Geochemical and environmental health threat evaluation of heavy metals in groundwater of Asad Abad, Hamedan, Iran

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (24) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohsen Jalali ◽  
Masoumeh Ghanbari ◽  
Mahdi Jalali
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Threat ◽  
Threat Evaluation

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.

scholarly journals Effects of Several Heavy Metals on the Metabolism of Arachidonic Acid in Rabbit Alveolar Macrophages (Proceedings of the 18th Symposium on Toxicology, and Environmental Health)

Eisei kagaku ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. P4-P4
Author(s):  
NAOMI KUDO ◽  
MIHO AOYAMA ◽  
YASUHIRO NAKAJIMA ◽  
NAOKO MATSUKAWA ◽  
TATSUKI MATSUMOTO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Arachidonic Acid ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Alveolar Macrophages

scholarly journals Heavy-Metals as Environmental Health Indicator of the Lagos Lagoon Complex, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Atomic Absorption ◽  
Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer ◽  
Health Indicator ◽  
Fish Tissues ◽  
Pollution Status ◽  
Water Fish ◽  
Lagos Lagoon

The study was conducted on heavy metals contents of water, fish tissues and sediment from Lagos lagoon complex, Nigeria. The aim was to assess the current environmental health/pollution status of the lagoon from three sample stations: Ologe lagoon [1], Badagry creek [2] and Lagos island [3]; each having three (3) hotspots. In all, twelve (11) heavy metals were determined between June and November, 2018. Heavy metals: Zn, Fe, Pb, Cu, Na, Potassium, Ca, Mn, Cd, Hg and Nickel were determined using Atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AAS). Results of mean Heavy metals in fish tissues were: Zn (0.741±0.38), Fe (5.59±8.32), Pb (0.12±0.17mg/l), Cu (0.16±0.25), Na (9.38±0.25), Ca (116.68±41.53), Mn (0.76±0.96), Pb (0.01±0.0), Cd (0.02±0.0), Potassium (12.09±2.34), Ni (0.02±0.02) and Hg (0.01±0.0). Statistical analysis showed variations in the distribution of Heavy metals which are mostly within recommended limits of WHO, FME, & LASEPA. Except for iron (Fe), which was found in excess in fish tissues, and other metals (lead), found in higher conc. in sediments than in water and fish tissues combined. This is indicative of heavy metals bio-accumulation in the study area.

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.

scholarly journals Gendered dimensions of environmental health, contaminants and global change in Nunavik, Canada

2007 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Kafarowski
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Global Change ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Circumpolar North ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Justice Studies

Abstract As has been well-documented in the scholarly literature over the last two decades, contaminants pose a potentially significant threat to the short and long-term health of Arctic human and natural environments and raise questions of social and environmental justice. Studies link contaminants such as heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants and radionuclides with the use of traditional country foods by Indigenous peoples including the Inuit. Adversely impacting Inuit communities in a myriad of ways, contaminants represent one manifestation of global change across the circumpolar North. Focusing on the community of Inukjuak, Nunavik (Northern Québec), Canada, this paper investigates the roles of Inuit women and men vis-à-vis participation in hunting activities and the identification of contaminants, and demonstrates how women and men construct the lead contaminant issue differently. Additionally, the paper explores why including the perspectives of both is critical to the development of effective environmental health policies, programs and strategies in response to these contaminants.

scholarly journals Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Environmental Health Risk of Heavy Metals in Industrial Wastewater of China during 1999–2018

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 5920
Author(s):  
Ruru Han ◽  
Beihai Zhou ◽  
Huilun Chen
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Industrial Wastewater ◽  
Population Distribution ◽  
Temporal Distribution ◽  
Life Years ◽  
Environmental Health Risk ◽  
Spatio Temporal

In recent decades, environmental health risk caused by heavy metals in industrial wastewater (EHR-IHM) has become a serious issue globally, especially for China. Given the spatial difference of heavy metal emissions, hydrogeography, population distribution, etc., it is essential to estimate China’s EHR-IHM from a high-resolution perspective. Based on the framework of USEtox, this study constructs an environmental health risk assessment method for heavy metals discharged from industrial wastewater by coupling the Pollutant Accumulation Model (PAM). This method also considers the process of heavy metal flows between upstream and downstream areas. Based on this constructed method, we investigate the spatio-temporal distribution of EHR-IHM of As, Cd, Cr(VI), Hg, and Pb in China from 1999 to 2018. Results showed that the EHR-IHM in China increased rapidly during 1999–2007 and decreased gradually during 2007–2018, with the highest Damage Level (DL) of 6.8 × 104 disability-adjusted life years (DALY). As and Cr(VI) were the major heavy metal pollutants, which induced 58.9–70.6% and 23.9–36.2% of the total EHR-IHM, respectively. Intake of aquatic products was the dominant exposure route, accounting for over 84.1% of national EHR-IHM, followed by drinking water intake, accounting for 9.5–15.8%. Regarding spatial distribution, the regions with high EHR-IHM are mainly distributed in the middle–lower reaches of the Yangtze River, southeast coastal cities, Bohai Rim, etc.

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