Beyond The Bangkok Statement: research needs to address environmental threats to children's health.

Implementation strategies to address community health needs.

Environmental threats to children's health: a challenge for pediatrics: 2000 Ambulatory Pediatric Association (APA) Presidential Address.

Public health accomplishments have dramatically improved children’s lives. Sanitation programs, vaccines, better nutrition, surveillance and monitoring of disease, and the development of antibiotics have led to extraordinary reductions in infant and child mortality.1 Ambulatory pediatricians have contributed, through research, teaching, and advocacy, and especially through the delivery of impro...

Environmental threats to the health of children: the Asian perspective.

989 Environmental Threats to the Health of Children: The Asian Perspective David O. Carpenter,1 Fook Tim Chew,2 Terri Damstra,3 Le Hung Lam,4 Philip J. Landrigan,5 Irma Makalinao,6 Genandrialine L. Peralta,7 and William A. Suk 8 1School of Public Health, University at Albany, Rensselaer, New York, USA; 2Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, ...

Thinking big: four ways to advance environmental health research to answer the needs of public policy.

Background: Epigenetic silencing of the RAS association domain family 1A (RASSF1A) tumor suppressor gene promoter has been demonstrated in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) as a result of promoter hypermethylation. Contradictory results have been reported for RASSF1A methylation in normal kidney, thus it is not clear whether a significant difference between RASSF1A methylation in normal and tumor cell...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...