scholarly journals Experience of estimation of negative impact of noise to the human health in conditions of urban territories

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 75-79
Author(s):  
Andrey V. Vasilyev
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Urban Territories

scholarly journals ACOUSTICAL MONITORING, PLANNING AND DESIGN OF URBAN TERRITORIES

Akustika ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 152-156
Author(s):  
Sergio Luzzi ◽  
Andrey Vasilyev
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Territories ◽  
Acoustical Monitoring

The problems connected with acoustical monitoring, planning and design of urban territories are considered. Approaches to acoustical monitoring of urban territories are described. Peculiarities of acoustical planning and design of urban territories are described taking to account European and Russian experience. The holistic approach to planning and acoustical design of landscapes is suggested. Smart solutions are considered as a part of the global comfort scheme: smart urban planning shows various connections with smart noise action plans. Examples of smart solutions are presented. The results of work are allowing to make more comfortable acoustical environment in urban territories and to reduce negative impact of noise to the human health more efficiently.

scholarly journals Decreased cortisol among hikers who preferentially visit and value biodiverse riparian zones

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellie Opdahl ◽  
Kathryn Demps ◽  
Julie A. Heath
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Salivary Cortisol ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Riparian Areas ◽  
Indirect Pathway ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Gps Tracks

AbstractWhile outdoor recreationists often report increases to their well-being for time spent in nature, the mechanisms through which local ecologies affect human health have been difficult to quantify, and thus to manage. We combine data from pre-post salivary cortisol measures, GPS tracks, visitor photos, and surveys from 88 hikers traversing several types of landscape within peri-urban public lands in southwest Idaho, USA. We find that time in biodiverse riparian areas and areas of perceived aesthetic value correlates with decreases in salivary cortisol and improved well-being for hikers. Wildlife sightings were not associated with changes in salivary cortisol, but were associated with riparian travel and aesthetic preferences, indicating an indirect pathway for ecosystem services. Additionally, wildlife sightings decreased on high-use days, even though hikers did not perceive a negative impact of their recreational activity. These results suggest that cultural and physiological ecosystem services of nature depend on the ecological community of the area. Preferential visitation and high service value of riparian areas by hikers and wildlife alike target shared riparian areas as hot spots for management efforts to promote both ecological and human health within an increasingly urbanizing world.

scholarly journals Innovative aspects of ensuring the environmental safety of hotel enterprises in the Rostov region

2020 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 05006
Author(s):  
Galina Ekinil ◽  
Valeria Provotorina ◽  
Antonina Petrenko ◽  
Lyubov Gorgadze
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Rostov Region ◽  
Safety Recommendations

This study is aimed at analyzing hotel enterprises in the Rostov region and identifying the main approaches to ensuring environmental safety; recommendations for the implementation of environmental innovations in hotel enterprises are proposed, which can significantly reduce the negative impact on human health and the environment.

scholarly journals Association between Human Health and Indoor Air Pollution in Saudi Arabia: Indoor Environmental Quality Survey

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-66
Author(s):  
Mohd Saleem ◽  
Mohd Adnan Kausar ◽  
Fahmida Khatoon ◽  
Sadaf Anwar ◽  
Syed Monowar Alam Shahid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Indoor Air Quality ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Indoor Air ◽  
Indoor Air Pollution ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Natural Light ◽  
Common Symptom ◽  
Indoor Environmental Quality

In many aspects of life quality, bio-contaminants and indoor air quality have had catastrophic consequences, including a negative impact on human health with an increased prevalence of allergic respiratory reactions, asthma, and infectious diseases. We aimed to evaluate the quality of indoor air environment and find out the association between human health and indoor air pollution and also to assess the physical health status of a group of Saudi and non-Saudi populations during this pandemic. Also, we aimed to assess the most common health condition or symptoms associated with ventilation. A questionnaire was distributed online to test indoor air quality, ventilation status, common signs and symptoms of any allergy or mental status and their relationship to certain variables. A total of 362 respondents were included. Before living in the current home, flu or Influenza and chapped lips were more prevalent than allergies and chapped lips signs while living in the current home. (12.2% , 10.8% vs. 18.5% , 13.55% before and after respectively) Multiple colds were the second most common symptom (10.2%). Hoarse voice and headaches were the least common symptoms experienced; each constituted 4.4%. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, most respondents wore a facemask, approximately 76.5%; and almost one-third of respondents had bright natural light inside the current home (43.1%). The presence of natural light within the current home was significantly associated with symptoms experienced during living in the current house (p<0.05). Natural sunlight exposure could decrease allergic symptoms and minor health problems associated with poor ventilation and air quality indoors. In current living homes, the majority of respondents never used air purifiers (72.9 percent). In order to get attention from people to enhance the quality and ventilation mechanism of indoor air, special care and awareness of the effects of the use of air purifiers on human health is needed.

Nanomaterials Useful in Health and Medicine to Improve Public Health

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-74
Author(s):  
Manish Kumar Dwivedi ◽  
Suvashish Kumar Pandey ◽  
Prashant Kumar Singh
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
Drug Delivery Systems ◽  
High Stability ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
High Specificity ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Novel Drug

In modern research, nanotechnology is a very attractive technology and helps to reduce infectious diseases. Nanoparticles have gained significantly more important than the bulk counterparts due to their unique properties. This chapter gives knowledge about the general introduction of nanoparticles with classification and also discussed the effect of nanoparticles impact on public health. Nanotechnology is most widely used to reduced different types of infectious diseases such as bacterial, viral, parasitic diseases, etc. Nanotechnology is applied to detect different types of diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and other diseases. Nanotechnology is a useful technique to develop novel drug delivery systems due to their high specificity, high drug-carrying capacity, and high stability. Nanotechnology can be able to improve human health but on the other hand, we have seen a negative impact on human health and environmental health. The solubility and toxicity of nanoparticles is a major issue worldwide.

scholarly journals The Potential of Remedial Techniques for Hazard Reduction of Steel Process by Products: Impact on Steel Processing, Waste Management, the Environment and Risk to Human Health

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 2093 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiri Rodgers ◽  
Iain McLellan ◽  
Simon Cuthbert ◽  
Victoria Masaguer Torres ◽  
Andrew Hursthouse
Keyword(s):  
Blast Furnace ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Electrostatic Precipitator ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Basic Oxygen Furnace ◽  
Organic Additives ◽  
Chemical Cleaning ◽  
By Products

The negative impact from industrial pollution of the environment is still a global occurrence, and as a consequence legislation and subsequent regulation is becoming increasingly stringent in response, in particular, to minimising potential impact on human health. These changes have generated growing pressures for the steel industry to innovate to meet new regulations driving a change to the approach to waste management across the industrial landscape, with increasing focus on the principles of a circular economy. With a knowledge of the compositional profiles of process by-products, we have assessed chemical cleaning to improve environmental performance and minimise disruption to manufacturing processes, demonstrating re-use and recycling capacity. We show that with a knowledge of phase composition, we are able to apply stabilisation methods that can either utilise waste streams directly or allow manipulation, making them suitable for re-use and/or inert disposal. We studied blast furnace slags and Portland cement mixes (50%/50% and 30%/70%) with a variety of other plant wastes (electrostatic precipitator dusts (ESP), blast furnace (BF) sludge and basic oxygen furnace (BOF) sludge) which resulted in up to 90% immobilisation of hazardous constituents. The addition of organic additives i.e., citric acid can liberate or immobilise problematic constituents; in the case of K, both outcomes occurred depending on the waste type; ESP dust BF sludge and BOF fine sludge. Pb and Zn however were liberated with a 50–80% and 50–60% residue reduction respectively, which generates possibilities for alternative uses of materials to reduce environmental and human health impact.

scholarly journals The livestock reservoir for antimicrobial resistance: a personal view on changing patterns of risks, effects of interventions and the way forward

2015 ◽  
Vol 370 (1670) ◽  
pp. 20140085 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank M. Aarestrup
Keyword(s):  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Antimicrobial Agents ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Global Burden ◽  
Antimicrobial Use ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Changing Patterns

The purpose of this review was to provide an updated overview on the use of antimicrobial agents in livestock, the associated problems for humans and current knowledge on the effects of reducing resistance in the livestock reservoir on both human health and animal production. There is still limiting data on both use of antimicrobial agents, occurrence and spread of resistance as well as impact on human health. However, in recent years, emerging issues related to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus , Clostridium difficile , Escherichia coli and horizontally transferred genes indicates that the livestock reservoir has a more significant impact on human health than was estimated 10 years ago, where the focus was mainly on resistance in Campylobacter and Salmonella . Studies have indicated that there might only be a marginal if any benefit from the regular use of antibiotics and have shown that it is possible to substantially reduce the use of antimicrobial agents in livestock production without compromising animal welfare or health or production. In some cases, this should be done in combination with other measures such as biosecurity and use of vaccines. To enable better studies on both the global burden and the effect of interventions, there is a need for global harmonized integrated and continuous surveillance of antimicrobial usage and antimicrobial resistance, preferably associated with data on production and animal diseases to determine the positive and negative impact of reducing antimicrobial use in livestock.

Construction of Database and Intake Model on the Optimal Allocation System of the Edible Agricultural Products' Nutrition-Functional Components

2013 ◽  
Vol 816-817 ◽  
pp. 1193-1196
Author(s):  
Ming Hua Wei ◽  
Qiao Ling Zhou ◽  
Jin Gui Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Optimal Allocation ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Allocation System ◽  
Consumption Model ◽  
Functional Components

In daily life, the nutrients taken from the food of the human body are often insufficient or surplus, which has a negative impact on human health and waste of agricultural nutrients as well. There is some catering software that can guide people about the intake of the nutrients at home and abroad, but they can only realize the analysis function, that is, tell the user that the nutrients intake is inadequate or exceed the standard. The optimal allocation system of the edible agricultural products' nutrition-functional components is introduced in this paper. It can make the real-time intervention during the users ordering process, adjust diet structure of the user, introduce in detail the process of database and consumption model construction, and gives the flow chart of the system and the hand-held terminal interface.

scholarly journals A review of particulate matter emissions and impacts on human health: A focus on Canadian agricultural and rural emission sources

2018 ◽  
pp. 6.09-6.21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Spencer ◽  
Bill Van Heyst
Keyword(s):  
Particulate Matter ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Fine Particulate Matter ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Inorganic Aerosols ◽  
Particulate Matter Emissions ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Impact

Particulate matter (PM) has been documented in an increasing number of research studies as having a known or suspected negative impact on human health. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 3.1 million deaths were caused by ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in 2010. While many Canadian studies focus on health impacts from PM2.5, there is a gap with respect to rural sourced PM2.5 and health impacts in these areas. This paper reviews the impact PM2.5 has on Canadians’ health, investigates where PM2.5 data is being gathered, and outlines the sources of PM2.5 reported. Secondary inorganic aerosols that are formed in and around animal production facilities due to the higher prevalence of ammonia gas is of particular interest. The conclusion drawn is that the reporting and gathering of rural sourced PM2.5 data is lacking, leading to a gap in the data used to determine the impacts on Canadian human health.

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