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... COMPLEXITIES IN RESOLVING GULF WAR AND HEALTH ISSUES Investigations of the health effects of 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...

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... APPRAISAL OF THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION: Economic appraisal of the health effects of 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 health effects of 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...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 11:20

... 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 effects of and changes in exposure. More research is needed on the patterns and adverse health effects of 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...

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... 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 the State of Public Health. ... Analyses of Regional Dif- ferences in Short-Term Effects of Air Pollution on Daily Mortality in APHEA Cities. In Revised Analyses of Time-Series of Air Pollution and Health. Special Report; Health Effects ... Analysis of Various Models of Short- Term Effects of Ambient Particles on Total Mortality in 29 Cities in APHEA2. In Revised Analyses of Time-Series of Air Pollution and Health. Special Report; Health...

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... and animal Health Effects of Particulate Matter Air Pollution C. Arden Pope III Mary Lou Fulton Professor of Economics Presented at EPA Wood Smoke Health Effects 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. 1991 When the steel mill was open, total children’s hospital admissions for respiratory conditions approx. doubled. m g/m 3 /Numbers of Admissions 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 PM 10 ...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 11:20

... 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 health effects of ... 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 health effects Table 1 Sources and characteristics of varied ... pollutants and associated health effects 7 Pollutant* Sources and characteristics Associated health effects Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) 8 A complex mixture of >4000 identifi ed chemicals...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... assessment of the respiratory health effects associated with passive smoking has been prepared by the Human Health Assessment Group, Office of Health and Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and ... the Office of Health and Environmental Assessment (OHEA) within the Office of Research and Development, with major contract funding provided by the Indoor Air Division within the Office of Air ... Council's reports of 1986 7-31 7-6 Recent epidemiologic studies of effects of passive smoking on cough, phlegm, and wheezing 7-32 7-7 Recent epidemiologic studies of effects of passive smoking...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20

... num- ber of other areas of toxicology in which knowledge is needed to support a complete evaluation of the possible health effects of 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 health of 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...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 15:20

... Analysis of Various Models of Short-Term Effects of Ambient Particles on Total Mortality in 29 Cities in APHEA2; In Revised Analyses of Time-Series Studies of Air Pollution and Health; Health Effects ... to mind the 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 ... Lou Fulton Professor at Brigham Young University. Douglas W. Dockery is a professor of environmental epidemiology at the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health. Address...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20

... 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 the State of Public Health. ... Studies of Air Pollution and Health; Am. J. Epidemiol. 2002, 156, 193-203. 120. Health Effects Institute. Revised Analyses of Time-Series of Air Pollution and Health. Special Report; Health Effects ... the evaluation of the health effects of PM at different time scales of exposure and in the exploration of the shape of the concentration-response function. The emerg- ing evidence of PM-related...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... Sensitive to the Health Effects of Carbon Monoxide? 6 Air Quality Standards for Carbon Monoxide 7 Sources of Carbon Monoxide 7 Health Effects of Carbon Monoxide 7 Prenatal Effects of Carbon Monoxide ... studies of its health effects 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 Effects of Particulate Pollution 10 Nitrogen Oxides 11 Health Effects of Nitrogen...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20

... The weight of the evidence from a wide range of health studies suggests that these low levels of air pollution are at worst a minor health concern. Asthma provides a signal example of how conventional ... wide range of health studies suggests that these low levels of air pollution are at worst a minor health concern. doeS air Pollution cauSe aSthma? Asthma provides a signal example of how conventional ... created public fear of air pollution out of all proportion to the actual risks suggested by the underlying health studies. Regulators, journalists, and even health professionals also frequently...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... Causes of Death in the U.S. between 1950 and 2000 Rank Year 1950 1980 2000 Cause of death % a Cause of death % a Cause of death % a 1 Disease of heart 40.5 Disease of heart b 39.6 Disease of heart b 29.6 2 ... presence of a growing number of endocrine disrupters in the environment. These changes have profound impacts on the health and well- being of living organisms. Literature dealing with some of these ... rain. 9 Furthermore, consumption of crude oil has also increased, with the average rate of increase of 6% per year in the past decades. Part of this increase is the result of the growing use of motor vehicles,...

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Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 13:22

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 13:22

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 13:22

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 13:22