Browsing by FAS Department "Environmental Health"
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The Effect of Head Injury on Neurologic and Cognitive Health Throughout the Life Course
(2015-05-01)Recent studies touting the potential long term negative effects of traumatic brain injuries have pushed these injuries in the forefront of public health concern. There is particular concern of whether or not there is a ... -
Fine Particulate Exposure and Cardiac Autonomic Effects in Boilermakers
(2015-04-27)Background: Heart Rate Variability (HRV) as a research outcome has the potential for misclassification due to its inability to account for changes in the heart rate. HRV can be parsed into Acceleration Capacity (AC) and ... -
Improving Health and Safety in Construction: The Intersection of Programs and Policies, Work Organization, and Safety Climate
(2015-04-23)Statement of Problem: Despite significant advancements in occupational health and safety in recent decades, injury rates in commercial construction remain high. New programs that address the complexity of the construction ... -
Innate Immunity Immunomodulators in Post-Influenza Bacterial Pneumonia
(2015-05-01)Post-influenza bacterial pneumonia is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. One mechanism for enhanced susceptibility to bacterial infection after influenza is down-regulation of a major phagocytic receptor ... -
Linking the Exposure to Engineered Nanoparticles Released From Nano-Enabled Products to Toxicology: a Case Study of Laser Printers
(2015-04-27)A research gap in the fields of exposure assessment and toxicology that remains unaddressed is the assimilation of experimental conditions to those of the real world human exposure. Currently, there is a lack of understanding ... -
Poverty, Energy Use, Air Pollution and Health in Ghana: A Spatial Analysis
(2015-05-01)Some of the major themes that characterize the relationship between the environment and population health in the developing world today include poverty, household access to clean cooking fuel, air pollution, sanitation, ... -
Prenatal Metals Exposure and Child Birth and Growth in Bangladesh
(2015-04-24)The objective of this dissertation is to contribute to ongoing research on prenatal metals exposure, in terms of arsenic, lead, and manganese, and infant health and growth, and to deepen the understanding of the complexity ...