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Childhood lead poisoning prevention: A program plan for Galveston County
Childhood lead poisoning continues to cause permanent brain damage and other serious sequelae throughout the United States. Although the prevalence is decreasing nationwide, Galveston County lags considerably behind most sections of the country. In 2003, the United States prevalence of lead …
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Lead poisoning: with special reference to renal and vascular symptoms
With the exception of iron, lead plays a more important part in the lives of the civilised nations of to-day than any other metal. Among metallic poisons lead is facile princepe. These two facts raise the subject of lead poisoning to a position of the first importance, not only from the point of …
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The Massachusetts lead poisoning prevention law : the environmental equity paradoxes
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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The Effects of a Maternal Childhood Lead-Poisoning Education Program on Knowledge, Health Beliefs, and Compliance
… prevention behavior as they relate to childhood lead poisoning. The two educational methods being used in the study are personal instruction by the investigator and a 12-minute video developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics on childhood lead poisoning. Information contained in both …
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Evaluating the Efficacy of a Childhood Lead Poisoning Risk Model as an Accurate Predictor of Lead Exposure
<p>Lead poisoning is a significant public health problem with paint from old housing exposing thousands of children and leading to negative health and social outcomes. Identifying the highest risk children exposed to lead is important to public health agencies. The purpose of this study was to …
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Knowledge assessment of lead poisoning precautionary measures among women of child-bearing age in high lead exposure residential areas in Kabwe District
Lead poisoning contributes 0.9 per cent of developing countries’ disease burden. Lead poisoning is due to excessive lead exposure to the human body. In Zambia, Kabwe is one of the most affected towns due to its previous mining activities. Studies done by ZCCM-IH and others show that currently, 35 …
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Knowledge assessment of lead poisoning precautionary measures among women of child-bearing age in high lead exposure residential areas in Kabwe District
Lead poisoning contributes 0.9 per cent of developing countries’ disease burden. Lead poisoning is due to excessive lead exposure to the human body. In Zambia, Kabwe is one of the most affected towns due to its previous mining activities. Studies done by ZCCM-IH and others show that currently, 35 …
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Investigation of the Distribution of Lead (Pb) in Soil in Rochester, NY: Correlation with Children’s Blood Lead Levels
Despite the outlawing of both leaded paints and gasoline decades ago, lead poisoning remains a severe health issue, particularly for children aged 5 and under due to their hand-to-mouth tendencies and underdeveloped gastrointestinal tracts. Lead from paint typically only presents itself as an issue …
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Addressing and Assessing Lead Threats in Drinking Water: Non-Leaded Brass, Product Testing, Particulate Lead Occurrence and Effects of the Chloride to Sulfate Mass Ratio on Corrosion
… over adverse health effects from low level lead exposure motivated reassessment of lead occurrence in drinking water, from the perspective of 1) possibly eliminating lead from new brass materials, and 2) performance testing of existing products. During the course of this thesis work, it was …
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Complex Formation of Pb(II) with Cysteine, Penicillamine and N-acetylcysteine
The mechanism of lead poisoning and interest in metal toxicity has been a growing area of study since the late 1950s. In order to gain insight on how toxic metals behave physiologically, simple molecules can first be used to model the environments. Complex formation between Pb(II) and …
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Concentration of lead in imported plastic toys, safety to children and associated factors in Lusaka city, Zambia
Lead poisoning has been a constant public health concern because children absorb more lead compared to adults. The resulting health effects are irreversible and include decreased cognitive functions development and death. Lead exposure to children is in various ways and one of the ways is use of …
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Concentration of lead in imported plastic toys, safety to children and associated factors in Lusaka city, Zambia
Lead poisoning has been a constant public health concern because children absorb more lead compared to adults. The resulting health effects are irreversible and include decreased cognitive functions development and death. Lead exposure to children is in various ways and one of the ways is use of …
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A Needs Assessment For Annual Physical Examination For Selected Richmond Public School Children
… teen pregnancy, asthma hospitalization, and lead poisoning cases that affect the well-being of a child and are associated with the presence of these risk factors in a population. Objectives: The objectives of this study is to (1) compare the presence of risk factors and health indicators in …
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Sweeping Exposures: Lead Poisonings and Black Working Poor Populations in the United States
… through the idea and mechanism of <em>lead exposure</em>, by recognizing how specific exposure to the element <em>lead</em> and its by-products is both a symbol and a material cause of black urban poor illness and disability. There is no mistake that people living in the U.S. are aware …
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The Economic and health consequences of lead paint abatement regulations
… on the economic and health consequences of lead paint abatement regulations. The first chapter studies the effect of state-level lead paint abatement regulations on housing markets, focusing on house prices, rents and the allocation of households across houses with different health risks. …
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The Effect of Lead Acetate on the Susceptibility of C3HeB/FeJ Mice Infected with the Parasite Trypanosoma Cruzi
<p>Lead has been mined by man for centuries with evidence of its use dating back 6000 years. Chronic exposure to lead can result in encephalopathy, anemia, and nephropathy. Today, cases of lead poisoning are uncommon; however, lead continues to be incorporated into the body through subclinical …
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Assessment of a voluntary nonlead ammunition outreach program on midwestern national wildlife refuges
Lead exposure from spent hunting ammunition affects wildlife populations, human health, and poses challenges to natural resource management. In addition to existing data on this topic spanning >100-years, data from the Upper Midwestern, United States (U.S.) demonstrated bald eagles have greater …
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