This article reviews the impact of biomedical waste on water, soil, air quality, the environment, and human health. Hospitals and nursing homes generate increasing amount of biomedical waste in an unscientific manner. As such, poor waste management practices by these institutions cause exposure to ...
Cadmium (Cd) is one of the common toxic heavy metals (HMs), having harmful effects on the environment and potential health hazards allied with food chain contamination due to higher mobility, easy integration capacity in ion channels, and prolonged persistence. At present, Cd toxicity has become...
The McKinsey Health Institute is a non-profit-generating entity within the firm dedicated to advancing human health worldwide. One of MHI's focus areas is brain health, a term inclusive of positive mental health and the full range of mental, substance use, and neurological conditions. We help...
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Because of the growing demand for food in recent decades, food safety has become a major public health concern in terms of human health. This scenario serves to motivate researchers and scientists to do study on the health risks linked with the ingestion of heavy metals, pesticides, and toxin...
The potential adverse effects on human health of hazardous waste incinerators (HWIs) are a subject of concern. The construction of the first and till now o... DFG Schuhmacher - 《Chemosphere》 被引量: 17发表: 2009年 Waste management and public health: The state of the evidence 1.1 Backgrou...
In this work, we have reviewed the toxicity of several heavy metals (mercury, lead, cadmium, chromium, nickel), their impact on the environment and human health, and the synthesis and characterization methods of conducting organic polymers (COPs) utilized for the removal of heavy metals from ...
In industrial areas, increased human activities generate high emissions of metals that contaminate the environment, and eventually affect human health. The
The impact of municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) on the environment and on human health was assessed by a life cycle assessment (LCA) approach. Even if risk assessment and epidemiologic analyses are specifically indicated for the investigation of the health outcomes, they resulted costly, tim...
We identified 36 waste mobile phones (WMPs) manufactured between 2002 and 2013, assessed their metals concentration, leachability, and potential impact on environment and human health using digestion, Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP), and USEtox model, respectively. The results highlight...