Science of the Total Environment, ISSN 0048-9697, 07/2018, Volume 628-629, pp. 1165 - 1177
Personal monitoring for fine particulate matter (PM ) was conducted for adults (48 subjects, 18–63 years of age) in Hong Kong during the summer and winter of...
Time-activity diaries | Mixed-effects model | Particulate constituents | Fine particulate matter | Personal exposure | RESIDENTIAL OUTDOOR | AMBIENT-GENERATED EXPOSURE | CHINESE MEGACITY | ASSOCIATIONS | PARTICLES | INDOOR | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | TRACE-ELEMENTS | AIR-POLLUTION | BLACK SMOKE | FIXED-SITE | Air pollution | Adults | Sulfates | Epidemiology | Analysis
Time-activity diaries | Mixed-effects model | Particulate constituents | Fine particulate matter | Personal exposure | RESIDENTIAL OUTDOOR | AMBIENT-GENERATED EXPOSURE | CHINESE MEGACITY | ASSOCIATIONS | PARTICLES | INDOOR | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | TRACE-ELEMENTS | AIR-POLLUTION | BLACK SMOKE | FIXED-SITE | Air pollution | Adults | Sulfates | Epidemiology | Analysis
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Environmental Research, ISSN 0013-9351, 05/2016, Volume 147, pp. 383 - 398
Air pollution is associated with increased risk of respiratory, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, but its association with cognitive functioning and...
Neurodevelopment | Air pollution | Cognition | BLACK CARBON | CHILD IQ | PRENATAL EXPOSURE | POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC-HYDROCARBONS | LONG-TERM EXPOSURE | ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO-SMOKE | RESIDENTIAL PROXIMITY | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | COHORT | FINE PARTICULATE MATTER | ASSOCIATION | Air Pollution - adverse effects | Vehicle Emissions - toxicity | Age Factors | Humans | Index Medicus
Neurodevelopment | Air pollution | Cognition | BLACK CARBON | CHILD IQ | PRENATAL EXPOSURE | POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC-HYDROCARBONS | LONG-TERM EXPOSURE | ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO-SMOKE | RESIDENTIAL PROXIMITY | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | COHORT | FINE PARTICULATE MATTER | ASSOCIATION | Air Pollution - adverse effects | Vehicle Emissions - toxicity | Age Factors | Humans | Index Medicus
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Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, ISSN 1559-0631, 01/2013, Volume 23, Issue 1, pp. 2 - 12
During much of the twentieth century, Jersey City, New Jersey was the leading center of chromate production in the United States. Chromate production produced...
COPR | chromium | biomonitoring | hexavalent chromium | urine | dust | RESIDENTIAL EXPOSURE | CANCER | HAND | CHILDREN | HOMES | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | SITES | TOXICOLOGY | ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE | Environmental Monitoring | Public Health | Chromates - analysis | Environmental Exposure | Environmental Restoration and Remediation | Industrial Waste | New Jersey | Chromium | Hazardous waste sites | Research | Environmental monitoring | Emissions (Pollution) | Health aspects | Index Medicus | Households | Urban areas | Pollution monitoring | Chromate | Contamination | Emissions | Dust | Contaminants | Bioindicators | Bioremediation | Wastes | Sampling | Public health
COPR | chromium | biomonitoring | hexavalent chromium | urine | dust | RESIDENTIAL EXPOSURE | CANCER | HAND | CHILDREN | HOMES | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | SITES | TOXICOLOGY | ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE | Environmental Monitoring | Public Health | Chromates - analysis | Environmental Exposure | Environmental Restoration and Remediation | Industrial Waste | New Jersey | Chromium | Hazardous waste sites | Research | Environmental monitoring | Emissions (Pollution) | Health aspects | Index Medicus | Households | Urban areas | Pollution monitoring | Chromate | Contamination | Emissions | Dust | Contaminants | Bioindicators | Bioremediation | Wastes | Sampling | Public health
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Social Science & Medicine, ISSN 0277-9536, 10/2015, Volume 143, pp. 98 - 106
Mexican Americans along the US-Mexico border have been found to be disproportionately affected by chronic diseases particularly related to lack of physical...
Fruit and vegetable consumption | Evidenced based intervention | Physical activity | US-Mexico border | Community-wide campaign | Health disparities | MEDIA CAMPAIGN | SOCIAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICAL | RELIABILITY | PREVALENCE | PEOPLE CHANGE | ACTIVITY QUESTIONNAIRE | WEIGHT-LOSS INTERVENTION | OBESITY | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | OVERWEIGHT | EPIDEMIOLOGY | BEHAVIORS | Mexican Americans | Vegetables | Cross-Sectional Studies | Fruit | United States | Humans | Middle Aged | Life Style - ethnology | Male | Feeding Behavior - ethnology | Exercise | Health Education - methods | Diet - ethnology | Healthcare Disparities | Adult | Female | Surveys and Questionnaires | Chronic diseases | Physical fitness | Analysis | Consumption | Health insurance | Evidence based practice | Health | Health problems | Sex | Campaigns | Associations | Diseases | Educational attainment | Residential preferences | Mass media effects | Marital status | Television | Choices | Health behavior | Lifestyle | Lifestyles | Diabetes | Mass media | Home health care | fruit and vegetable consumption | evidenced based intervention | health disparities | community-wide campaign | physical activity
Fruit and vegetable consumption | Evidenced based intervention | Physical activity | US-Mexico border | Community-wide campaign | Health disparities | MEDIA CAMPAIGN | SOCIAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICAL | RELIABILITY | PREVALENCE | PEOPLE CHANGE | ACTIVITY QUESTIONNAIRE | WEIGHT-LOSS INTERVENTION | OBESITY | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | OVERWEIGHT | EPIDEMIOLOGY | BEHAVIORS | Mexican Americans | Vegetables | Cross-Sectional Studies | Fruit | United States | Humans | Middle Aged | Life Style - ethnology | Male | Feeding Behavior - ethnology | Exercise | Health Education - methods | Diet - ethnology | Healthcare Disparities | Adult | Female | Surveys and Questionnaires | Chronic diseases | Physical fitness | Analysis | Consumption | Health insurance | Evidence based practice | Health | Health problems | Sex | Campaigns | Associations | Diseases | Educational attainment | Residential preferences | Mass media effects | Marital status | Television | Choices | Health behavior | Lifestyle | Lifestyles | Diabetes | Mass media | Home health care | fruit and vegetable consumption | evidenced based intervention | health disparities | community-wide campaign | physical activity
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Tobacco Control, ISSN 0964-4563, 05/2013, Volume 22, Issue 3, pp. 190 - 193
Background ‘Neighbour smoke’ is transfer of secondhand smoke between apartments including shared areas, such as hallways, community rooms and stairwells in...
Secondhand smoke | Apartment buildings | Houses | Residential buildings | Tobacco smoking | Place of residence | Children | Housing | Dwellings | Homes | NONSMOKERS | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | AIR | BUILDINGS | Housing - statistics & numerical data | Cross-Sectional Studies | Attitude to Health | Humans | Middle Aged | Male | Smoking - legislation & jurisprudence | Environmental Exposure - analysis | Tobacco Smoke Pollution - statistics & numerical data | Tobacco Smoke Pollution - legislation & jurisprudence | Young Adult | Smoking - epidemiology | Smoke-Free Policy | Adolescent | Aged, 80 and over | Denmark - epidemiology | Adult | Female | Aged | Environmental Exposure - statistics & numerical data | Housing - legislation & jurisprudence | Tobacco Smoke Pollution - analysis | Environmental Exposure - legislation & jurisprudence | Passive smoking | Demographic aspects | Analysis | Prevalence studies (Epidemiology) | Tobacco smoke | Education | Mortality | Questionnaires | Ventilation | Population | Bans | Gender | Age | Smoking
Secondhand smoke | Apartment buildings | Houses | Residential buildings | Tobacco smoking | Place of residence | Children | Housing | Dwellings | Homes | NONSMOKERS | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | AIR | BUILDINGS | Housing - statistics & numerical data | Cross-Sectional Studies | Attitude to Health | Humans | Middle Aged | Male | Smoking - legislation & jurisprudence | Environmental Exposure - analysis | Tobacco Smoke Pollution - statistics & numerical data | Tobacco Smoke Pollution - legislation & jurisprudence | Young Adult | Smoking - epidemiology | Smoke-Free Policy | Adolescent | Aged, 80 and over | Denmark - epidemiology | Adult | Female | Aged | Environmental Exposure - statistics & numerical data | Housing - legislation & jurisprudence | Tobacco Smoke Pollution - analysis | Environmental Exposure - legislation & jurisprudence | Passive smoking | Demographic aspects | Analysis | Prevalence studies (Epidemiology) | Tobacco smoke | Education | Mortality | Questionnaires | Ventilation | Population | Bans | Gender | Age | Smoking
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Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health, ISSN 1933-8244, 10/2014, Volume 69, Issue 4, pp. 191 - 206
The objective of this study was to evaluate the scientific literature concerning asbestos and lung cancer, emphasizing low-level exposure. A literature search...
lung cancer | asbestos | lung neoplasms | occupational exposure | smoking and asbestos | interaction between exposures | Smoking and asbestos | Asbestos | Interaction between exposures | Occupational exposure | Lung cancer | Lung neoplasms | MORTALITY EXPERIENCE | RESIDENTIAL RADON | DOSE-RESPONSE | RESPIRATORY-DISEASE | 2ND PRIMARY CANCERS | CEMENT WORKERS | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | CIGARETTE-SMOKING | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | AMOSITE ASBESTOS | HISTOLOGICAL TYPE | CHRYSOTILE ASBESTOS | Air Pollutants, Occupational - adverse effects | Smoking - adverse effects | Lung Neoplasms - etiology | Occupational Exposure - adverse effects | Humans | Occupational Diseases - etiology | Risk Factors | Asbestos - adverse effects | Lung Neoplasms - diagnosis | Occupational Diseases - diagnosis
lung cancer | asbestos | lung neoplasms | occupational exposure | smoking and asbestos | interaction between exposures | Smoking and asbestos | Asbestos | Interaction between exposures | Occupational exposure | Lung cancer | Lung neoplasms | MORTALITY EXPERIENCE | RESIDENTIAL RADON | DOSE-RESPONSE | RESPIRATORY-DISEASE | 2ND PRIMARY CANCERS | CEMENT WORKERS | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | CIGARETTE-SMOKING | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | AMOSITE ASBESTOS | HISTOLOGICAL TYPE | CHRYSOTILE ASBESTOS | Air Pollutants, Occupational - adverse effects | Smoking - adverse effects | Lung Neoplasms - etiology | Occupational Exposure - adverse effects | Humans | Occupational Diseases - etiology | Risk Factors | Asbestos - adverse effects | Lung Neoplasms - diagnosis | Occupational Diseases - diagnosis
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Photochemistry and Photobiology, ISSN 0031-8655, 11/2018, Volume 94, Issue 6, pp. 1297 - 1307
Solar ultraviolet radiation is the primary risk factor for skin cancers and sun‐related eye disorders. Estimates of individual ambient ultraviolet irradiance...
UNITED-STATES | BREAST-CANCER | MELANOMA | BIOPHYSICS | RESIDENTIAL-MOBILITY | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | BASAL-CELL CARCINOMA | RISK | RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGISTS COHORT | IONIZING-RADIATION | SKIN-CANCER | Comparative analysis | Ultraviolet radiation | Methods | Radiation effects | U.V. radiation | Correlation coefficients | Measuring instruments | Health risks | Variations | Exposure | Irradiance | Risk analysis | Occupational exposure | Epidemiology | Estimates | Risk factors | Eye disorders | Skin | Technologists | Children | Solar radiation | Age
UNITED-STATES | BREAST-CANCER | MELANOMA | BIOPHYSICS | RESIDENTIAL-MOBILITY | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | BASAL-CELL CARCINOMA | RISK | RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGISTS COHORT | IONIZING-RADIATION | SKIN-CANCER | Comparative analysis | Ultraviolet radiation | Methods | Radiation effects | U.V. radiation | Correlation coefficients | Measuring instruments | Health risks | Variations | Exposure | Irradiance | Risk analysis | Occupational exposure | Epidemiology | Estimates | Risk factors | Eye disorders | Skin | Technologists | Children | Solar radiation | Age
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Science of the Total Environment, ISSN 0048-9697, 03/2014, Volume 473-474, pp. 537 - 548
Personal exposures of 65 primary school children to benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, xylenes (BTEX), nitrogen dioxide (NO ) and ozone (O ) were measured during...
NO2 | Ozone | BTEX | Indoor pollutants | Personal exposure | Risk assessment | INDOOR AIR-QUALITY | OUTDOOR | URBAN | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | COMPOUNDS VOCS | POLLUTION | RESIDENTIAL INDOOR | HEALTH | PARTICULATE MATTER | VOLATILE ORGANIC-COMPOUNDS | NITROGEN-DIOXIDE | Air Pollution, Indoor - analysis | Toluene - analysis | Air Pollutants - analysis | Air Pollution - statistics & numerical data | Environmental Monitoring | Risk Assessment | Humans | Male | Ozone - analysis | Environmental Exposure - analysis | Nitrogen Dioxide - analysis | Turkey | Students | Female | Cities | Environmental Exposure - statistics & numerical data | Air Pollution, Indoor - statistics & numerical data | Benzene - analysis | Child | Schools | Xylenes - analysis
NO2 | Ozone | BTEX | Indoor pollutants | Personal exposure | Risk assessment | INDOOR AIR-QUALITY | OUTDOOR | URBAN | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | COMPOUNDS VOCS | POLLUTION | RESIDENTIAL INDOOR | HEALTH | PARTICULATE MATTER | VOLATILE ORGANIC-COMPOUNDS | NITROGEN-DIOXIDE | Air Pollution, Indoor - analysis | Toluene - analysis | Air Pollutants - analysis | Air Pollution - statistics & numerical data | Environmental Monitoring | Risk Assessment | Humans | Male | Ozone - analysis | Environmental Exposure - analysis | Nitrogen Dioxide - analysis | Turkey | Students | Female | Cities | Environmental Exposure - statistics & numerical data | Air Pollution, Indoor - statistics & numerical data | Benzene - analysis | Child | Schools | Xylenes - analysis
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American Sociological Review, ISSN 0003-1224, 10/2011, Volume 76, Issue 5, pp. 713 - 736
Theory suggests that neighborhood effects depend not only on where individuals live today, but also on where they lived in the past. Previous research,...
Observational research | Neighborhoods | Poverty | Childhood | Neighborhood conditions | Black people | Children | Regression analysis | Neighborhood schools | Graduations | marginal structural models | education | inverse probability of treatment weighting | neighborhoods | causality | RESIDENTIAL-MOBILITY | DETERMINANTS | CAUSAL INFERENCE | INEQUALITY | OPPORTUNITY EXPERIMENT | POOR NEIGHBORHOODS | RACE | URBAN POVERTY | OUTCOMES | SOCIOLOGY | Measurement | Correlation | Graduation | Structural Equation Models | Disadvantaged | Time Perspective | Income | Probability | High School Students | African American Children | Program Effectiveness | High school graduates | Influence | Education, Secondary | Research | Socially handicapped | Neighborhood | Context | Black youth | Inference | Residence | Length of residency | Economic models | Environmental health | Statistical methods | Sound duration (Phonetics) | Estimates | Educational attainment | Children & youth | Studies | Treatment methods
Observational research | Neighborhoods | Poverty | Childhood | Neighborhood conditions | Black people | Children | Regression analysis | Neighborhood schools | Graduations | marginal structural models | education | inverse probability of treatment weighting | neighborhoods | causality | RESIDENTIAL-MOBILITY | DETERMINANTS | CAUSAL INFERENCE | INEQUALITY | OPPORTUNITY EXPERIMENT | POOR NEIGHBORHOODS | RACE | URBAN POVERTY | OUTCOMES | SOCIOLOGY | Measurement | Correlation | Graduation | Structural Equation Models | Disadvantaged | Time Perspective | Income | Probability | High School Students | African American Children | Program Effectiveness | High school graduates | Influence | Education, Secondary | Research | Socially handicapped | Neighborhood | Context | Black youth | Inference | Residence | Length of residency | Economic models | Environmental health | Statistical methods | Sound duration (Phonetics) | Estimates | Educational attainment | Children & youth | Studies | Treatment methods
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Epidemiology, ISSN 1044-3983, 09/2019, Volume 30, Issue 5, pp. 713 - 722
BACKGROUND:Community violence is an understudied aspect of social context that may affect risk of preterm birth and small-for-gestational age (SGA). METHODS:We...
UNITED-STATES | RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION | Violence | Premature birth | CAUSAL INFERENCE | DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | PRETERM BIRTH | California | RACIAL DISPARITIES | FETAL ORIGINS | GESTATIONAL WEIGHT-GAIN | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | Homicide | PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS | NEIGHBORHOOD | Small for gestational age | Pregnancy | Pregnant women | Social aspects | Health aspects | Risk factors
UNITED-STATES | RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION | Violence | Premature birth | CAUSAL INFERENCE | DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | PRETERM BIRTH | California | RACIAL DISPARITIES | FETAL ORIGINS | GESTATIONAL WEIGHT-GAIN | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | Homicide | PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS | NEIGHBORHOOD | Small for gestational age | Pregnancy | Pregnant women | Social aspects | Health aspects | Risk factors
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