... the mental healthof staff should be part of company policy. Despite their concerns, however, less than 1 in 10 of these companies had an official policy on mental health. The aims of this booklet ... mental health, and health education of the workforce, e.g.mental health education within induction trainingprogrammes for new employees.● Descriptions of the roles and responsibilities of employees ... promotion of positive health behaviours which aim to keep staff fit to cope with thepressures of work. These may include provision of exercise andkeep-fit programmes, and the introduction of healthy...
... APPRAISAL OF THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION: Economic appraisal of the healtheffectsof air pollution. The Stationery Office, London, United Kingdom, 1999. 7. Evaluation and use of epidemiological ... lack of knowledge about the timing of air pollution effects (e.g. critical ages, duration of exposure and persistence of effects) will add uncertainty to the impact assessment of chronic effects. ... of the healtheffectsof air pollution over time; - providing indirect evidence of the plausibility of a longer term effect on health; - providing insight on factors (e.g. characteristics of...
... Epidemiology of the Unusual Smog Episode of October 1948. Public Health Service: Washington, DC, 1949.6. U.K. Ministry of Health. The Report of the Chief Medical Of cer on theState of Public Health. ... Analyses of Regional Dif-ferences in Short-Term Effectsof Air Pollution on Daily Mortality inAPHEA Cities. In Revised Analyses of Time-Series of Air Pollution and Health. Special Report; HealthEffects ... Analysis of Various Models of Short-Term Effectsof Ambient Particles on Total Mortality in 29 Cities inAPHEA2. In Revised Analyses of Time-Series of Air Pollution and Health. Special Report; Health...
... the mental healthof staff should be part of company policy. Despite their concerns, however, less than 1 in 10 of these companies had an official policy on mental health. The aims of this booklet ... infections. 2Mental Health in the Workplace 25/6/02 9:25 am Page 2 Health Development AgencyThe Health Development Agency offers a range of expertise on health issues, including mental health and well-being.Information ... great deal of stigma attached to mental ill- health despite the widespread prevalence of mental health problems. A survey carried out by Mind in 1996 found that of 778 people with mental health problems,...
... 47.7EL = 0.75 8BW = 27.1EL = 2.5 83-4.1Figure 1. Frequency Effects FREQUENCY / PHASE EFFECTSOF ANTENNASThe radiation patterns of the antennas presented in the previous section are for antenna ... direction of the antenna through space, the phase of radiating components is variedelectronically, producing a moving pattern with no moving parts. It can also be seen that increasing the number of ... seen that varying the phase of the two transmissions can causethe direction of the radiation pattern to change. This is the concept behind phased array antennas. Instead of having asystem mechanically...
... COMPLEXITIES IN RESOLVING GULF WAR AND HEALTH ISSUES Investigations of the healtheffectsof past wars have often focused on narrowly defined hazards or health outcomes, such as infectious diseases ... War and Health: A Review of the Medical Literature Relative to the Gulf War Veterans’ Health Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice 16 GULF WAR AND HEALTH ... president of the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding...
... understanding of the role of exposure to various pollutants in producing adverse effects on health and of the determinants of this exposure may improve the effectiveness of further action. An example of ... evaluation of the effectsof and changes in exposure. More research is needed on the patterns and adverse healtheffectsof population exposure and on the role of the different components of the ... of its adverse effects on health and to the prediction of the benefi ts of reducing this part of the total air-pollution mix. Initial estimates show that tens of thousands of deaths per year...
... and animal HealthEffectsof Particulate Matter Air Pollution C. Arden Pope III Mary Lou Fulton Professor of Economics Presented at EPA Wood Smoke HealthEffects Webinar ... his/her own control. Control for subject-specific effects, day of week, season, time-trends, etc.—by matching What we breath impacts our health Pure Air nitrogen (78%),Oxygen (21%), Argon, ... Am J Pub Health. 1989; Pope. Arch Environ Health. 1991When the steel mill was open, total children’s hospital admissions for respiratory conditions approx. doubled. mg/m3/Numbers of Admissions050100150200250300PM10...
... Health Promotion, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Of ce on Smoking and Health, 2006. 9 Bernstein J A, Alexis N, Bacchus H, et al. The healtheffectsof ... sources of air pollution can be categorized by type of source and by pollutant group, as shown in Table 1, which also depicts the main healtheffects Table 1 Sources and characteristics of varied ... pollutants and associated health effects 7Pollutant* Sources and characteristics Associated health effects Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)8A complex mixture of >4000 identifi ed chemicals...
... assessment of the respiratory healtheffects associated with passive smoking has been preparedby the Human Health Assessment Group, Office ofHealth and Environmental Assessment, Office of Researchand ... the Office ofHealth and Environmental Assessment (OHEA) withinthe Office of Research and Development, with major contract funding provided by the Indoor Air Divisionwithin the Office of Air ... Council's reports of 1986 7-317-6 Recent epidemiologic studies ofeffectsof passive smoking oncough, phlegm, and wheezing 7-327-7 Recent epidemiologic studies ofeffectsof passive smoking...
... num-ber of other areas of toxicology in which knowledge is needed to support a complete evaluation of the possible healtheffectsof RF exposure; these gaps are identified in the body of the ... Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the healthof the public. The Insti-tute acts under ... president of the National Academy of Sciences.The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding...
... Analysis of Various Models of Short-Term Effectsof Ambient Particles on Total Mortality in 29 Citiesin APHEA2; In Revised Analyses of Time-Series Studies of Air Pollution and Health; HealthEffects ... to mindthe oft-used analogy of “under the lamp post” in that PM effects are somehow determined by the mass-dose of PM.There is some discussion of size-based determinants of health effects, but ... LouFulton Professor at Brigham Young University. Douglas W.Dockery is a professor of environmental epidemiologyat the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health. Address...
... Epidemiology of the Unusual Smog Episode of October 1948. Public Health Service: Washington, DC, 1949.6. U.K. Ministry of Health. The Report of the Chief Medical Of cer on theState of Public Health. ... Studies of Air Pollutionand Health; Am. J. Epidemiol. 2002, 156, 193-203.120. HealthEffects Institute. Revised Analyses of Time-Series of Air Pollutionand Health. Special Report; HealthEffects ... the evaluation of the healtheffectsof PM at differenttime scales of exposure and in the exploration of theshape of the concentration-response function. The emerg-ing evidence of PM-related...
... Sensitive to the HealthEffectsof Carbon Monoxide? 6 Air Quality Standards for Carbon Monoxide 7 Sources of Carbon Monoxide 7 Health Effectsof Carbon Monoxide 7 Prenatal Effectsof Carbon Monoxide ... studies of its healtheffects find other pollutants present that may account for some of the effects. Part of the problem is due to the nature of the data being collected. The levels of particulate ... Challenge of Measuring Particle Pollution 8 Sources of Particle Pollution 9 Historic Air Pollution Disasters 9 Health Effectsof Particulate Pollution 10 Nitrogen Oxides 11 Health Effectsof Nitrogen...