperature and pressure and is essentially selfregulating The seawater temperature increases progressively as it passes ... distilled water side of the process is generally higher pressure than the saline side The process releases dissolved gases from the seawater; these include air and carbon dioxide The gases are vented ... based targets This includes assessment of design criteria for new systems as well as modifications Measures to monitor and control identified risks (and deficiencies) and ensure that healthbased...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 02:20

... low-cost heating and making posters The incidence of diarrhoeal diseases has dropped and recycling covers the costs of the actions Lessons to be shared The panel of ministers and the EU representative ... institutions; • promote specific initiatives on emerging issues; • establish ad hoc working groups, task forces and other bodies, as necessary, on a temporary basis to address specific needs and ... institutions and other actors to identify best practices and promoting training on risk assessment tools in the health sector and risk management techniques, including rapid assessment tools;...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:22