This report summarizes the latest scientific knowledge on the links between exposure to air pollution and adverse health effects in children. It is intended to inform and motivate individual and collective action by ...ht medbox">health care professionals to prevent damage to children’s health from exposure to air pollution. Air pollution is a major environmental health threat. Exposure to fine particles in both the ambient environment and in the household causes about seven million premature deaths each year. Ambient air pollution (AAP) alone imposes enormous costs on the global economy, amounting to more than US$ 5 trillion in total welfare losses in 2013.
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BMJ 2019;365:l1807 doi: 10.1136/bmj.l1807 (Published 8 May 2019)
PLoS Medicine Vol. 6 no. 10 (2009) e1000165
PLoS ONE 12(7): e0180996. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180996
Mental Health Policy and Service Guidance Package
Languages: Arabic, English, French, Chinese, Russian
Qualitative study from Zambia on barriers to and facilitators of life-long learning
Lancet Psychiatry 2016;3: 415–24
DHS Further Analysis Reports No 102
Based on the Vulnerability Index developed in this review, an estimated 22.7 million persons in Myanmar, or 44% of the population, were found to have some form of vulnerability related to human deve...lopment and/or exposure to active conflict/violence. These people experience varying combinations of poor housing, lack of education, poor educational attainment, lack of access to safe sanitation and improved drinking water, and direct exposure to conflict.
Shan and Ayeyarwady have the largest populations of vulnerable persons, a function of both their size and relative vulnerability in comparison to other States and Regions. Yangon and Shan show the widest variation in vulnerability across townships (in terms of the number of vulnerable persons and their level of vulnerability), followed by Mandalay, Chin and Rakhine.
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The study was designed to understand the attitudes of parents of children with intellectual disabilities, with regard to the management of problema...tic behaviour of their children, and to identify whether the mothers or the fathers had more positive attitudes.
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