... Environmentand Health: media awards One of the key stakeholders in theenvironmentandhealth debate is the mass media The World Health Youth (WHY) Communication Network on EnvironmentandHealth ... UNECE andthe WHO Regional Office for Europe: the Transport, HealthandEnvironment Pan-European Programme (THE PEP) (8), andthe Protocol on Water andHealth to the 1992 Convention on the Protection ... ECDC, theHealthandEnvironment Alliance andthe Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe The Framework aims to protect health, promote health equity and security, and provide...
... simulation’ and ‘4D-CAD’ Use of the term ‘virtual reality’ can direct attention to either the VR medium or the VR system When the term is used to refer to the VR medium there is a focus on the virtual environment ... Reality andtheBuiltEnvironment (Ijsselsteijn et al., 2000) The immersion and presence that they provide may be important for some builtenvironment applications Some people argue that they are ... displays, and more portable and flexible roll-up screen technologies Though builtenvironment applications have not been major drivers for the development of these 18 Virtual Reality andtheBuilt Environment...
... change andhealth N ovel approaches to environmentandhealth risk assessment Other FP7 themes – in particular Healthand “Food, Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology” – will complement environment ... – Revealing the link between air pollution andhealth Among theenvironmentandhealth projects funded by FP5, the 20 projects listed here are related directly 14 EnvironmentandHealth , EEA ... technologies TheEnvironmentandHealth activity within theEnvironment (including Climate Change) theme of the Cooperation Programme in FP722 includes specific reference to health effects of EMF and other...
... environmentandhealth risks: climate change 34 Emerging environmentandhealth risks: waterborne stressors 38 Emerging environmentandhealth risks: nanoparticles 40 TheEnvironment ... measures and their costs for PCBs, dioxins and indoor air pollution, review of existing information for ozone and heavy metals, andthe evaluation of thehealthand non -health benefits of these ... greatly expanded our understanding of the complex linkages between environmental risk factors and their effects on thehealth of individuals and populations This knowledge has been central to the development...
... design features that together generate the need and provide the opportunity for travel (TRB 2005) 22 Driving andtheBuiltEnvironmentand separate land uses In tune with their recommendations, ... that the interpretations and conclusions drawn in the papers are those of the authors The key findings endorsed by the committee appear in the body of the report The briefings received at the ... although the committee disagreed about whether the changes in development patterns and public policies necessary to achieve the high end of these findings are plausible 8 Driving andtheBuilt Environment...
... and economic equity 12 The Impact of theBuiltEnvironment on Community Health: The State of Current Practice and Next Steps for a Growing Movement Thebuiltenvironment can either compound these ... environmentandhealth at the national level The model prioritized the places where people live, work, learn, and play” to protect and promote healthand safety and prioritized the ideas of healthy ... Health: The State of the Art 31 California Local Public Health Leadership Perspectives on theBuiltEnvironmentHealth officers and executives and environmental health officers from all local Health...
... from the Tuscany Region, Italy andthe National Health Service (NHS) Scotland; “Gender inequalities in environmentandhealth , Madrid, Spain, 11–12 November 2009, organized and funded by the ... identified Next to the processes causing the unequal distribution of environmental risks and outcomes, the framework model identifies the institutional landscape andthe respective services and actions ... Race, class, and environmental health: a review and systematization of the literature Environmental Research, 69:15–30 Brulle RJ, Pellow DN (2006) Environmental justice: human healthand environmental...
... about those woodlands, and those trees in our parks, on our streets, and on the edges of our towns and cities They are the heritage woodlands for the people that live there Where was the debate around ... locust in the Bronx (13%) and Manhattan (23%), Callery pear in Staten Island 12 Trees, people andthebuiltenvironmentThe tree census also identified other borough trends in tree healthand infrastructure ... environmental, economic and social benefits, contributing enormously to thehealthand welfare of everyone who lives and works in the urban environment As concerns grow about the quality of the...
... Design refers to the aesthetic, physical, and functional qualities of thebuilt environment, such as the design of buildings and streetscapes, and relates to both land use patterns andthe transportation ... Design refers to the aesthetic, physical, and functional qualities of thebuilt environment, such as the design of buildings and streetscapes, and relates to both land use patterns andthe transportation ... Foundation andthe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requested the present study to examine the connection between thebuiltenvironmentandthe physical activity levels of the U.S population...
... Conference on EnvironmentandHealth in June 1999 This book brings together the scientific evidence on the main effects of transport on human healthandtheenvironment It sets the conceptual ... especially in urban and suburban areas, and their effects monitored and evaluated 33 TRANSPORT, ENVIRONMENTANDHEALTH Groups at higher risk of the damaging health effects of transport Thehealth effects ... cover the state’s costs in the event of their having an accident would raise the cost of motoring, particularly to those who are a danger to themselves and others Safe driving andthe use (and therefore...
... Design refers to the aesthetic, physical, and functional qualities of thebuilt environment, such as the design of buildings and streetscapes, and relates to both land use patterns andthe transportation ... Design refers to the aesthetic, physical, and functional qualities of thebuilt environment, such as the design of buildings and streetscapes, and relates to both land use patterns andthe transportation ... Foundation andthe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requested the present study to examine the connection between thebuiltenvironmentandthe physical activity levels of the U.S population...
... ERA-ENVHEALTH, environmentand health, environmentandhealth research programme, ENVHEALTH, environmentandhealth research project, environmentandhealth research funding, database 15 The ERA-ENVHEALTH ... projects and scientific activities; to monitor the state of theenvironment and/ or the state of public health and/ or the interaction of health determinants in environmentand public health ; ... “Mostly environment , two for "Environment AND health" : NIOM/Poland whose activities cover “various areas of occupational and environmental healthand environmental protection” and EHF/Israel - Environment...
... related to thebuiltenvironment no one scale can be recommended Ideally the selection of the spatial scale will be informed by the theoretical understanding of the processes that link the neighbourhood ... of this study and wrote the first draft of this paper JRP and AMK contributed to the study design andthe redrafting of the paper All authors read and approved the final version of the final paper ... that they are often not designed for the analytical purposes for which they are being used and therefore may not entirely meet the needs of the researcher Therefore, in order to ensure their...
... Amsterdam, The Netherlands 4Division Work and Employment, TNO, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands 5Body@Work, Research Center Physical Activity, Work and Health, TNO-VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The ... Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2Department of Health Sciences, Section Methodology and Applied Biostatistics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, ... USA) During the entire run, the expired air was analysed on O2 and CO2 by the Ergoanalyzer (Jaeger, the Netherlands), and subsequently expressed in VO max (ml·min·kg -2/3 ) relative to the individuals’...
... buildings and condominiums with damp problems could have their health affected by microbial contamination.35–37) On the other hand, physiological and psychological effects of low humidity and low ... on the indoor environment was studied to identify the influence on the psycho-physiologic condition of the occupants.40) Temperature The relationship between buildings-related symptoms and thermal ... thehealth of residents The regulation of chemical emission from furniture andthe education of residents are required COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS AND REGIONAL HEALTH CENTERS The...
... funded research and development center sponsored by OSD, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Department of the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, andthe defense Intelligence ... Pot, the Vietnamese quickly wore out their welcome With the support of Thailand (and others further abroad), the Khmer Rouge reconstituted itself as a significant insurgency, and several other ... factors minus the bad factors, andthe outcome of the case.5 The good and bad factors summed are the same as those listed in Table S.1 So, for instance, the very first row presents the post-Soviet...
... brain start in these accessory systems of the neuronal microenvironment and affect neurons only second hand Therefore, understanding the elements of the neuronal environmentandthe interactions ... neurons, and with each other, is crucial in understanding the development and impact of most brain diseases All the authors contributing to The Neuronal Environment: Brain Homeostasis in Healthand ... one hand, andthe potential benefits from a future protective modality, on the other, continue to stimulate the research in this field The complete dependency of the CNS on glucose and O2 for the...
... U.S.-Turkish discord On the one hand, the Turks felt they had not been sufficiently compensated for either the support they had given the United States or the economic losses they had incurred as ... century Their partnership was forged in the early days of the Cold War and shaped by the Soviet threat Stalins territorial demands after World War IIincluding demands for a base on the Straits and ... the Soviet Union andthe end of the Cold War, (2) the 1990 1991 Gulf War, and (3) the 2003 U.S invasion of Iraq These three factors have had a profound effect on Turkish security perceptionsand...
... volume fracturing of some tight gas and conventional reservoirs in the southern part of the North Sea and in onshore Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark andthe UK Preliminary indications are that ... gas and conventional reservoirs in the southern part of the North Sea and in Ref: AEA/ED57281/Issue Number 17 Support to the identification of potential risks for theenvironmentand human health ... characterise these effects The study identified a number of issues as presenting a high risk for people andtheenvironment These issues and their significance are summarised in the following...
... in the classroom and within a Web-based environmentThe issues of health status andhealth behaviour are continuing themes throughout the subject with specific health topics related to these themes ... learning activity The student also has the opportunity to view their responses andthe responses of the other members in their group to the initial, topical questions by accessing the ‘Individual ... Web-based and classroom learning environments; the design and development of a prototype Web environment to facilitate these learning activities; and, the formative evaluation of learning activities and...