Main description:

Environmental Health Risk VII contains contributions presented at the Seventh International Conference on the Impact of Environmental Factors on Health. The successful biennial series began in 1997 and covers health problems related to the environment, which are causing increasing concern all over the world. Important to the public health is Society's ability to ensure good quality air, water, soil, and food and to eliminate or considerably reduce hazards from the human environment. That ability greatly depends on the development of techniques, both modelling and interpretive, that allow decision-makers to assess the risk posed by various factors and to propose improvements. The book covers such topics as: Risk Prevention and Monitoring; Occupational Health; Air Pollution; Social, Economic and Planning Issues; Food Safety; Environmental Education and Risk Abatement; Waste and Wastewater Issues.

Contents:

Contents Section 1: Risk prevention and monitoring Analysis of acoustic climate on board public transport; Environmental impact caused by fungal and particle contamination of Portuguese swine; The licensing of a laboratory for manipulating radionuclides in Brazil; A Walloon spatial simulation model of risks in environment and health; Effectiveness of a pesticide protective behavior program in improving and reducing neuromuscular symptoms among rice farmers in Sukhothai province, Thailand; Vibration assessing model: comparison between methods Section 2: Occupational health Musculoskeletal disorders caused by physical overload: the situation in Latvia; Micronucleus frequencies in lymphocytes and buccal cells in formaldehyde exposed workers; Development of radiation monitoring services for radiation workers in Saudi Arabia; A dynamic lighting system for workplaces deficient of daylight Section 3: Air pollution Purification capability of broccoli to gaseous ethyl alcohol using an LED lighting system; Characteristics of the particulate matter in Riyadh city, Saudi Arabia Section 4: Social, economic and planning issues Urban concept of a healthy city: case study - Tripoli, Libya; The environmental, social and ethical aspects of multinational corporations exploiting oil resources in Ecuador Section 5: Food safety Potential poultry and meat products contamination by aflatoxin B1 due to fungal presence in Portuguese poultry units; A comparison of the implementation of food hygiene standards between government and private catering establishments Section 6: Environmental education and risk abatement Place based education in the context of waste-related implications on health and welfare among Bedouin Arab communities in the Israeli Negev; Food hygiene challenges in older people: intergenerational learning as a health asset Section 7: Waste and wastewater issues A methodology for forecasting hazardous waste flows; Medical waste management in a dental clinic; Cyperus longus L. as a biological purifier of wastewater for irrigation purposes: removal efficiency and Zn, Cd, Cu, Fe and Mn