Guest Editorial: Environment and Disease: Ever-growing Concern

Guest Editorial: Autism and the Environment

Speculation that the environment plays a role in the development of autism primarily comes from two observations: a) although concordance among monozygotic twins is high, it is not perfect, and a specific " autism gene " or set of genes has not yet been identified; and b) the prevalence of autism is higher than previously thought—if it is rising, the rise might be associated with a shift in the...

Guest Editorial: Sport and the Environment

VOLUME 114 | NUMBER 5 | May 2006 • Environmental Health Perspectives Pick up any newspaper or magazine these days and there will most likely be a prominent story about the environment and its relation to human health, well-being, or economic security. It seems that environmental sensitivity is moving from the fringe to center stage. No better confirmation can be found for this than the adoption...

Guest Editorial: Health, Equity, and the Built Environment

of Silent Spring in 1962. In her classic book, Rachel Carson warned of the effects of pesticides on wildlife ecology, invoking a nightmarish die-off of songbirds in the book’s title. However, she also warned of human health effects, both acute and chronic, from liver damage to neurotoxicity to cancer (Carson 1962). In the ensuing decades, environmental health essentially became synonymous with ...

Editorial: ever say die?

the elderly population in iran: an ever growing concern in the health system

“older people are an enormous asset to our societies, not only because a large majority of them continue to work in old age, but also because they convey social values to younger generations” dr. wesum asia/pacific regional conference on ageing 2012 the population ages 65 and over is expected to grow very rapidly in all parts of the world. over the next decades, the elderly population is projec...