There are several hundred PAHs‚ which usually occur as complex mixtures rather than as individual compounds. Benzo (a) pyrene is the most widely studied‚ being one of the most potent‚ hence most of the data in this document refers to B(a)P‚ although it seldom occurs in the environment on its own. For the general public‚ the main route of exposure to PAHs is from inhalation of ambient and indoor air or ingestion of food. Inhalation and skin absorption are the main routes of occupational exposure.
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scored clock-drawing test (CDT). The latter serves as an “informative distractor‚” helping to clarify scores when the memory recall score is intermediate. The Mini-Cog was as effective as or better than established screening tests in both an epidemiologic survey in a mainstream sample and a multi-ethnic‚ multilingual population comprising many individuals of low socioeconomic status and education level. In comparative tests‚ the Mini-Cog was at least twice as fast as the Mini-Mental State Examination
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Dr. Paul Farmer shares with us his experiences with the violation of human rights in his latest book Pathologies of Power: Health‚ Human Rights‚ and the New war on the Poor. This book was centered around a well noted critique of the liberal views on human rights‚ which has rarely served interest. The first half of this book is called Bearing witness. He used this title to describe the first half of the book because it was based solely of on personal experiences. He stated‚ “They are partial accounts
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I.)Introduction A.)Thesis Statement The colored rooms symbol the stage of life. However‚ the way the Red Death is described is a symbol of Tuberculosis. The clock symbolizes the time we have in life. B.)examples 1.)The first colored room is blue that symbols infancy. 2.)The clock symbols the time when have in life. 3.)Tuberculosis is a disease in which blood fills your lungs up‚ and Poe said “blood is its avatar.” Which the Red Death looks like a symbol of this disease.
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cholera and tuberculosis spread rapidly mainly due to a lack of hygiene and their lack of knowledge about the diseases and how to cure them. As cities became more and more crowded‚ the diseases spread throughout the rising population. There were many diseases amongst the British (particularly lower classes but also some of the upper class) between 1760 and 1870‚ due to their poor living conditions and poor hygiene. These diseases included Typhus‚ Influenza‚ Pneumonia and Tuberculosis. One particularly
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the public awareness of heart diseases (Brown‚ 2004). This can be done by introducing the epidemiological data‚ which includes the morbidity‚ mortality‚ disability relative to heart diseases on the first page of the book or website. The use of epidemiologic data on the first page/home page will help to keep the community informed about the current affairs concerning the disease as well as the devastating future of the disease if adequate measures are not taken (Issel‚ 2009). This can facilitate quickening
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PREVALENCE AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS FOR HIV AND TUBERCULOSIS CO INFECTION‚ DESSIE REFERRAL HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER‚ Getachew G/mariam‚ MSc‚ college of Dessie health sciences‚ Dessie‚ Fikre Enqusilasie ‚ PhD‚ school of public heath‚ Addis Ababa University‚ Addis Ababa‚ Ethiopia. Abstract Background: tuberculosis is the most serious opportunistic infection for people infected with HIV in developing countries. A majority of co infected cases are in sub Saharan Africa‚ where up
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Measles: is an infection of the respiratory system caused by a virus‚ Symptoms: include fever‚ cough‚ runny nose‚ red eyes and a rash. Measles: is spread through respiration‚ the contact with any infected person in any way‚ including sex‚ saliva‚ or mucus‚ can cause infection making it highly contagious. It lasts from two to four days prior‚ until two to five days following the onset of the rash. Signs: and symptoms of measles include four-day fevers and the three Cs — cough‚ coryza (head cold)
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Air Pollution 20.000 liters of air is what we breathe on a daily basis. Air is something most people take for granted‚ you don’t see it around you and breathing goes automatically. But every time we inhale we risk inhaling dangerous chemicals which found their way in our air. Air pollution is the presence of dangerous chemicals in the air that we breathe. It is a change in the air which influences humans health and organism on the planet. Many think that `gases’’ pollute the air‚ those gases
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how industrialization caused tuberculosis casualty rates to rise exponentially. During this time period‚ people were piled into unsanitary factories to work in inhospitable environments and were housed in slums that lacked proper hygiene. This contributed to the spread of tuberculosis. Because of its ease of transmission due to poverty‚ working environments due to rapid industrialization‚ and lack of knowledge‚ tuberculosis induced casualties increased. Tuberculosis wasn’t the only illness to be
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