Sentences with phrase «health and environmental perspective»

From a human health and environmental perspective, it is therefore important to reduce the indoor and outdoor levels of these volatile organic compounds.

Many are conscious of what they eat - both from a health and environmental perspective.

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A recent study in Sweden titled «The relation between office type and workplace conflict: A gender and noise perspective» and published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, looked at the data of 5,229 employees who participated in the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health.

the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as the overarching framework that guides our actions towards sustainable development from a social, environmental, economic and health perspective;

Emily Barrett of Environmental Health Perspectives recently provided a great synopsis of an updated review of food contact materials and their potential to leach endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC's) into our food.

One study in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found that plastic products advertised as BPA - free still leached chemicals with estrogenic activity — and some of these chemicals were even more potent than BPA.

The study is posted on the Environmental Health Perspectives site, and is available for free in full in pdf format.

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Radha Muthiah will provide the perspective of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a nongovernmental organization that addresses both public health and environmental impact in its mission.

Up to now, the federal government has failed to support the research needed to prepare for the health consequences of hotter weather, according to a March 2009 report in Environmental Health Perspectives, by Balbus and colleagues around the United Shealth consequences of hotter weather, according to a March 2009 report in Environmental Health Perspectives, by Balbus and colleagues around the United SHealth Perspectives, by Balbus and colleagues around the United States.

Of the 2,199 children between the ages of 6 and 15 included in the new study, 12.6 percent had a learning disability and 10.5 percent were enrolled in special education classes, according to the study, published online in Environmental Health Perspectives last month.

The same researchers also reported a link between another long - banned pollutant, hexachlorobenzene (HCB), and implantation failure, in a paper published online in Environmental Health Perspectives in August.

To put that into perspective, the World Health Organization (WHO) puts the threshold for safe air at 25 micrograms per cubic meter, and India's Central Pollution Control Board limits exposure to 60 micrograms per cubic meter, said Cusworth, a member of the Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group led by Daniel J. Jacob, the Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, and Loretta J. Mickley, Senior Research Fellow at SEAS.

Danish researchers, with colleagues in the United States and Taiwan, published a study last year in Environmental Health Perspectives looking at people with and without Parkinson's and their exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a marker for traffic - polluted air.

«To our knowledge, this is the first documentation of an outbreak of childhood lead poisoning associated with artisanal gold mining,» the team, directed by lead experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wrote in the online edition of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

Children's concentrations were more than 50 percent higher than the amounts found in adolescents and adults, according to the study by Barr and colleagues published online in Environmental Health Perspectives on Feb. 3.

The most dramatic effects were a nearly 2 mmHg rise in diastolic (the low number) blood pressure when the odor was rated an 8 compared with no odor, and a nearly 3 mmHg rise in systolic (the high number) blood pressure when hydrogen sulfide concentrations reached 10 parts per billion compared with no detectable level, the researchers reported last week in Environmental Health Perspectives.

When the kids ate only organic fruits, veggies, juice, pasta, cereal and salsa, the levels of several organophosphate pesticides in their bodies plummeted (as measured by urine analysis), scientists reported in 2006 in Environmental Health Perspectives.

The issue revolves around high levels of lead in drinking water and a 2007 paper in Environmental Health Perspectives that claimed «no identifiable public health impact» had resHealth Perspectives that claimed «no identifiable public health impact» had reshealth impact» had resulted.

Exposure to high levels of pollution can have a significant impact on fetal growth and development, that is the conclusion of research appearing in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

Researchers have pinpointed the cellular pathway that allows the herbicide atrazine to mimic estrogen and fire up cancer cells, according to a study published January 16 in Environmental Health Perspectives.

However, in a paper due to come out in the February Environmental Health Perspectives, Calafat and colleagues from several other institutions looked at how BPA excretion varied over a 2 - year span among 82 individuals — men and women — seen at a fertility clinic in Boston.

As reported last July in Environmental Health Perspectives, 20 participants swapped their normal diet, which included canned and packaged foods, for a «fresh foods» diet, which did not.

Exposure to air pollution early in a pregnancy could increase risk for preterm birth and low birth weight, according to a study led by researchers at NYU School of Medicine, and published on July 27 in Environmental Health Perspectives.

«This mobilization effect to meet the fetal demand may trigger the release of POPs to the bloodstream, where they may become available and cross the placenta barrier,» they said in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

A study published on Feb. 6 in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found that many prescription and over-the-counter drugs and supplements may use phthalates as in active ingredients, but DEHP was not among them.

«Normal maternal thyroid hormone levels are essential for normal fetal growth and brain development, so our findings could have significant public health implications,» said Jonathan Chevrier, a University of California, Berkeley epidemiologist and lead author of the study, which was published in the journal Environmental Health Perspechealth implications,» said Jonathan Chevrier, a University of California, Berkeley epidemiologist and lead author of the study, which was published in the journal Environmental Health PerspecHealth Perspectives.

An expanded set of experiments suggested that protein content in rice and wheat could sink by roughly 8 percent, Myers and colleagues wrote in the August Environmental Health Perspectives.

Perspectives: Big Need for a Little Testing (p 28) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is dragging its feet in studying the health and environmental risks of nanomaterials, which promotes an atmosphere of uncertainty endangering people's health and impedinEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA) is dragging its feet in studying the health and environmental risks of nanomaterials, which promotes an atmosphere of uncertainty endangering people's health and impedinenvironmental risks of nanomaterials, which promotes an atmosphere of uncertainty endangering people's health and impeding innovation.

A study published last year in Environmental Health Perspectives found that children in Guiyu had lead levels 50 percent higher than those in surrounding villages and 50 percent higher than safety limits set by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

«Our findings suggest that DDT may be targeting the system in the body that keeps blood pressure under control,» said Michele La Merrill, a toxicologist at the University of California, Davis and lead author of the study published today in Environmental Health Perspectives.

«This vulnerability concept requires the determination of the major threats to local and regional water, food, energy, human health, and ecosystem function resources from extreme events including climate, but also from other social and environmental issues,» he said in a book chapter he co-authored in «Extreme Events and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective» earlier this year.

• Community - based participatory research principles should be embraced in designing and conducting studies on environmental and health impacts of UNGDO so that a range of community perspectives are addressed.

Communities of color and those with low education and high poverty and unemployment face greater health risks even if their air quality meets federal health standards, according to the article published online in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspechealth risks even if their air quality meets federal health standards, according to the article published online in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspechealth standards, according to the article published online in the scientific journal Environmental Health PerspecHealth Perspectives.

Clapp was an associate editor of Environmental Health Perspectives from 2006 to 2010 and on the editorial board of New Solutions from 1994 to 2010.

Biomarker Monitoring of a Population Residing Near Uranium Mining Activities, W. W. Au, R. G. Lane, M. S. Legator, E. B. Whorton, G. S. Wilkinson, and G. J. Gabehart; reprinted from Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol.

LaVeist was recognized for his ability to examine health disparities from a broad perspective; the innovative design of his study, «Exploring Health Disparities in Integrated Communities», which controls for confounding socioeconomic and environmental factors; and his work creating the Cultural Competency Organizational Assessment — 360, a tool for assessing the cultural competency of health care organizahealth disparities from a broad perspective; the innovative design of his study, «Exploring Health Disparities in Integrated Communities», which controls for confounding socioeconomic and environmental factors; and his work creating the Cultural Competency Organizational Assessment — 360, a tool for assessing the cultural competency of health care organizaHealth Disparities in Integrated Communities», which controls for confounding socioeconomic and environmental factors; and his work creating the Cultural Competency Organizational Assessment — 360, a tool for assessing the cultural competency of health care organizahealth care organizations.

The study, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, showed that these drugs could affect the fertility of both unborn boys and girls.

The findings, which are presented in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, particularly apply to women who are premenopausal and who are current or past smokers.

Another powerful study published in 2003 Environmental Health Perspectives evaluated the levels of pesticide metabolites in the urine of two groups of children and found that children eating organic fruits and vegetables, consuming organic milk and drinking organic juices had levels of pesticide metabolites six to nine times lower than children eating conventionally grown food.17 Bear in mind, pesticides are up to ten times more toxic to children than adults, due to their smaller body size and developing organ systems, so it is especially important to minimize their exposure whenever possible during the growing years.18

Interestingly, Dr. Stuart Yaniger, one of the authors of the Environmental Health Perspectives study, responded both to Chris Kresser's post and to a post at another website (which argued for the safety of polyethylene bags or silicone bags for sous vide).7 Dr. Yaniger's response (see comment in reference 7) was instructive:

Researchers behind the study, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, found that preterm births associated with particulate matter — a type of pollutant — led to more than $ 4 billion in economic costs in 2010 due to medical care and lost productivity that results from disability.

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A 2013 article in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives shows a strong (though not totally definitive) link between exposure to phthalates (chemicals that are found in air fresheners, candles and sometimes plastics) during pregnancy and the child's future risk of asthma.

Industry leaders representing a diverse cross-section of expertise and perspectives will gather at the Institute to forge solutions to today's most pressing environmental issues — from climate change and the health of the oceans to water conservation, waste management and wildlife preservation.

New research, published this month in Environmental Health Perspectives, shows that persistent organic pollutants (POPs), including the insecticide DDT, travel in air and water currents around the world's -LSB-...]

The paper, Environmental Chemicals in Pregnant Women in the U.S., was just published in Environmental Health Perspectives and posted online.

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And anybody in the environmental world would want to do so, because delivering reliable energy is extraordinarily important from a public health perspective.

and «PVC (polyvinyl chloride or vinyl) is the worst plastic from an environmental health perspective, posing unique and major hazards in its manufacture, product life and disposal.»