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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"poisonings"”.
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Sweeping Exposures: Lead Poisonings and Black Working Poor Populations in the United States
<p>The focus of my thesis is to explore some of the realities that the impoverished urban black poor populations face in America today. The goal of my thesis is to illustrate how poverty is reproduced within impoverished neighborhoods through the idea and mechanism of <em>lead exposure</em>, by …
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Evaluating a South African mobile application for healthcare professionals to improve diagnosis and notification of pesticide poisonings
… when diagnosing and notifying pesticide-related poisonings. With a recent increase in mobile application technology, this gives a convenient platform to provide training support for HCPs in their clinical practice. An example is the integration of a South African pesticide notification guideline …
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Etiological Characterization of Emergency Department Acute Poisoning
… to conduct a review of emergency department (ED) poisonings to characterize its demographics and assess associated co-morbidities. The second objective is to explore correlation between personal history of diseases and poisonings. Predictors for poisonings and its outcomes were investigated and …
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Use of Event Studies to Estimate Brand Value: A Comparison of Methodologies
… study to estimate the impact of the 1982 Tylenol poisonings on Johnson & Johnson's share returns. Mark Mitchell was able to demonstrate that (1) Johnson & Johnson share returns were significantly impacted by the poisonings, and (2) such an impact translated, at least in part, to a depreciation of …
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Investigating pesticide-related deaths admitted to Salt River mortuary in Cape Town, South Africa: a retrospective, descriptive analysis
Pesticide-related poisonings place a burden on the public health system in low- and middleincome countries. Notification of pesticide poisonings and deaths is a legal requirement in South Africa, however, our understanding of the prevalence and type of pesticides involved in poisoning cases remains …
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Ταχεία ανίχνευση της εντεροτοξίνης του C. perfringens τύπου Α με την ανοσοενζυμική μέθοδο ELISA, σε κόπρανα ασθενών με συμπτώματα τροφικής δηλητηρίασης
… A is one of the most common agents for the food poisonings in human, worldwide. Its enterotoxin produced during the sporulation is particularly considered to be responsible for the development of the food poisoning, symptoms. The detection of its enterotoxin in feces of patients with diarrhoea is …
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Intoxicação medicamentosa: aspectos relevantes da casuística de motivações suicidas.
… lives. Amongst the profile of the medicaments poisonings observed in the Paraíba in the year of 2012 the feminine sort had a bigger predominance in notifications (62.4%) and the place of the notified exposition more was of urban zone (70%) approximately. The frequency of the poisonings occurred …
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Communicating the risks and hazards of methylmercury to the Ojibwe population
Fatal poisonings due to the consumption of fish containing high concentrations of methylmercury have been well documented, and demonstrate that the consumption of mercury-contaminated fish and other organisms can contribute to adverse human health effects. Native Americans of the Great Lakes region …
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The destruction of the cyanobacterial toxin microcystin-LR by semiconductor photocatalysis.
… liver. There have been several reports of human poisonings resulting from the presence of cyanotoxins in potable waters, some of which have resulted in fatalities. The most frequently cited cyanotoxin in these poisonings has been microcystin-LR, which has prompted the World Health Organisation …
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Some Deontological Considerations Related to Features of Communication with Patients with Acute Intoxication // Някои деонтологични проблеми, свързани с особеностите на комуникацията с пациенти с остри отравяния
… topic because of the large number of acute poisonings. The aim of the dissertation is to examine the deontological considerations resulting from the specific characteristics of the communication between a doctor and a patient with an acute intoxication. The main problems are in the area of …
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The health hazards of chemical use in agriculture
… Such effects may range from overt and acute poisonings to gradual-onset chronic morbidity. In South Africa, data on such morbidity are sparse, and subject to much underreporting as one of the included papers illustrates. The dearth of such data has much to do with the marginalised living and …
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A percepção dos estudantes de uma escola da rede pública na cidade de João Pessoa - PB em relação à atenção farmacêutica e o uso racional de medicamentos.
… of the drug key to decrease number of poisonings by drugs , dosage errors, a better guarantee of pharmacotherapy for the patient and also contribute to the rational use of medication thus preventing microbial resistance, among others, and also the waste of the same population. Within …
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An Exploratory Mixed Methods Investigation of Surplus Medications in the Homes of Psychiatric Outpatients
… associated with illicit drug abuse, deaths, and poisonings. Individuals with mental illnesses have increased risks associated with these surplus medication-related problems. Limited research has been conducted into the extent of accumulations of surplus medications in individual households and no …
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Changes in nesting numbers and breeding success of African White-backed Vultures in northern Botswana
… there have been multiple incidents of mass poisonings, which have resulted in the deaths of thousands of White-backed Vultures. I therefore expected that nesting numbers of this species may have declined in this region, with potential additional negative impacts to breeding success. I used …
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The Impact of Neighbourhood-Level Marginalization on risk of Opioid Overdose and Opioid Use Disorder
… by a dramatic increase in opioid-related poisonings, deaths, and dependency over the course of several years. Neighbourhood-level marginalization, defined as the degree to which individuals living within a neighbourhood are peripheralized and isolated from society, has been proposed as a …
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Establishing genetic and physiological baselines for the black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus).
… historical range due to habitat loss, plague, poisonings, and shootings. Many populations now occur as isolated genetic relicts. A multiple locus genetic profile was obtained using microsatellite analyses of six polymorphic nucleotide repeats from 319 black-tailed prairie dogs collected from 16 …
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The role of organophosphate exposure in the aetiology of depression and suicidality amoungst farm workers on wine and table grape farms in the Worcester area of the Western Cape Province, South Africa
… of a significant number of acute and chronic poisonings amongst rural farm workers and residents in South Africa. While it is evident that the workers involved with the mixing and application of these agrichemical substances are at the greatest risk of exposure, others who are involved with …
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The Canadian Child Safety Report Card - A Comparison of Injury Prevention Practices Across Provinces
… on external causes of injury such as falls, poisonings, burns, suffocation, and drowning. Chapter three focuses on transport-related injuries including occupants, cyclists, and pedestrians. Population based morbidity and mortality rates per 100,000 were calculated for children/youth 0-19 …
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Establishment of a comprehensive surveillance system for acute pesticide poisoning in Tanzania
… unreported, particularly from occupational poisonings, and proposes an APP surveillance system for Tanzania aimed at addressing both workplace and non-workplace settings. The system is expected to identify poisoning outbreaks, circumstances and outcomes, agents, poisoning patterns by gender, …
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Analysis of Community-Based Accumulation of Home Medications (CACHES) Found at Death Scenes in Davidson County, Tennessee
… medications by friends and family, b) pediatric poisonings, c) adverse drug events, d) increased criminal justice system costs related to prescription drug abuse, e) increased health care costs, and f) pollution of local water supplies via improper medication disposal. This study explores the …
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