Nanotechnology has become a significant enabling technology for a wide array of industries being integrated across diverse areas such as medicine, electronics, biomaterials, and energy production. For example, nano-scaled systems have been designed and utilized for safe and effective targeted delivery of therapeutic agents, demonstrating the rapid advancements of nanotechnology in medical-treat...

BACKGROUND Around the world, cities are dealing with growing numbers of international migrants (IMs). Many migrants are likely to have encountered exceptional challenges through the migration process, with implications for their health. Nevertheless, studies conducted in several developed countries point to a pattern of better health in migrant groups--the 'healthy migrant' effect. However, lit...

Although Integrated Environmental Health Monitoring (IEHM) is considered an essential tool to better understand complex environmental health issues, there is no consensus on how to develop such a programme. We reviewed four existing frameworks and eight monitoring programmes in the area of environmental health. We identified the DPSEEA (Driving Force-Pressure-State-Exposure-Effect-Action) frame...

Even though environmental health is widely considered to be an integral component of disaster management, limited research on this topic has been conducted. Using a qualitative approach, the authors conducted in-depth interviews of practitioners in Queensland, Australia, to explore the role of environmental health in disaster management and determine how those internal and external to the profe...

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We have heard a great many points reiterated, and I've tried to figure out some ideas that might have been missed. One thing is that some of us will go back into environments where standards for environmental contaminants are set. We must try to be cautious and not forget how ignorant we are. We have heard the description of a variety of syndromes which lead to hypersusceptibility. These includ...

Will reading habit influence your life? Many say yes. Reading environmental health in urban development report of a who expert committee technical reports no 807 is a good habit; you can develop this habit to be such interesting way. Yeah, reading habit will not only make you have any favourite activity. It will be one of guidance of your life. When reading has become a habit, you will not make...