Monitoring of contaminated areas: Environmental Health Surveillance actions in Diadema/SP Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Garbin ◽  
F Corrallo ◽  
J Jesus
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Health Surveillance ◽  
Technical Support ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Deep Wells ◽  
Water Compartment ◽  
Exposure Routes ◽  
And Control

Abstract Contaminated areas are a challenge for public health, since the most diverse chemicals can interfere with human health, making it necessary to adopt health promotion measures, prevention and control of diseases and diseases. That way this work aims to disseminate the actions carried out by the Environmental Health Surveillance of the city of Diadema to monitor the contaminated areas, aiming at reducing the risk to the population's health. For this purpose, it was carried out the characterization of the environment of the contaminated areas using Mapinfo software and tools free of georeferencing, recording of information from research in information and dissemination systems for institutions, services and municipal authorities. As a result, it can be highlighted that 100% of the areas were characterized with definitive radius of surroundings based on the affected environmental compartment; 88,63% were registered in the Health Surveillance Information System for Populations exposed to contaminated soil (SISSOLO). In 27.3% of the areas deep wells were found and out of these, 83.30% they made the buffering/deactivation and 16.7% use the water for industrial purposes. Of the identified wells around 54,5% were buffered/deactivated and 18,2% are under monitoring. It is concluded that it is essential to continuously monitor the territory through different strategies, seeking technical support, invest in intra- and intersectoral articulation and define work processes in order to detect changes in the determinants and constraints of the environment that interfere with human health and thus be able to act in the best possible way. Additionally, it was found that mapping prior to field work is essential to qualify the information and that including the investigation of the water compartment is important to identify and interrupt exposure routes so present in daily life. Key messages It is concluded that it is essential to continuously monitor the territory through different strategies, seeking technical support, invest in intra- and intersectoral articulation. It was found that mapping prior to field work is essential to qualify the information and that including the investigation of the water compartment is important to interrupt exposure routes.

scholarly journals Environment & Health: perspectives and challenges

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronaldo Figueiró ◽  
Adriano Arnóbio
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Concept Of Health ◽  
Conceptual Relation ◽  
And Control

The concept of health and environmental health is a historical-conceptual relation with the twentieth century. In this article, environmental health is discussed as a of intersectional and transdisciplinary practices dedicated to the reflections, in human health, of the ecogeossocial relations of man with the environment, aiming well-being, life quality and sustainability, in order to guide public policies formulated using the available knowledge and with social participation and control. In this context, infectious diseases play a key role in the comprehension of environmental health in Brazil and worldwide.

scholarly journals PUBLIC POLICIES AND ANIMAL WELL BEING: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC REVIEW

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 040-047
Author(s):  
Gil Dutra Furtado ◽  
Grazielly Diniz Duarte ◽  
Flávio Santos Guimarães ◽  
Soraya Abrantes Pinto de Brito ◽  
Martin Lindsey Christoffersen
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Deductive Reasoning ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
And Control

The populational control of wandering animals and the well-being of animals are among the non-resolved public policies in Brazil. The lack (or non-application) of educational and punitive laws in the area are some of the reasons for implementing Federal, State, and Municipal Public Policies dealing with this issue. The aim of this literature review is to reflect on the need for developing public policies focused on the surveillance and control of zoonoses in Brazil. By deductive reasoning, associated with bibliographic revision and documental research, we studied the norms, doctrines, and philosophical currents relevant to the area. We provide a brief summary of public policies in general. Next, we approach the concept of unified health, that considers the interdependency between human health, animal health and environmental health. We analyze the judicialization of public policies so that the State and the collectivity observe their duty to guard animals and protect the fauna. In this way, they may indirectly help to protect the human being. We try to enforce the implementation of public policies centered on the protection of animals, of the environment, and of human beings deriving from the concept of unified health.

Miniature Bioreactors for Rapid Bioprocess Development of Mammalian Cell Culture

2012 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Helmi Sani ◽  
Frank Baganz
Keyword(s):  
Cell Culture ◽  
Mammalian Cell ◽  
Process Development ◽  
Mammalian Cell Culture ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Cell Culture Process ◽  
Deep Wells ◽  
Working Volume ◽  
Culture Process ◽  
And Control

At present, there are a number of commercial small scale shaken systems available on the market with instrumented controllable microbioreactors such as Micro–24 Microreactor System (Pall Corporation, Port Washington, NY) and M2P Biolector, (M2P Labs GmbH, Aachen, Germany). The Micro–24 system is basically an orbital shaken 24–well plate that operates at working volume 3 – 7 mL with 24 independent reactors (deep wells, shaken and sparged) running simultaneously. Each reactor is designed as single use reactor that has the ability to continuously monitor and control the pH, DO and temperature. The reactor aeration is supplied by sparging air from gas feeds that can be controlled individually. Furthermore, pH can be controlled by gas sparging using either dilute ammonia or carbon dioxide directly into the culture medium through a membrane at the bottom of each reactor. Chen et al., (2009) evaluated the Micro–24 system for the mammalian cell culture process development and found the Micro–24 system is suitable as scaledown tool for cell culture application. The result showed that intra-well reproducibility, cell growth, metabolites profiles and protein titres were scalable with 2 L bioreactors.

scholarly journals Occurrence, Impact on Agriculture, Human Health, and Management Strategies of Zearalenone in Food and Feed: A Review

Toxins ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Dipendra Kumar Mahato ◽  
Sheetal Devi ◽  
Shikha Pandhi ◽  
Bharti Sharma ◽  
Kamlesh Kumar Maurya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Fungal Metabolites ◽  
Natural Estrogens ◽  
Food And Feed ◽  
Feed Safety ◽  
And Control ◽  
Different Sources

Mycotoxins represent an assorted range of secondary fungal metabolites that extensively occur in numerous food and feed ingredients at any stage during pre- and post-harvest conditions. Zearalenone (ZEN), a mycotoxin categorized as a xenoestrogen poses structural similarity with natural estrogens that enables its binding to the estrogen receptors leading to hormonal misbalance and numerous reproductive diseases. ZEN is mainly found in crops belonging to temperate regions, primarily in maize and other cereal crops that form an important part of various food and feed. Because of the significant adverse effects of ZEN on both human and animal, there is an alarming need for effective detection, mitigation, and management strategies to assure food and feed safety and security. The present review tends to provide an updated overview of the different sources, occurrence and biosynthetic mechanisms of ZEN in various food and feed. It also provides insight to its harmful effects on human health and agriculture along with its effective detection, management, and control strategies.

scholarly journals Environmental Health Surveillance of Low Birth Weight in Seoul using Air Monitoring and Birth Data

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ju-Hee Seo ◽  
Eun-Hee Ha ◽  
Ok-Jin Kim ◽  
Byung-Mi Kim ◽  
Hye-Sook Park ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Surveillance ◽  
Air Monitoring ◽  
Birth Data

scholarly journals A “One Health” surveillance and control of brucellosis in developing countries: Moving away from improvisation

2013 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques Godfroid ◽  
Sascha Al Dahouk ◽  
Georgios Pappas ◽  
Felix Roth ◽  
Gift Matope ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
One Health ◽  
Health Surveillance ◽  
And Control

A Spatially Explicit Environmental Health Surveillance Framework for Tick-Borne Diseases

2011 ◽  
pp. 357-371
Author(s):  
Aldo Aviña ◽  
Chetan Tiwari ◽  
Phillip Williamson ◽  
Joseph Oppong ◽  
Sam Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Surveillance ◽  
Spatially Explicit

Friends of the Earth and Environmental Health

2019 ◽  
pp. 16-42
Author(s):  
Jennifer Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Environmental Organization ◽  
Individual Health ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Consumer Choices ◽  
Litmus Test

This chapter discusses the long first decade of environmental organization Friends of the Earth (1969-1984). Founded by David Brower, FOE's central contribution to environmentalism was to move from the Sierra Club's understanding of wilderness as a retreat within which certain individuals' health could be regenerated, to thinking of human health as a litmus test for the health of the environment. Although the more systemic and anti-authoritarian of these approaches faded by the early 1980s, others pertaining to consumption and individual health persisted within mainstream environmentalism. The result was a politics in which the primary subject position was held by an undifferentiated, globalized, non-place-specific consumer in need of governmental protection yet also responsible for ensuring her own health through proper consumer choices. FOE's development during its long first decade illustrates the growing importance of individualized, consumer-based conceptions of health to the consolidation, in the early 1980s, of the environmental lobby in Washington, D.C.

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