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A Decision Analytic Approach to Exposure-Based Chemical Prioritization
The manufacture of novel synthetic chemicals has increased in volume and variety, but often the environmental and health risks are not fully understood in terms of toxicity and,... -
Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance Attributed to Electromagnetic Fields: A ...
Idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields (IEI-EMF) is a controversial condition in which people describe symptoms following exposure to... -
Fitting Characteristics of N95 Filtering-Facepiece Respirators Used Widely in...
BACKGROUND: Millions of people rely on N95 filtering facepiece respirators to reduce the risk of airborne particles and prevent them from respiratory infections. However, there... -
Foods and Dietary Patterns That Are Healthy, Low-Cost, and Environmentally Su...
Objective Global health challenges include non-communicable disease burdens, ensuring food security in the context of rising food prices, and environmental constraints around... -
Physiological Tolerance Times while Wearing Explosive Ordnance Disposal Prote...
Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technicians are required to wear protective clothing to protect themselves from the threat of overpressure, fragmentation, impact and heat. The... -
Dissemination of drinking water contamination data to consumers: a systematic...
BACKGROUND: Drinking water contaminated by chemicals or pathogens is a major public health threat in the developing world. Responses to this threat often require water consumers... -
Developing a scorecard to assess global progress in scaling up diarrhea contr...
Background In 2010, diarrhea caused 0.75 million child deaths, accounting for nearly 12% of all under-five mortality worldwide. Many evidence-based interventions can reduce... -
Bugging Forecast: Unknown, Disliked, Occasionally Intimate. Bed Bugs in Germa...
Bed bugs appear to be feared more than vector insects and other household pests. The reasons for this exaggerated fear are not fully understood. One hypothesis is that the folk... -
Systematic Neighborhood Observations at High Spatial Resolution: Methodology ...
There is a growing body of public health research documenting how characteristics of neighborhoods are associated with differences in the health status of residents. However,...