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Tài liệu Gulf War and Health: Volume 4. Health Effects of Serving in the Gulf War docx

Tài liệu Gulf War and Health: Volume 4. Health Effects of Serving in the Gulf War docx

Ngày tải lên : 16/02/2014, 01:20
... MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI GEORGE W RUTHERFORD, MD, Professor, Vice-Chair, Department of Epidemiology ... Division of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA CAROL A TAMMINGA, M.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas, ... 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 (for example, typhoid...
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Tài liệu Quantification of the Health Effects of Exposure to Air Pollution: Report of a WHO Working Group pdf

Tài liệu Quantification of the Health Effects of Exposure to Air Pollution: Report of a WHO Working Group pdf

Ngày tải lên : 17/02/2014, 11:20
... studies on health effects of air pollution to estimates of ambient pollution concentrations in the locale of interest The Working Group was not requested to perform a critical review of the health ... quantifying the effects of short-term variation of pollution, including air pollution episodes; - serving as the basis for air pollution alert systems; - periodic assessments of the health effects of air ... costing the health impacts of ambient particulate air pollution in the UK Edinburgh, December 2000 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AD-HOC GROUP ON THE ECONOMIC APPRAISAL OF THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION:...
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Tài liệu Health effects of transport-related air pollution ppt

Tài liệu Health effects of transport-related air pollution ppt

Ngày tải lên : 17/02/2014, 11:20
... Centre for Environment and Health, Bonn, WHO Regional Ofce for Europe Per E Schwarze Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway Radim J rỏm Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of ... Centre for Environment and Health, Rome, WHO Regional Ofce for Europe Emilia M Niciu Institute of Public Health, Bucharest, Romania Francesca Racioppi WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, ... Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of Germany and the Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscapes of Swtizerland For this support, and for the contributions of...
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Tài liệu Health Effects of Fine Particulate Air Pollution: Lines that Connect pdf

Tài liệu Health Effects of Fine Particulate Air Pollution: Lines that Connect pdf

Ngày tải lên : 17/02/2014, 11:20
... Epidemiology of the Unusual Smog Episode of October 1948 Public Health Service: Washington, DC, 1949 U.K Ministry of Health The Report of the Chief Medical Of cer on the State of Public Health Her ... 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 ... Analysis of Various Models of ShortTerm 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 Effects...
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Tài liệu Health Effects of Particulate Matter Air Pollution pptx

Tài liệu Health Effects of Particulate Matter Air Pollution pptx

Ngày tải lên : 17/02/2014, 11:20
... (months-years) Controlled experimental human and animal Southern California Children’s Health Study Effects of air pollution on children’s health, especially lung function growth David Bates, Advisor ... admissions concentrations Sources: Pope Am J Pub Health. 1989; Pope Arch Environ Health 1991 Sources: Pope Am J Pub Health. 1989; Pope Arch Environ Health 1991 Mill Closed This presentation not organized ... Controlled experimental human and animal Panel studies of asthmatics and non-asthmatics Summary of early Utah Valley epidemiological studies Health effects • Increased hospital admissions • Increased...
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Tài liệu Respiratory health effects of indoor air pollution docx

Tài liệu Respiratory health effects of indoor air pollution docx

Ngày tải lên : 17/02/2014, 22:20
... Center for Health Promotion, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2006 Bernstein J A, Alexis N, Bacchus H, et al The health effects of ... amount of time that children and/ or women spend in proximity to fires is the crucial determinant of the health impact of indoor air pollution.20 For other health outcomes, the adverse effects of ... The adverse effects on respiratory health of products of incomplete solid-fuel combustion are summarized in Table 2, which also includes some of the known or proposed mechanisms of damage Exposure...
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Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents docx

Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents docx

Ngày tải lên : 14/03/2014, 09:20
... community, health system, and policy levels Goals of Bright Futures Ⅲ Enhance health care professionals’ knowledge, skills, and practice of developmentally appropriate health care in the context of family ... family Ⅲ Train staff to elicit information and provide follow-up with family Clarify health care professional’s goals for visit Ⅲ Review screening forms and other basic health data Ⅲ Observe parent-child ... the context of their child’s health and support their child’s and family’s development Because of the overwhelming importance to overall health and well-being of mental health and healthy weight,...
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RESPIRATORY HEALTH EFFECTS OF PASSIVE SMOKING: LUNG CANCER AND OTHER DISORDERS ppt

RESPIRATORY HEALTH EFFECTS OF PASSIVE SMOKING: LUNG CANCER AND OTHER DISORDERS ppt

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 01:20
... 4-3 xiv FOREWORD xv 1/19/93 PREFACE This assessment of the respiratory health effects associated with passive smoking has been prepared by the Human Health Assessment Group, Office of Health 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 ... Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego Medical Center, 225 Dickenson Street, San Diego, CA 92103-1990 Dr Delbert Eatough, Professor of Chemistry,...
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Identification of Research Needs Relating to Potential Biological or Adverse Health Effects of Wireless Communication pptx

Identification of Research Needs Relating to Potential Biological or Adverse Health Effects of Wireless Communication pptx

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 15:20
... further development of models of several heights for men, women, and children of various ages for use in the characterization of SAR distributions for exposures characteristic of cell phones, wireless ... characterization of SARs for children of various age groups is, therefore, needed Furthermore, models are not presently adequate for men and women of various heights and for children of various ages ... further development of models of several heights for men, women, and children of various ages for use in the characterization of SAR distributions for exposures characteristic of cell phones, wireless...
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Health Effects of Fine Particulate Air Pollution: Lines that Connect pptx

Health Effects of Fine Particulate Air Pollution: Lines that Connect pptx

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 20:20
... that the effects of combustion emissions are the effects solely of the PM component Some of the same effects of traffic cited as evidence for PM causality have also been cited as evidence for the ... 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 ... studies of the relative effects of PM and non-PM components of combustion emissions grows, it increasingly reveals evidence for the causality of the non-PM fraction Parsing the effects of components...
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Health Effects of Fine Particulate Air Pollution: Lines that Connect doc

Health Effects of Fine Particulate Air Pollution: Lines that Connect doc

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 00:20
... Epidemiology of the Unusual Smog Episode of October 1948 Public Health Service: Washington, DC, 1949 U.K Ministry of Health The Report of the Chief Medical Of cer on the State of Public Health Her ... 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 ... Analysis of Various Models of ShortTerm 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 Effects...
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THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION ON CHILDREN pot

THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION ON CHILDREN pot

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 02:20
... the Health Effects of Carbon Monoxide? Air Quality Standards for Carbon Monoxide Sources of Carbon Monoxide Health Effects of Carbon Monoxide Prenatal Effects of ... to Reduce the Effects of Air Pollution on Children's Health? 15 The Health Effects of Air Pollution on Children Fall 2000 Introduction Air pollution has many effects on the health of both adults ... all 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...
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The Health Effects of Air Pollution: Separating Science and Propaganda pptx

The Health Effects of Air Pollution: Separating Science and Propaganda pptx

Ngày tải lên : 29/03/2014, 18:20
... most-recent years before the study was released early in 2002) For California, the graph shows the average number of ozone exceedance days per year for the each of the three groups of communities ... ambient levels This lack of demonstration is not for lack of trying: hundreds of researchers, in the US and elsewhere, have for years been experimenting with various forms of pollution-derived PM, ... 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...
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báo cáo sinh học:" Human resources for health challenges of public health system reform in Georgia" docx

báo cáo sinh học:" Human resources for health challenges of public health system reform in Georgia" docx

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 17:20
... Government of Georgia has to make further efforts to tackle the health workforce problems for public health 10 Conclusion After ten years of health system reforms in Georgia, the current public health ... establishment of the school of public health under the auspices of Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Human Resources for Health 2008, 6:8 http://www.human-resources -health. com/content/6/1/8 ... public health: a review of eight countries World Health Organization (on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies) 2004 Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health, ...
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Environmental Toxicology : Biological and Health Effects of Pollutants - Chapter 2 pptx

Environmental Toxicology : Biological and Health Effects of Pollutants - Chapter 2 pptx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 13:22
... different types of particulates, lead and other heavy metals, and various kinds of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) The major source of air pollution is the combustion of fossil fuels for electricity ... 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, which has raised the ambient ... in Seoul, South Korea, where a number of scientists have investigated the impact of air pollution on human health For example, Ha et al.11 studied the effect of air pollution on mortality among...
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Environmental Toxicology : Biological and Health Effects of Pollutants - Chapter 3 ppsx

Environmental Toxicology : Biological and Health Effects of Pollutants - Chapter 3 ppsx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 13:22
... the time of exposure Furthermore, symptoms may not be manifested immediately following exposure With cancer, it often takes 15 years or more for symptoms to appear For example, many of New York’s ... slow to degrade and persist in the environment for years Accumulation of various types of pesticides in human tissues can therefore occur and result in health problems It is clear that an enormous ... depending on the types of toxicants, their concentrations, and species of exposed organisms 3.7.2 ACUTE EFFECTS A number of acute pollution episodes have occurred in different parts of the world since...
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Environmental Toxicology : Biological and Health Effects of Pollutants - Chapter 4 pptx

Environmental Toxicology : Biological and Health Effects of Pollutants - Chapter 4 pptx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 13:22
... functioning of hemoglobin by COHb accumulation is detrimental to health and can lead to death A number of toxicants or their metabolites are capable of binding to DNA to form DNA adducts Formation of ... acute injury occurs following absorption of sufficient amounts of toxic gas or other forms of toxicants to cause destruction of tissues The destruction is often manifested by collapsed leaf margins ... shows the initiation of a chain reaction that can occur following the formation of new species of free radical As a result of peroxidation and subsequent reactions, the nature of lipid material...
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Environmental Toxicology : Biological and Health Effects of Pollutants - Chapter 7 docx

Environmental Toxicology : Biological and Health Effects of Pollutants - Chapter 7 docx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 13:22
... cells of the skin, the cells lining the gastrointestinal tract or those of the alveoli in the lung The passage of a compound across one of these membranes is therefore an FIGURE 7.4 Arrangement of ... consists of one third of the amino acid residues), and are therefore capable of binding metals such as Zn and Cd Various physiologic and toxicologic stimuli can induce MT genes The formation of MTs ... 7.5 The structure of the human kidney nutrients and their metabolites, as well as upon transport of toxins, so reducing the potential for cell injury The urine-forming unit of the kidney is called...
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Environmental Toxicology : Biological and Health Effects of Pollutants - Chapter 8 pot

Environmental Toxicology : Biological and Health Effects of Pollutants - Chapter 8 pot

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 13:22
... favored when such an elevation of pollutants occurred for several consecutive days 8.3 8.3.1 NITROGEN DIOXIDE FORMS AND FORMATION OF NITROGEN OXIDES Six forms of nitrogen (N) oxides occur in ... tidal volumes, and slowing of mucus clearance in humans.15 The effect of SO2 on human health varies markedly with the health status and physical activity of individuals For example, in asthmatics ... inhibition of lipid biosynthesis, oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids in vivo, and stimulation of peroxidase activity 8.3.4 HEALTH EFFECTS Studies on the pathological and physiological effects of NO2...
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