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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... -
A Phylogenetic Re-Analysis of Groupers with Applications for Ciguatera Fish P...
Background Ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) is a significant public health problem due to dinoflagellates. It is responsible for one of the highest reported incidence of... -
Evaluation of a Public Health Intervention to Lower Mercury Exposure from Fis...
Objectives To assess the efficacy of a public health intervention to reduce blood mercury (Hg) concentration levels in pregnant Bermudian women. Methods In 2003, we... -
Risk factors for neck and upper extremity disorders among computer users and ...
BACKGROUND: To summarize systematic reviews that 1) assessed the evidence for causal relationships between computer work and the occurrence of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) or... -
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... -
Local Modelling Techniques for Assessing Micro-Level Impacts of Risk Factors ...
Although inequalities in health and socioeconomic status have an important influence on childhood educational performance, the interactions between these multiple factors... -
Evaluating the Impact of Flexible Alcohol Trading Hours on Violence: An Inter...
BACKGROUND: On November 24 2005, the Government of England and Wales removed regulatory restrictions on the times at which licensed premises could sell alcohol. This study tests... -
Justice Is the Missing Link in One Health: Results of a Mixed Methods Study i...
Background One Health (OH) is an interdisciplinary collaborative approach to human and animal health that aims to break down conventional research and policy ‘silos’. OH has... -
Qualichem in vivo: a tool for assessing the quality of in vivo studies and it...
In regulatory toxicology, quality assessment of in vivo studies is a critical step for assessing chemical risks. It is crucial for preserving public health studies that are... -
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... -
Systematic Omics Analysis Review (SOAR) tool to support risk assessment.
: Environmental health risk assessors are challenged to understand and incorporate new data streams as the field of toxicology continues to adopt new molecular and systems... -
Producing knowledge by admitting ignorance: Enhancing data quality through an...
: The "noisy labeler problem" in crowdsourced data has attracted great attention in recent years, with important ramifications in citizen science, where non-experts must produce... -
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... -
Why (not) participate in citizen science? Motivational factors and barriers t...
This study explores the motivational factors and barriers to participate in a citizen science program for malaria control in Rwanda. It assesses the changes in motivational... -
Societal Risk Evaluation Scheme (SRES): Scenario-Based Multi-Criteria Evaluat...
Synthetic biology (SB) applies engineering principles to biology for the construction of novel biological systems designed for useful purposes. From an oversight perspective, SB...
