Sex, age and sun exposure linked to frequency of sunburns
... P.M. Overall, adolescents, "sun worshippers," and indoor workers had more sunburns than children, golfers, and gardeners. Despite applying sunscreen on more days, female participants had a median of one sunburn, more than male participants, due to more days with sun risk behavior. Number of sunburns peaked...Those at high-risk for skin cancer burnt by own behaviour
...risk exhibited similar sunbathing patterns, use of indoor tanning beds and frequency of sunscreen and protective clothing use. Incredibly, the high-risk group even used, on average, a lower factor sunscreen (11 SPF for the high-risk group, compared to 18 SPF overall). Sun-awareness campaigns increase public...New partnership launched to accelerate and evaluate national malaria control program in Africa
...strategies-including insecticide-treated bed nets, indoor mosquito control, and effective medication-to reach 80 percent of Zambia's population and to cut deaths due to malaria by 75 percent within three years. The initiative, supported by a new, nine-year US$35 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates F...Day care settings are a significant source of indoor allergens
...ound the facilities to be a significant source for indoor allergen levels. A new study of 89 day care settin...pend 37 hours per week in child care. Exposure to indoor allergens has been shown in previous studies to increase the likelihood of developing asthma or alle......h building ventilation codes and maintain specific indoor humidity levels for hospitals, theaters, hotels an...old and mildew that can cause long-term health and indoor air quality issues. SensArray Integrated Wafer, developed by Robert Lauf, Don Bible and Carl Sohns o...Household dust is main source of flame retardants in humans
...ways, including food, soil, dust and inhalation of indoor and outdoor air. Using a combination of measured concentrations and computer modeling, she and her coworkers estimated the emissions and fate of PBDEs in the Toronto area. Toddlers tend to have high levels of PBDEs, which is most likely because they ...New study: Many local health directors unsure of authority to curtail smoking
...ibited." While smoking was forbidden in almost all indoor environments, it was allowed in more than 20 per cent of local health department vehicles, at more than 57 percent of departmental social events, at more than 74 percent of outdoor walkways and loading docks and more than 78 percent of entrances and ...New study on childhood asthma shows home-based interventions are cost-effective
...ch child had to be allergic to at least one common indoor allergen, such as cockroach or house dust mite allergen....Smoking ban is protecting bar workers in Ireland
...duced a comprehensive smoke-free law, covering all indoor workplaces, including bars and restaurants. The law was not introduced in neighbouring Northern Ireland, creating a natural experiment for identifying effects of the new law. In the BMJ study, researchers surveyed 329 staff working in rural and urban...Even very low levels of environmental toxins can damage health
...(found in drinking water), ionizing radiation from indoor radon gas, and tobacco smoke--can cause serious damage to health even at very low levels, say researchers in the international medical journal PLoS Medicine. What this means, say the researchers Donald Wigle of the University of Ottawa and Bruce Lan...Malaria risk it's not all in the genes
... we already have to hand such as bednets, residual indoor spraying [with insecticide], and cleaning up back yards for mosquito breeding sites."...Study: N.C. parents want tobacco use prevention to become higher priority
...rogram. "Almost 85 percent also favored making all indoor recreational areas and fast-food restaurants tobacco free." The new research was based on data from the N.C. State Center for Health Statistics, which monitors residents' healthy and unhealthy behaviors statewide. Specifically, the information came f...Complete smoking ban leads to marked rise in smoking cessation efforts
...has increased, following a total ban on smoking in indoor public places in New Zealand, according to a letter in this week's BMJ. Nick Wilson, a senior lecturer in public health in New Zealand, writes that the complete ban in his country since December 2004 has been well accepted by the public, and smoking ...Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development tipsheet
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...smoking, alcohol, unsafe sex, urban air pollution, indoor smoke from household use of coal, and contaminated injections in health-care settings accounted for over a third of cancer deaths worldwide. Smoking, alcohol use, and low fruit and vegetable intake were the leading risk factors for death from cancer ...Fish oil prevents potentially deadly decline in heart rate variability
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...alth risk factors such as tobacco and alcohol use, indoor air pollution, fertility preferences for male children, immunization, and migration. But Jha and colleagues have even bigger ambitions: they are testing the feasibility of collecting physical measurements, such as blood pressure and obesity, and bloo...Hispanic asthma rates highest among Puerto Ricans
...ntal tobacco smoke along with a reduction in other indoor allergens would have a significant positive impact on asthma rates in poor Hispanics....UK plans to cut street prostitution will threaten sex workers' health
...lementing the new approaches, especially regarding indoor sex work, leaves most of the sex workers we have spoken to feeling uneasy that they will have to wait and see how the strategy affects their access to health care and their contact with the criminal justice system," conclude the authors. Disappointme...... filtration was primarily, "To negate the need for indoor smoking bans around the world " BAT targeted the hospitality industry by pushing a so-called "smoker resocialisation" initiative, which aimed to portray smoking in a "more positive and stylish context" and to lobby against smoke-free public places. I...