Sentences with phrase «environmental health risks»
This confirms that air pollution is now the world's largest single environmental health risk.
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This video highlights air pollution as the world's largest environmental health risk.
For their study, Mello and Hornik first examined 2,543 news items about pediatric environmental health risks reported through parenting magazines, websites, and other news sources from September 2012 to February 2013.
After an intense week of editing a paper on the need for national academies and royal societies to undertake environmental health risk assessments for climate change AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS, especially to adopt the IPCC's best - case emissions scenario, RCP2.6 (because the IPCC does not and will not make recommendations), followed by a look at the fires burning in Siberia and the sea ice thinning in the Arctic, it struck me...
The World Health Organisation report, mentioned above and summarised in The Guardian, states that air pollution is the world's single biggest environmental health risk.
Air pollution is now the fourth leading cause of death worldwide, weighing in just below smoking, and the top environmental health risk.
-- Chec's HealtheHouse, the resource for Environmental Health Risks Affecting Your Children [Read more...]
In the course of her work, French epidemiologist Emilie Counil has worked with public officials and victims of asbestos exposure, trying to bring environmental health risks to public attention.
«Make the best choices you can, stay informed, then live your life,» says Jeanne Rizzo, RN, executive director of the Breast Cancer Fund, a nonprofit group that identifies environmental health risks, such as endocrine disruptors, and advocates for their eliimination.
The National Association of School Nurses wants to help alert officials and remedy problems associated with poor indoor air quality, noting that it is considered among the top public environmental health risks.
Curriculum will discuss how poor communities and communities of color have higher exposure to environmental health risk factors like pollution, and less access to the benefits provided by the environment such as clean air and open space.
The new study, «Media coverage of pediatric environmental health risks and its effects on mothers» protective behaviors,» appeared in the online version of Risk Analysis, a publication of the Society for Risk Analysis.
«We don't yet know what the implications of more PAH oxidation products over the tropics are for future human or environmental health risk assessments.
A World Health Organisation report (summarised in The Guardian) states that air pollution is the world's single biggest environmental health risk.
According to the World Health Organization, it is now considered «the world's largest single environmental health risk,» with more than three million people dying every year as a result.
He soon learned that air pollution is the world's single largest environmental health risk — and that in 2012, nearly 14 percent of deaths worldwide were attributed to household or ambient air pollution.
She sat down with Environmental Health News journalist Jane Kay in San Francisco on Wednesday to answer questions about the environmental health risks we face today.
Flooding and disaster - related equipment failures can lead to far greater exposure to environmental health risks.
The data set will help refine climate and atmospheric chemistry models and provide more insight into human and environmental health risks.