AIMS AND METHOD The Human Rights Act was incorporated into UK law in 2000, but little is known about how it is implemented in psychiatric care.We explored the understanding of multidisciplinary teams of the restriction and protection of patients’ human rights using an open-response questionnaire. Content analysis was employed to summarise written, narrative data about the human rights of 102 pa...

Nanotechnology promises to improve the quality of human life, but it has also provoked concerns about potential adverse health effects on workers, the environment and consumers. Effective risk assessment and risk management of nanotechnology requires: 1) knowing how engineered nanoscale particles (NPs) can gain entry into the human body (routes of exposure); 2) knowing whether engineered NPs ca...

AIMS AND METHOD The Human Rights Act was incorporated into UK law in 2000, but little is known about how it is implemented in psychiatric care.We explored the understanding of multidisciplinary teams of the restriction and protection of patients’ human rights using an open-response questionnaire. Content analysis was employed to summarise written, narrative data about the human rights of 102 pa...

The toxic chemical and heavy metals within wastewater can cause serious adverse impacts on human health. Health risk assessment (HRA) is an effective tool for supporting decision-making and corrective actions in water quality management. HRA can also help people understand the water quality and quantify the adverse effects of pollutants on human health. Due to the imprecision of data, measureme...