nature s numbers expanding the national economic accounts to include the environment
Tài liệu Nature’s Numbers Expanding the National Economic Accounts to Include the Environment doc
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13/02/2014, 23:20
... Assistant JOSHUA S DICK, Senior Project Assistant iii Copyright © National Academy of Sciences All rights reserved Nature' s Numbers: Expanding the National Economic Accounts to Include the Environment ... consuming stocks of valuable subsoil assets such as fossil fuels or water or cutting first-growth forests is just as much a drawdown on the national wealth as is consuming aboveground stocks of ... redwood forests increases GDP, yet no account is taken of the loss of this precious asset because the nation s forests have not been included in the asset accounts For similar reasons, when fishing...
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Nature’s Numbers Expanding the National Economic Accounts to Include the Environment potx
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23/03/2014, 12:20
... Assistant JOSHUA S DICK, Senior Project Assistant iii Copyright © National Academy of Sciences All rights reserved Nature' s Numbers: Expanding the National Economic Accounts to Include the Environment ... consuming stocks of valuable subsoil assets such as fossil fuels or water or cutting first-growth forests is just as much a drawdown on the national wealth as is consuming aboveground stocks of ... redwood forests increases GDP, yet no account is taken of the loss of this precious asset because the nation s forests have not been included in the asset accounts For similar reasons, when fishing...
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Nature''s templates - identifying the patterns that control events
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17/10/2013, 18:20
... individuals Shifting the burden structures tend to produce periodic crises, when the symptoms of stress surface The crises are usually resolved with more of the symptomatic solution, causing the symptoms ... processes: stress builds, which leads to more alcohol, which relieves stress, which leads to less perceived need to adjust workload, which leads to more workload, which leads to more stress These ... can possibly respond to Over time, the workload continues to build, the stress returns, and the pressure to drink increases What makes the shifting the burden structure insidious is the subtle...
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Tài liệu CHILDREN’S HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN EUROPE: A BASELINE ASSESSMENT doc
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12/02/2014, 12:20
... Member States EHIS outcomes Objectives of the CEHAPE indicator-based assessment and the questions it answers PART I ASSESSMENT OF THE SITUATION AND PROGRESS TOWARDS THE RPGS CHAPTER CLEAN WATER – ... on the scientific basis, framework and scope of the system, and presents plans for future action The use of the system is highlighted by presenting its main product: an indicator-based assessment ... Outbreak data suggest that there is a small risk of more serious illness caused by pathogens such as Shigella sonneri, E Coli O157, protozoan parasites, and enteric viruses (12) Estimates suggest that...
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Tài liệu Children''''s Health and the Environment Children''''s Health and the Environment doc
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18/02/2014, 15:20
... chemicals PESTICIDES Spraying of pesticides at home and in schools increases exposure to children due to: Higher concentrations near the floor Persistence in some surfaces, such as carpets and soft toys ... cleaners, pesticides and other products unsafely stored in the home and these may be toxic or caustic One of the main dangers to toddlers is the ingestion of caustic products that may cause permanent ... processes and pathways that a substance goes through in the body Toxicodynamics the interaction between a substance and the body, resulting in toxic effects Simply stated, toxicokinetics refers to...
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Children''s Health and the Environment: WHO Training Package for the Health Sector World Health Organization potx
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05/03/2014, 10:20
... global environmental change is its scale For the first time, humankind is exerting sufficient pressure on the earth s biophysical systems to cause changes in some environmental processes and conditions ... encephalitis In the USA, there has been increases in a number of vector-borne illnesses Lyme disease is one of these The case rate per thousand has increased almost 20 fold in 20 years While rarely ... increase the risks of death and serious illness The very old, the very young and the sick are particularly vulnerable to thermal stress Children are less able than adults to modify their local (usually...
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CHILDREN AND CANCER-Children''''s Health and the Environment pdf
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06/03/2014, 01:20
... OBJECTIVES To discuss childhood cancer To address the links between childhood environments and adult onset of cancer To present current knowledge of causation and environmental risk factors To discuss ... characteristics including the ability to activate and detoxify carcinogens, the presence of stem cells, and possibly others Usefulness for human risk estimation would be strengthened by the study of these ... was papillary thyroid cancer which is an aggressive disease At the time of diagnosis 40% of patients already had a spread of the disease to the parathyroid tissues and 5% had distant metastases,...
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MYCOTOXINS - Children''s Health and the Environment potx
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14/03/2014, 09:20
... Mycotoxins Mycotoxins LEARNING OBJECTIVES To understand that exposure to mycotoxins is associated with some diseases in children To describe routes of exposure to mycotoxins To consider some of the ... airways symptoms, some studies demonstrate the presence of general symptoms that include fatigue and headache and symptoms from the central nervous system At excessive exposures, an increased risk ... with the symptoms of exposure to the major classes of mycotoxins enables the clinician to ask pertinent questions about possible fungal exposures and to remove the infant or child from the source...
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Global Plan of Action for Children’s Health and the Environment (2010 - 2015) doc
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14/03/2014, 11:20
... organizations, centres of excellence, academia, professional bodies, educators and other sectors We commit to take CEH issues to the consideration of the higher authorities in our respective countries ... well as international fora and processes addressing environment issues (i.e mercury and hazardous wastes) and broader global challenges such as climate change and disaster risk reduction Domestic ... awareness of the cost of disease and disability from diseases linked to the environment among policy-makers Awareness on environmental intervention to prevent children s diseases Strategy Clinical...
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Children’s Health and the Environment in North America ppt
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22/03/2014, 09:20
... indicators can play in assessing the status of an issue, raising its profi le, and tracking the progress of the issue relative to set goals The Cooperative Agenda states that the objective of the ... select sources of indoor air pollutants and the associated respiratory illness and disease As illustrated in the MEME diagrams, some of the measures presented here address environmental sources of ... relationships may not be fully understood (e.g., pesticides) In these cases, it is advisable to refer to the link between environmental exposures and health outcomes by referring to these factors as...
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INDOOR AIR POLLUTION - Children''''s Health and the Environment potx
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23/03/2014, 00:20
... injuries Furthermore, exposure to tobacco smoke damages the respiratory epithelium and decreases the ability to combat the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), the leading cause of hospital admissions ... with the symptoms of exposure to the major classes of mycotoxins enables the clinician to ask pertinent questions about possible fungal exposures and to remove the infant or child from the source ... monoxide also causes sleepiness, nausea, vomiting, confusion and disorientation At very high levels it causes loss of consciousness and death Poisoning may have irreversible sequelae These notes are...
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America’s Children and the Environment, Third Edition ppt
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28/03/2014, 23:20
... given in the tables and graphs, the statistical trend analysis used the annual rates to improve the precision of the trend estimates and p-values The adjusted p-value includes adjustment terms for ... Between the years 1992 and 2006, increases in the incidence of germ cell tumors, soft tissue sarcomas, malignant melanomas, and hepatoblastomas were statistically significant, as was the decrease ... databases incorporated into the SEER*Stat software include census population data used to compute the incidence and mortality rates and to age-adjust the rates to the 2000 U .S Standard Population These...
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Children''''s Health and the Environment WHO Training Package for the Health Sector World Health Organization pdf
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30/03/2014, 03:20
... Mycotoxins Mycotoxins LEARNING OBJECTIVES To understand that exposure to mycotoxins is associated with some diseases in children To describe routes of exposure to mycotoxins To consider some of the ... airways symptoms, some studies demonstrate the presence of general symptoms that include fatigue and headache and symptoms from the central nervous system At excessive exposures, an increased risk ... with the symptoms of exposure to the major classes of mycotoxins enables the clinician to ask pertinent questions about possible fungal exposures and to remove the infant or child from the source...
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Children''''s Health and the Environment ppt
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28/06/2014, 23:20
... The photograph on the top shows Feer s Disease (another term for acrodynia) Notice the scaling of the skin between the fingers The photograph on the bottom of the slides also shows Feer s Disease ... amalgams Ritual and folk medicine use 15 Because of the complexity of mercury chemistry, it is often easier to discuss each species separately The following series of slides recaps sources by species ... METHODS: We enrolled 1047 children between the ages of and 10 years and administered standardized tests assessing 42 neuropsychological outcomes (We did not assess autism-spectrum disorders.) Exposure...
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Children''''s Health and the Environment docx
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29/06/2014, 02:20
... www.inchem.org/documents/pds/pdsother/class.pdf) believed to be obsolete or discontinued for use as pesticides
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Arizona’s Children and the Environment pot
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29/06/2014, 02:20
... some evidence suggests that exposure to ozone can increase a person s responsiveness to inhaled allergens Diesel Exhaust Exposure from School Buses Diesel exhaust is a complex mixture comprised ... fever is primarily a disease of the lungs Most cases (60%) have no symptoms or only very mild flu-like symptoms; however, Valley Fever can be a serious illness When symptoms are present, the most ... hydrocarbon pesticides classified as probable carcinogens still persist in the environment Studies suggest an association between parental exposure (occupational or otherwise) to pesticides and childhood...
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Tài liệu Calculation methodology for the national Footprint accounts, 2008 EditIon docx
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22/01/2014, 15:20
... and sea area available to provide the ecosystem services that humanity consumes The land uses captured in the Ecological Footprint are assumed to be mutually exclusive This paper describes the ... covered consistently by the UN statistical system The actual implementation of the National Footprint Accounts through database-supported templates is described in the Guidebook to the National ... bycatch, TE is the transfer efficiency of biomass between trophic levels, and TL is the trophic level of the fish species in question In the National Footprint Accounts, DR is assigned the global...
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Tài liệu GUIDELINES FOR PRODUCING CHILD HEALTH SUBACCOUNTS WITHIN THE NATIONAL HEALTH ACCOUNTS FRAMEWORK pdf
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12/02/2014, 11:20
... the assessment of health system performance assessment 16 Guide to Producing CH Subaccounts Classification scheme and tables 3.1 Dimensions of NHA and their codes These guidelines use the basic ... At the onset, the team should list the data that are available through the HIS system and assess how these data can be used for the child health subaccounts A way of doing this is to analyse the ... gradually as the country works towards strengthening their health information system These guidelines therefore encourage country teams to work on the subaccounts even if the level of detail suggested...
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WHAT''''S IT WORTH? THE ECONOMIC VALIE OF COLLEGE MAJORS potx
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17/03/2014, 06:20
... is used widely across industrial sectors, but in limited cases majors have a tight relationship with an industrial sector This is especially the case in the Health Services and Educational Services ... Social Work P l ocial Science S l The second section compares earnings and other outcomes across broad major groups For example, we detail the wages for Physical Sciences majors compared to ... Hispanics is $13,000 less than the median for Whites with the same major l Hispanics earn the least in Theology and Religious Vocation majors with median earnings of $30,000, which is less...
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