Climate change and global health
"There is increasing understanding, globally, that climate change will have profound and mostly harmful effects on human health. This authoritative book brings together international experts to describe both direct (such as heat waves) and indirect (such as vector-borne disease …
Health emergency preparedness and response
This book aims to provide a series of informative descriptions of key elements of health emergency preparedness and response that are underpinned by real-life examples. The book is divided into 17 chapters, as follows: introduction on the need to prepare for health emergencies; …
Organophosphorus (OP) insecticides have been the most commonly used insecticides in the world for the past 30 years, with chlorpyrifos being the most studied and most commonly used OP. However, the past decade has seen a decline in the use of OPs, due to the increasing risk of a…
The wide scale use of ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) in the world consumer market has resulted in likelihood of exposure to human beings. The present study was aimed to assess the in vitro and in vivo interactions of ZnO NPs in the mammalian system and to elucidate the possible mechani…
Assessing children’s language is fundamental for changing their developmental outcome as it gives a chance for a quick and early intervention with a suitable planning and monitoring program. Since there is no universal Arabic language screening tool that can be used for the asse…
The aim of this thesis is to enhance the knowledge on exposure to size fractions of airborne particulate matter and their components and to find more intensive information on sources of indoor and outdoor size fractionated particles. In the first part of the study, the physical …
Perhaps the whole of human history could be summed up with one word: economy. The law of the home and the home of all law. Without fail, this situation results in a structured devotion that must decide what to do with desire. And the economic decision often follows a violent tra…
Principles and methods for assessing autoimmunity associated with exposure to chemicals
by International Program on Chemical Safety, Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals, World Health Organization., Collaborating Centre for Immunotoxicology and Allergic Hypersensitivity, International Labour Organisation, World Health Organization
fromEnvironmental health criteria
Ocurrence in groundwater and use of pesticides. Environmental distribution and fate and exposure prediction. Pesticides and human health. Possible solutions. legislation and economy.
Manufactured nanoparticles (NPs) are usually defi ned as materials purposefully produced by human activity and which have at least one dimension between 1 and 100 nm. It is important to distinguish NPs by source; the main other NPs are incidental: that is produced indirectly by…
"This volume focuses on natural and anthropogenic environmental contaminants and their implications for human health and the environment." --Cover.