Children living in non-attainment counties in Georgia experience higher rates of asthma-related emergency room visits compared to children in attainment counties. The document analyzes asthma morbidity rates between 2004-2012 for children aged 0-17 in non-attainment versus attainment counties. It finds that while hospitalization rates were lower in non-attainment counties, emergency room visit rates were significantly higher. It recommends increasing air quality monitoring in rural areas and implementing public health interventions to raise awareness of asthma triggers in non-attainment counties.
Bearing the Burden - Health Implications of Environmental Pollutants in Our B...v2zq
Bearing the Burden - Health Implications of Environmental Pollutants in Our Bodies - Resources for Healthy Children www.scribd.com/doc/254613619 - For more information, Please see Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children www.scribd.com/doc/254613963 - Gardening with Volcanic Rock Dust www.scribd.com/doc/254613846 - Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech www.scribd.com/doc/254613765 - Free School Gardening Art Posters www.scribd.com/doc/254613694 - Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden www.scribd.com/doc/254609890 - Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success www.scribd.com/doc/254613619 - City Chickens for your Organic School Garden www.scribd.com/doc/254613553 - Huerto Ecológico, Tecnologías Sostenibles, Agricultura Organica www.scribd.com/doc/254613494 - Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide www.scribd.com/doc/254613410 - Free Organic Gardening Publications www.scribd.com/doc/254609890 ~
Bearing the Burden - Health Implications of Environmental Pollutants in Our B...v2zq
Bearing the Burden - Health Implications of Environmental Pollutants in Our Bodies - Resources for Healthy Children www.scribd.com/doc/254613619 - For more information, Please see Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children www.scribd.com/doc/254613963 - Gardening with Volcanic Rock Dust www.scribd.com/doc/254613846 - Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech www.scribd.com/doc/254613765 - Free School Gardening Art Posters www.scribd.com/doc/254613694 - Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden www.scribd.com/doc/254609890 - Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success www.scribd.com/doc/254613619 - City Chickens for your Organic School Garden www.scribd.com/doc/254613553 - Huerto Ecológico, Tecnologías Sostenibles, Agricultura Organica www.scribd.com/doc/254613494 - Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide www.scribd.com/doc/254613410 - Free Organic Gardening Publications www.scribd.com/doc/254609890 ~
Pengrajin Alat Musik Rebana Terbang Wonogiri menyediakan berbagai berbagai macam alat musik rebana dan marawis dengan kualitas terbaik dan harga terjangkau
Ponencia de Alejandro Pérez (INDRA) que participó en la Mesa: LA PERSPECTIVA EMPRESARIAL 2. Cómo llegar más lejos las alianzas estratégicas. Moderador: Fernando Tomás (IDOM).
Dentro de las I Jornadas Smart Cities Zaragoza celebradas el 4 de junio de 2013 en Zaragoza
WASH DOWN DUTY – SHARK™ – STAINLESS STEEL
TEFC - Three Phase - C-Face Foot Mount
For food processing, pharmaceutical and other applications
requiring extreme cleanliness and frequent washdowns.
* Class F epoxy insulation
* F1 Mounted
* Nameplate data laser etched on body of motor
Features that make a difference:
* All 304 stainless steel frame, endbells and terminal box
* Thermostats on each phase-auto reset
* Double lip seals
* 4 drain plugs in endbells
* Locked DE bearings
"La suerte pasa por la vida de todos, y cuando pasa por tu puerta te tiene que coger trabajando", Ginés Clemente, consejero delegado del Grupo Aciturri.
Debris driven by high winds presents a great risk to your home and the safety of your loved ones. Insulated concrete form walls have been proven to withstand flying debris from tornadoes and hurricanes with wind speeds up to 250 mph.
Environmental Pollutants and Disease in American: Children: Estimates of Morbidity, Mortality, and Costs for Lead Poisoning, Asthma, Cancer, and Developmental Disabilities
This is basically a protocol upon the basis of P.G Public Health presentation on behalf of the Health effects due to environmental pollution on population.
Pengrajin Alat Musik Rebana Terbang Wonogiri menyediakan berbagai berbagai macam alat musik rebana dan marawis dengan kualitas terbaik dan harga terjangkau
Ponencia de Alejandro Pérez (INDRA) que participó en la Mesa: LA PERSPECTIVA EMPRESARIAL 2. Cómo llegar más lejos las alianzas estratégicas. Moderador: Fernando Tomás (IDOM).
Dentro de las I Jornadas Smart Cities Zaragoza celebradas el 4 de junio de 2013 en Zaragoza
WASH DOWN DUTY – SHARK™ – STAINLESS STEEL
TEFC - Three Phase - C-Face Foot Mount
For food processing, pharmaceutical and other applications
requiring extreme cleanliness and frequent washdowns.
* Class F epoxy insulation
* F1 Mounted
* Nameplate data laser etched on body of motor
Features that make a difference:
* All 304 stainless steel frame, endbells and terminal box
* Thermostats on each phase-auto reset
* Double lip seals
* 4 drain plugs in endbells
* Locked DE bearings
"La suerte pasa por la vida de todos, y cuando pasa por tu puerta te tiene que coger trabajando", Ginés Clemente, consejero delegado del Grupo Aciturri.
Debris driven by high winds presents a great risk to your home and the safety of your loved ones. Insulated concrete form walls have been proven to withstand flying debris from tornadoes and hurricanes with wind speeds up to 250 mph.
Environmental Pollutants and Disease in American: Children: Estimates of Morbidity, Mortality, and Costs for Lead Poisoning, Asthma, Cancer, and Developmental Disabilities
This is basically a protocol upon the basis of P.G Public Health presentation on behalf of the Health effects due to environmental pollution on population.
2023 Undergraduate Research Symposium: Taral Patel and Sophie Habashy
Asthma negatively affects the quality of life of those who suffer from it, with the acknowledgment that the African American/Black community is disproportionately afflicted by the disease. Research suggests that increased atmospheric particulate matter among other pollutants is correlated with higher rates of reported asthma symptoms and hospitalizations.
The present study describes the methodology of cross-referencing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported daily particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) with participant laboratory visits with the goal of allowing researchers to assess the effect of this pollutant with concurrent reports of psychosocial and asthma measures. Part of this data comes from the Asthma in the Lives of Families Today study which investigated psychosocial predictors of asthma-related health among African American children from the Detroit area between 2011-2018. Determining PM2.5 levels on lab visit days was conducted in multiple steps. Firstly, participants' zip codes were used to determine their geographical census block (i.e., GEOID). Next, GEOIDs were matched to the most closely located EPA PM2.5 sites of the twelve stationed in Wayne County.
After the EPA site was matched to the participant, the PM2.5 measurement on the day of each participant's ALOFT visit was identified. This methodological approach provided a clear air pollution reference on the date of lab visits, allowing ALOFT researchers to investigate its specific and subsequent impact on child asthma health.
Children are known to be more vulnerable to the adverse health effects of air pollution due to their higher minute ventilation, immature immune system, involvement in vigorous activities, the longer periods of time they spend outdoors and the continuing development of their lungs during the early post neonatal period. A large number of epidemiological studies have reported an association between exposure to criteria air pollutants and several morbidity and mortality outcomes in children. Criteria air pollutants consist of six air pollutants that are regulated on the basis of their potential to cause adverse health and/or environmental effects: ozone (O3), particulate matter (PM), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulphur dioxide (SO2), carbon monoxide and lead. In the present commentary, we intend to highlight the adverse health outcomes associated with exposure to criteria air pollutants in children.
RESEARCH Open AccessExposures to fine particulate air poll.docxronak56
RESEARCH Open Access
Exposures to fine particulate air pollution and
respiratory outcomes in adults using two national
datasets: a cross-sectional study
Keeve E Nachman1* and Jennifer D Parker2
Abstract
Background: Relationships between chronic exposures to air pollution and respiratory health outcomes have yet
to be clearly articulated for adults. Recent data from nationally representative surveys suggest increasing disparity
by race/ethnicity regarding asthma-related morbidity and mortality. The objectives of this study are to evaluate the
relationship between annual average ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations and respiratory
outcomes for adults using modeled air pollution and health outcome data and to examine PM2.5 sensitivity across
race/ethnicity.
Methods: Respondents from the 2002-2005 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) were linked to annual kriged
PM2.5 data from the USEPA AirData system. Logistic regression was employed to investigate increases in ambient
PM2.5 concentrations and self-reported prevalence of respiratory outcomes including asthma, sinusitis and chronic
bronchitis. Models included health, behavioral, demographic and resource-related covariates. Stratified analyses
were conducted by race/ethnicity.
Results: Of nearly 110,000 adult respondents, approximately 8,000 and 4,000 reported current asthma and recent
attacks, respectively. Overall, odds ratios (OR) for current asthma (0.97 (95% Confidence Interval: 0.87-1.07)) and
recent attacks (0.90 (0.78-1.03)) did not suggest an association with a 10 μg/m3 increase in PM2.5. Stratified analyses
revealed significant associations for non-Hispanic blacks [OR = 1.73 (1.17-2.56) for current asthma and OR = 1.76
(1.07-2.91) for recent attacks] but not for Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites. Significant associations were observed
overall (1.18 (1.08-1.30)) and in non-Hispanic whites (1.31 (1.18-1.46)) for sinusitis, but not for chronic bronchitis.
Conclusions: Non-Hispanic blacks may be at increased sensitivity of asthma outcomes from PM2.5 exposure.
Increased chronic PM2.5 exposures in adults may contribute to population sinusitis burdens.
Keywords: Particulate matter, Asthma, Sinusitis, Air pollution, National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
Background
Relationships between exposure to particulate air pollu-
tion and a variety of adverse effects, including cardiovas-
cular and respiratory diseases, birth outcomes, genetic
polymorphisms, as well as mortality and life expectancy
have been studied [1-8]. A number of studies have
investigated the influence of exposure to particulate
matter on development of respiratory outcomes, though
the majority focus on children [9-13]; a limited number
of published reports exist documenting of the effects of
chronic exposures on non-cancer respiratory outcomes
in adults [14-17].
National prevalence data for several respiratory condi-
tions are available from the National Center for Health
Statistics (NCHS) of the Ce ...
Identifying and Prioritizing Chemicals with Uncertain Burden oMalikPinckney86
Identifying and Prioritizing Chemicals with Uncertain Burden of Exposure:
Opportunities for Biomonitoring and Health-Related Research
Edo D. Pellizzari,1 Tracey J. Woodruff,2 Rebecca R. Boyles,3 Kurunthachalam Kannan,4 Paloma I. Beamer,5 Jessie P. Buckley,6
Aolin Wang,2 Yeyi Zhu,7,8 and Deborah H. Bennett9 (Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes)
1Fellow Program, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
2Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San
Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
3Bioinformatics and Data Science, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
4Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA
5Department of Community, Environment and Policy, Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
6Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Heath, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
7Northern California Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, California, USA
8Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
9Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA
BACKGROUND: The National Institutes of Health’s Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) initiative aims to understand the
impact of environmental factors on childhood disease. Over 40,000 chemicals are approved for commercial use. The challenge is to prioritize chemi-
cals for biomonitoring that may present health risk concerns.
OBJECTIVES: Our aim was to prioritize chemicals that may elicit child health effects of interest to ECHO but that have not been biomonitored nation-
wide and to identify gaps needing additional research.
METHODS: We searched databases and the literature for chemicals in environmental media and in consumer products that were potentially toxic. We
selected chemicals that were not measured in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. From over 700 chemicals, we chose 155 chemi-
cals and created eight chemical panels. For each chemical, we compiled biomonitoring and toxicity data, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ex-
posure predictions, and annual production usage. We also applied predictive modeling to estimate toxicity. Using these data, we recommended
chemicals either for biomonitoring, to be deferred pending additional data, or as low priority for biomonitoring.
RESULTS: For the 155 chemicals, 97 were measured in food or water, 67 in air or house dust, and 52 in biospecimens. We found in vivo endocrine, de-
velopmental, reproductive, and neurotoxic effects for 61, 74, 47, and 32 chemicals, respectively. Eighty-six had data from high-throughput in vitro
assays. Positive results for endocrine, developmental, neurotoxicity, ...
Slide Deck from Release of Potential Health Impacts from Marcellus Drilling i...Marcellus Drilling News
A slide deck used during a session of the Maryland Safe Drilling Initiative Advisory Commission on August 18, 2014 in Frostburg, MD. The deck describes some of the key findings in a recently released potential health impacts from Marcellus drilling report ordered as part of the ongoing evaluataion by the state into whether or not to allow drilling. This deck is a good summary of the main points of the study.