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Page : 84 pages
File Size : 20,65 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Hazardous substances
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The fact sheet series presents summaries and answers questions about hazardous substances and their health effects.
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Page : 584 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Lead
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Page : 366 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Toluene
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Author : Arthur L. Frank
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Environmental monitoring
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Author : Richard C. Hula
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317070623
The environmental legacy of past industrial and agricultural development can simultaneously pose serious threats to human health and impede reuse of contaminated land. The urban landscape around the world is littered with sites contaminated with a variety of toxins produced by past use. Both public and private sector actors are often reluctant to make significant investments in properties that simultaneously pose significant potential human health issues, and may demand complex and very expensive cleanups. The chapters in this volume recognize that land and water contamination are now almost universally acknowledged to be key social, economic, and political issues. How multiple societies have attempted to craft and implement public policy to deal with these issues provides the central focus of the book. The volume is unique in that it provides a global comparative perspective on brownfield policy and examples of its use in a variety of countries.
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Page : 176 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Styrene
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,96 MB
Release : 2009-09-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309136997
In the early 1980s, two water-supply systems on the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina were found to be contaminated with the industrial solvents trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE). The water systems were supplied by the Tarawa Terrace and Hadnot Point watertreatment plants, which served enlisted-family housing, barracks for unmarried service personnel, base administrative offices, schools, and recreational areas. The Hadnot Point water system also served the base hospital and an industrial area and supplied water to housing on the Holcomb Boulevard water system (full-time until 1972 and periodically thereafter). This book examines what is known about the contamination of the water supplies at Camp Lejeune and whether the contamination can be linked to any adverse health outcomes in former residents and workers at the base.
Author : Obaid Faroon
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 2010-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1437930670
DDT is a pesticide that was once widely used to control insects. Both DDD and DDE are breakdown products of DDT. This profile includes: (1) The examination, summary, and interpretation of available toxicologic info. and epidemiologic evaluations on DDT/DDD/DDE to ascertain the levels of significant human exposure for the substance and the associated chronic health effects; (2) A determination of whether adequate info. on the health effects of DDT/DDD/DDE is available to determine levels of exposure that present a significant risk to human health of chronic health effects; and (3) Identification of toxicologic testing needed to identify the types or levels of exposure that may present significant risk of adverse health effects in humans. Illus.
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Page : 176 pages
File Size : 25,86 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Sulfur dioxide
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Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309091942
Poisoning is a far more serious health problem in the U.S. than has generally been recognized. It is estimated that more than 4 million poisoning episodes occur annually, with approximately 300,000 cases leading to hospitalization. The field of poison prevention provides some of the most celebrated examples of successful public health interventions, yet surprisingly the current poison control "system" is little more than a loose network of poison control centers, poorly integrated into the larger spheres of public health. To increase their effectiveness, efforts to reduce poisoning need to be linked to a national agenda for public health promotion and injury prevention. Forging a Poison Prevention and Control System recommends a future poison control system with a strong public health infrastructure, a national system of regional poison control centers, federal funding to support core poison control activities, and a national poison information system to track major poisoning epidemics and possible acts of bioterrorism. This framework provides a complete "system" that could offer the best poison prevention and patient care services to meet the needs of the nation in the 21st century.
