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Environmental Health: Air Quality
(2016-09-26)
Importance of Air Quality
•2-3% of all deaths in the U.S. each year are attributed to air pollution-induced respiratory or cardiovascular disease.
•Lung cancer, respiratory disease, and heart ailments linked to poor air quality
Cadmium
(2016-08-26)
Cadmium is a soft and malleable metal which has several properties that allow it to be used in many ways. Manufacturing workers who are exposed to cadmium have higher rates of lung and prostate cancers. There is a weak ...
Malathion
(2016-09-26)
Evaluation of Different Methods to Assess the Duration of Effectiveness of Permethrin-Treated Clothing against Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes after Repeated Washing
(East Carolina University, 2017-07-05)
Mosquitoes can be vectors of pathogens that cause many diseases, such as malaria, West Nile encephalitis, dengue and Zika. Mosquito-borne diseases continue to be a global problem, affecting outdoor workers (e.g. forestry ...
Reliability and Validity of the Telephone-Based eHealth Literacy Scale Among Older Adults: Cross-Sectional Survey
(2017)
Background: Only a handful of studies have examined reliability and validity evidence of scores produced by the 8-item eHealth literacy Scale (eHEALS) among older adults. Older adults are generally more comfortable responding ...
Covariates of Identified Stress and Depression among Seasonal Farmworkers
(2017)
Many noted difficulties of farmworker life result in increased risk for stress and depression. To date, limited research has focused primarily on seasonal farmworkers; much of the prior research examines migrant farmworkers ...
Emergency Mosquito Control on a Selected Area in Eastern North Carolina After Hurricane Irene
(2014)
Natural disasters such as hurricanes may contribute to mosquito abundance and, consequently, arbovirus transmission risk. In 2011, flooding from Hurricane Irene in eastern North Carolina (NC) resulted in increased mosquito ...