Browsing by Subject "Environmental Health"
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Crumbling Infrastructure and Learning Impairment: A Call for Responsibility.
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Developmental Neurotoxicity of Silver and Silver Nanoparticles Modeled In Vitro and In Vivo
(2010)Background: Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) act as antimicrobials by releasing monovalent silver (Ag+) and are increasingly used in consumer products, thus elevating exposures in human and environmental populations. Materials ... -
Ecosystem change and human health: implementation economics and policy.
(Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2017-06)Several recent initiatives such as Planetary Health, EcoHealth and One Health claim that human health depends on flourishing natural ecosystems. However, little has been said about the operational and implementation challenges ... -
Environmental management for malaria control: knowledge and practices in Mvomero, Tanzania.
(Ecohealth, 2010-12)Environmental conditions play an important role in the transmission of malaria; therefore, regulating these conditions can help to reduce disease burden. Environmental management practices for disease control can be implemented ... -
Evaluating the Benefits of a Water Quality Intervention in Rural India: A Longitudinal Study
(2010-05-06)Child diarrhea is one of the primary causes of infant death in the world. It affects poor populations in developing countries who do not have access to clean water or sanitation. Due to the limited resources that can be ... -
Social and physical environments and disparities in risk for cardiovascular disease: the healthy environments partnership conceptual model.
(Environ Health Perspect, 2005-12)The Healthy Environments Partnership (HEP) is a community-based participatory research effort investigating variations in cardiovascular disease risk, and the contributions of social and physical environments to those variations, ... -
SUPPORTING INDICATOR-BASED MANAGEMENT: USING A GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM TO ASSESS THE INFLUENCE OF LANDSCAPE CHARACTERISTICS ON STREAM TURBIDITY IN THE LONG ISLAND SOUND WATERSHED
(2007-05)Officials with the Long Island Sound Study (LISS) are presently reviewing the suite of indicators used to assess and report on Long Island Sound’s ecological health and the programmatic success of the LISS. As part of ... -
The Influence of Estrogen Signaling on Male Reproduction in Medaka (Oryzias latipes)
(2011)Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are ubiquitous and often act as xenoestrogens with the ability to disrupt estrogen signaling through differential binding to the various estrogen receptors. Exposure to these xenoestrogens ... -
The Political Economy of Climate Adaptation and Environmental Health: The Case of Ethiopia
(2016)The environment affects our health, livelihoods, and the social and political institutions within which we interact. Indeed, nearly a quarter of the global disease burden is attributed to environmental factors, and many ... -
Translational toxicology: a developmental focus for integrated research strategies.
(BMC pharmacology & toxicology, 2013-01)BACKGROUND: Given that toxicology studies the potential adverse effects of environmental exposures on various forms of life and that clinical toxicology typically focuses on human health effects, what can and should the ... -
Working for Change in the Environmental Health Sphere: Unique Challenges and the Best Practices to Address Those Challenges
(2012-04-27)Individuals working for change in environmental health face some challenges that best practices can help navigate. Environmental health is becoming a much more important area of focus as expanding knowledge increasingly ...
