State of Alaska Epidemiology: Lead paint hazard disclosure required for homes and apartments

1997 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Lead Paint

Lead paint challenge

2016 ◽  
Vol 80 (10) ◽  
pp. 40-40 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Lead Paint

POLLUTANTS BOOST LEAD PAINT HAZARD

2009 ◽  
Vol 87 (43) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
CARMEN DRAHL
Keyword(s):  
Lead Paint

Identifying Lead Paint Hazards

1997 ◽  
pp. 94-102
Author(s):  
Irene Kessel ◽  
John T. O’Connor
Keyword(s):  
Lead Paint

scholarly journals Explaining the association between urbanicity and psychotic-like experiences in adolescence: The indirect effect of urban exposures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhishek Saxena ◽  
David Dodell-Feder
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Public Health Intervention ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Income Disparity ◽  
Lead Paint ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Worldwide Phenomenon ◽  
One Year

Urban living is a growing worldwide phenomenon with more than two-thirds of people expected to live in cities by 2050. Although there are many benefits to living in an urban environment, urbanicity has also been associated with deleterious health outcomes, including increased risk for psychotic outcomes particularly when the urban exposure occurs in adolescence. However, the mechanisms underlying this association is unclear. Here, we utilize one-year follow-up data from a large (N=7,979), nationwide study of adolescence in the United States to clarify why urbanicity might impact psychotic-like experiences (PLE) by looking at the indirect effect of eight candidate urbanicity-related physical (e.g., pollution) and social (e.g., poverty) exposures. Consistent with other work, we find that of the evaluated exposures related to urbanicity, several were also related to increased number of PLE and associated distress: PM2.5, proximity to roads, census-level homes at-risk for exposure to lead paint, census-level poverty, and census-level income-disparity. Mediation analysis revealed that a substantial proportion the urbanicity-PLE association could be explained by PM2.5 (23% of the urbanicity-PLE number association), families in poverty (57-67% of the urbanicity-PLE number and distress association), and income disparity (55-66% of the urbanicity-PLE number and distress association). Together, these findings suggest that specific urban-related exposures might help to explain why those in urban environments are disproportionately at-risk for psychosis and point towards areas for public health intervention.

scholarly journals TANTANGAN INDUSTRI CAT DALAM NEGERI DALAM MENGHADAPI GLOBAL LEAD PAINT ELIMINATION BY 2020

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Deni Cahyadi ◽  
Daniel Fajar Puspita ◽  
Wieke Pratiwi
Keyword(s):  
Protective Coatings ◽  
Lead Free ◽  
Lead Paint

Kajian ini menjelaskan mengenai perkembangan kandungan timbal dalam cat, kesiapan industri lokal, dan beberapa langkah strategis dan teknis yang dapat dilakukan oleh pihak terkait untuk menghadapi rencana penghilangan kandungan timbal pada produk cat pada tahun 2020. Pengujian beberapa produk cat yang dipasarkan di Indonesia pada Agustus 2015, menunjukkan bahwa cat tembok waterbased mengandung timbal antara 10-48 mg/kg,  cat  enamel  memiliki  kandungan  timbal  pada  kisaran  616-2254  mg/kg,  cat marka  jalan  jenis  oilbased mengandung  timbal  kira-kira  5876  mg/kg,  cat  antifouling  sebesar  27  mg/kg,  dan  cat  alkyd  untuk  keperluan protective coatings sebesar 50 mg/kg. Beberapa industri cat besar sudah mampu menghasilkan produk cat dengan kandungan timbal di bawah 90 mg/kg dan mencantumkan label lead free pada kemasan produknya. Tetapi industri cat menengah dan kecil belum memproduksi cat dengan kandungan timbal di bawah 90 mg/kg. Karena itu untuk menyongsong program global kandungan timbal di bawah 90 mg/kg menuju tahun 2020, pemerintah harus segera melakukan pembenahan regulasi teknis, revisi SNI, sosialisasi dan publikasi ilmiah, serta meningkatkan penelitian dan pengembangan bahan pengganti timbal. Pelatihan dan pendampingan teknis mungkin juga perlu dilakukan kepada Industri Kecil dan Menengah (IKM).Kata kunci: cat, timbal, regulasi

scholarly journals Living on the Edge - Defining Shipbreaking at the Edge of Globalisation in Alang, Inida

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Edward Dromgool
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Petroleum Hydrocarbons ◽  
Business Practice ◽  
Housing Conditions ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Lead Paint ◽  
Environmentally Safe ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Family Based ◽  
By Products

<p>Forty thousand men on the coastline of Alang, India, dismantle a large portion of the world’s discarded ships in a process referred to as shipbreaking. The discarded vessels are dismantled piece by piece, with no more than a gas torch and physical labour in a country with little to no regulations on the rules of labour or environmental protection. Workers of the shipbreaking yards live in slum dwellings, within a toxic landscape of petroleum hydrocarbons, heavy metals, lead paint and asbestos; all are toxic by-products of globalised industrialisation. As a result of the extreme work and poor housing conditions, the impoverished inhabitants are at high risk of life threatening diseases which commonly result in death. On the shipbreaking yard alone, an average of sixteen deaths per year occur as a result of the extremely hazardous working conditions. While the need to dismantle and recycle ships will not disappear any time soon, it is imperative that current practices become safe to both workers and the environment.  This thesis outlines a design project that introduces the creation of an ecosystem within the shipbreaking community of Alang by introducing many interconnected systems that allow for self-sufficiency. Inspired by concepts of bio-mimicry, the project provides the means to capture toxins safely using naturally produced materials; creates community, family based housing that replaces the current housing slums; and modernises the shipbreaking process by implementing a cyclical ecosystem that capitalises on the regions natural resources. By making the process of shipbreaking environmentally safe and creating a hazard free, more productive work environment, this project suggests that a business practice that is unwanted and hidden can be productive and economically viable.</p>

Lead Paint Exposure in Migrant Labor Camps

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 604-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Osband ◽  
James R. Tobin
Keyword(s):  
Lead Poisoning ◽  
Lead Exposure ◽  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Farm Labor ◽  
Lead Paint ◽  
Rural Settings ◽  
Labor Camps ◽  
Migrant Farm

During the summer of 1970, 117 migrant farm labor camps were studied for lead paint hazard. Of these, 115 had lead-based paint on their structures. The average dwelling had 50% of its surfaces painted with lead-based paints. The average dwelling had 40% of its paint in a peeling or chipping state. We conclude that all children living in such housing should be recognized as having been subjected to lead exposure. Because of this, lead poisoning should be more thoroughly looked for in rural settings.

Childhood Lead Poisoning and Other People’s Children

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda C. Fentiman
Keyword(s):  
Lead Poisoning ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Childhood Lead Poisoning ◽  
Core Group ◽  
Lead Paint ◽  
American Children ◽  
American Legal System ◽  
To Receive

This chapter examines childhood lead poisoning, which causes severe and irreversible cognitive and nervous system impairment, as well as behavioral problems, in more than half a million American children each year. While the United States has addressed some causes of lead poisoning, a core group of children, concentrated in poor, urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest, remains at high risk. In nearly every state, manufacturers of lead paint and other lead products have not been held responsible for this harm, even though they were aware of the risks of lead poisoning since the nineteenth century. Many landlords in lead poisoning cases succeed in shifting the blame from themselves to the tenants, arguing that mothers are the actual cause of harm to the child. Because the American legal system has traditionally preferred to find a single cause of harm that cuts off others’ responsibility, many children injured by exposure to lead fail to receive compensation and treatment for their injuries.

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