Educating Young People about Environmental Health Risks: Results from National Field Trials of the Environmental Health Risk Module

1996 ◽  
pp. 65-131
Author(s):  
Vincent T. Covello
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Field Trials ◽  
Environmental Health Risks ◽  
Environmental Health Risk

Environmental health risks

2013 ◽  
pp. 178-187
Author(s):  
Roscoe Taylor ◽  
Charles Guest
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Risk Assessment ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
Health Threat ◽  
Environmental Health Risks ◽  
Environmental Health Risk

This chapter will help you to understand the environmental health in the rapidly changing context of health protection, the usefulness of having a framework for environmental health risk assessment, and the process of identifying, evaluating, and planning a response to an environmental health threat.

Environmental health risks and assessment

2020 ◽  
pp. 196-207
Author(s):  
Wendy Heiger-Bernays ◽  
Kathryn Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Risk Assessment ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
Health Threat ◽  
Environmental Health Risks ◽  
Environmental Health Risk

This chapter will help you appreciate: environmental health in the rapidly changing context of health protection; the utility of having a framework for environmental health risk assessment; the process for conducting an environmental health risk assessment; the major strengths and limitations of risk assessment; the process of identifying, evaluating, and planning a response to an environmental health threat.

Embodied Burning, E-Waste Epidemiology, and Toxic Postcolonial Corporality

2021 ◽  
pp. 105-134
Author(s):  
Peter C. Little
Keyword(s):  
Health Risk ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Illness Narratives ◽  
Metal Extraction ◽  
Environmental Health Risks ◽  
Environmental Health Risk ◽  
Toxic Exposures ◽  
Ethnographic Narratives

This chapter introduces the ways in which e-pyropolitics are embodied by exploring the illness narratives and bodily distress experiences of several copper burners. The author draws on ethnographic narratives to explore how Agbogbloshie workers narrate, understand, and refer to their own bodily distress to make sense of the toxic exposures and environmental health risks they face. In addition to exploring how toxic embodiment and experience break down or reconfigure demarcations of body and environment, the author highlights the ways in which toxicity and corporality become the site of laudable environmental health risk mitigation efforts that ironically fail to transform or reduce toxic corporality in an enduring postcolonial context. In this way, the author explores how a solutions-based intervention in Agbogbloshie overlooks the complexity and diversity of eco-corporeal relations in a tech metal extraction zone where bodies, toxins, and economies intersect.

scholarly journals Analysis of Environmental Health Risk of So2, No2, Nh3, and Dust Exposure In Sentra Industri Surabaya, Gresik And Sidoarjo City

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1346-1352
Author(s):  
Bintang Aji Pangestu ◽  
R. Azizah ◽  
Rica Naudita Krisna Setioningrum
Keyword(s):  
Health Risk ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Air Pollutants ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Dust Exposure ◽  
Chemical Agent ◽  
Environmental Health Risks ◽  
Environmental Health Risk

Every process of industrial activity generates potential waste as air pollutants. Air pollution needs to be analyzed to estimate the magnitude of the risk posed. The purpose of this study was to investigate environmental health risks in exposure to SO2, NO2, NH3, and dust gases for workers in Surabaya, Gresik, and Sidoarjo. The method of this research is by collecting secondary data was obtained from BBTKLPP Surabaya. The secondary data collected was calculated using the Environmental Health Risk Analysis (ARKL) method by finding the concentration value, the amount of intake, and the characteristics of the maximum and minimum health risks of each chemical agent in the air parameters in the work environment. The research results show that the concentrations of exposure to SO2, NO2, NH3, and dust in the safe category at the industrial centers of Surabaya, Gresik, and Sidoarjo for workers.

scholarly journals Ecological Health Risk of Buriganga River, Dhaka, Bangladesh

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 25-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd. Yousuf Ali ◽  
Md. Nurul Amin ◽  
Khairul Alam
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Oxygen Demand ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Ecological Health ◽  
Environmental Health Risks ◽  
Sustainable Policy ◽  
Buriganga River

The efforts of modern civilization to create an environment to meet human aspirations have successfully resulted in constant improvements of our lifestyle, but it has increased risks to human and ecological health. This situation has motivated many scientists throughout the world to analyze the environmental factors that can affect our health or ecology and to calculate the levels of risk. In Bangladesh development activities and utilization of the river pose a great threat to the health of the existing natural environmental system, particularly for the important river Buriganga of the capital city, Dhaka, due to the pollution of the river water. A study was carried out to observe the ecological health hazards of the Buriganga river and their risk to human health. Several random samples of water were collected from different spots on the river from September to December 2006. The samples were analyzed to determine water quality and associated environmental health risks. The study revealed that the water is high in biological oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD), phosphate (PO4 -3), ammonia, organic matters and nutrients, etc. It also revealed huge environmental health risks and possible ecological disruption of this river. Finally, the research recommends a sustainable policy framework on how the pollution could significantly be reduced by using different appropriate measures. Key words: Environmental health risk, ecological disruption, sustainable policy, water quality, Buriganga river, Bangladesh  doi: 10.3126/hn.v3i0.1915 Hydro Nepal:Journal of Water, Energy and Environment Issue No. 3, July 2008. Page: 25-28

scholarly journals Household Decision Making and Valuation of Environmental Health Risks to Parents and Their Children

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wiktor Adamowicz ◽  
Mark Dickie ◽  
Shelby Gerking ◽  
Marcella Veronesi ◽  
David Zinner
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Environmental Health Risks ◽  
Household Decision Making
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