Lead Toxicity Challenges And Solution

Author : Nitish Kumar,Amrit Kumar Jha
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783031373275

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Lead Toxicity: Challenges and Solution by Nitish Kumar,Amrit Kumar Jha Pdf

This book delivers an outline to graduate, undergraduate students, and researchers, as well as academicians who are working on lead toxicity with respect to remediation. It covers sources of lead contamination and its impact on human health and on prospective remediation through multi-disciplinary approaches with application of recent advanced biological technology. Lead is among the elements that have been most extensively used by man over time. This has led to extensive pollution of surface soils on the local scale, mainly associated with mining and smelting of the metal and addition of organic lead compounds to petrol. Release of lead to the atmosphere from various high-temperature processes has led to surface contamination on the regional and even global scale. In addition, plants grown on lead-rich soils incorporate lead, and thus, the concentration of lead in crop plants may be increased. Lead enters in the food chain through consumption of plant material. A high concentration of lead has been found to be harmful to vegetation. As the lead concentration increases, it adversely affects several biological parameters and eventually renders the soil barren. This edited book brings together a diverse group of researchers to address the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by lead contamination of soil and plants. The book sheds light on this global environmental issue and proposes solutions to contamination through multi-disciplinary approaches. This book contains three sections. The first section describes the different sources and distribution of lead in soil and plant ecosystems. The second section explains the health risks linked to lead toxicity. The third section addresses sustainable lead toxicity mitigation strategies and the potential applications of recent biological technology in providing solutions. This book is a valuable resource to students, academics, researchers, and environmental professionals doing fieldwork on lead contamination throughout the world.

Author : Paul Mushak
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 991 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780444515544

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Lead and Public Health by Paul Mushak Pdf

Pt. 1. Lead in the human environment -- pt. 2. Lead exposure in human populations -- pt. 3. Lead toxicity in humans -- pt. 4. Human health risk assessment -- pt. 5. Regulatory approaches to control.

Author : Nitish Kumar,Amrit Kumar Jha
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031461460

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Lead Toxicity Mitigation: Sustainable Nexus Approaches by Nitish Kumar,Amrit Kumar Jha Pdf

This edited book brings together a diverse group of researchers to address the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by lead contamination of soil and plants. Lead is among the elements that have been most extensively used by man over time. This has led to extensive pollution of surface soils on the local scale, mainly associated with mining and smelting of the metal and addition of organic lead compounds to petrol. Release of lead to the atmosphere from various high-temperature processes has led to surface contamination on the regional and even global scale. Lead is particularly strongly bound to humic matter in organic-rich soil and to iron oxides in mineral soil and is rather immobile in the soil unless present at very high concentrations. In addition, plants grown on lead-rich soils incorporate lead and thus the concentration of lead in crop plants may be increased. Lead enters in the food chain through consumption of plant material. A high concentration of lead has been found to be harmful to vegetation. As the lead concentration increases, it adversely affects several biological parameters and eventually renders the soil barren. The book sheds light on this global environmental issue and proposes solutions to contamination through multi-disciplinary approaches. This book contains three sections. First section describes the different sources and distribution of lead in soil and plant ecosystems. Second section explains the health risks linked to lead toxicity. Third section addresses sustainable lead toxicity mitigation strategies using the potential applications of recent biological technology. This book is a valuable resource to students, academics, researchers, and environmental professionals doing field work on contamination throughout the world.

Author : Nitish Kumar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813360686

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Arsenic Toxicity: Challenges and Solutions by Nitish Kumar Pdf

Arsenic (As) is a widely distributed element in the environment having no known useful physiological function in plants or animals. Historically, this metalloid has been known to be used widely as a poison. Effects of arsenic have come to light in the past few decades due to its increasing contamination in several parts of world, with the worst situation being in Bangladesh and West Bengal in India. This edited volume brings together diverse group of environmental science, sustainability and health researchers to address the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by arsenic water contamination. The book covers sources of arsenic contamination, and its impact on human health and on prospective remediation both by bioremediation and phytoremediation. Applications of advance techniques such as genetic engineering and nanotechnology are also discussed to resolve the issue of arsenic contamination in ground water and river basins. The book sheds light on this global environmental issue, and proposes solutions to remove contamination through a multi-disciplinary lens and case studies from Bangladesh and India. The book may serve as a reference to environment and sustainability researchers, students and policy makers. It delivers an outline to graduate, undergraduate students and researchers, as well as academicians who are working on arsenic toxicity with respect to remediation and health issues.

Author : Sarah E. Royce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Lead
ISBN : UOM:39015051606617

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Lead Toxicity by Sarah E. Royce Pdf

Author : Radhey Lal Singhal,John A. Thomas
Publisher : Urban & Schwarzenberg
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015002431255

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Lead Toxicity by Radhey Lal Singhal,John A. Thomas Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Lead poisoning in children
ISBN : OCLC:1434635211

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Lead Absorption in Children: Management, Clinical and Environmental Aspects by Anonim Pdf

ADAPTED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS HELD BY THE JOHN F KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN AND THE JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, NOVEMBER 1979. CONTENTS: THE EVOLUTION OF LEAD POISONING AS A PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM. METABOLISM OF LEAD. LEAD TOXICITY. SUB-ENCEPHALOPATHIC LEAD POISONING: CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM EFFECTS IN CHILDREN. DEVELOPMENT NEUROTOXICOLOGY OF LEAD: EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES. EXPOSURE TO LEAD. ROLE OF NUTRITION IN PREVENTION OF PEDIATRIC LEAD TOXICITY. LEAD POISONING IN CHILDREN: THE CASE AGAINST HOUSEHOLD LEAD DUST. SOCIAL FACTORS IN THE RECURRENCE OF INCREASED LEAD ABSORPTION IN CHILDREN. BEHAVIORAL APPROACHES TO LEAD INGESTION. COORDINATION OF LEAD SCREENING, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT PROGRAMS. LABORATORY ASPECTS OF LEAD POISONING CONTROL. METHODS FOR ABATIN LEAD HAZARDS IN HOUSING. SOME PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL PHASES OF A CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING PREVENTION PROGRAM. LEAD CONTAMINATED HOUSEDUST: HAZARD, MEASUREMENT AND DECONTAMINATION. CLINICAL OUTPATIENT MANAGEMENT OF CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING. ROLE OF THE PEDIATRIC INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITY IN THE TREATMENT OF CHILDREN WITH LEAD POISONING. MANAGEMENT OF INCREASED LEAD ABSORPTION: ILLUSTTRATIVE CASES. IMPLICATIONS OF NEWER DATA FOR SCREENING AND EVALUATION OF CHILDREN. RESEARCH WEEDS. SOME PRACTICAL PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS IN LEAD POISONING PREVENTION PROGRAMS: AN OVERVIEW OF THE CONFERENCE.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309452960

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Communities in Action by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States Pdf

In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Lead
ISBN : 3541703318

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Lead Absorption in Children by Anonim Pdf

Author : JoAnn Chirico
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781544361253

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Global Problems, Global Solutions by JoAnn Chirico Pdf

Global Problems, Global Solutions: Prospects for a Better World by JoAnn Chirico approaches social problems from a global perspective with an emphasis on using one’s sociological imagination. Perfect for instructors who involve students in research, this text connects problems borne by individuals to regional, global, and historical forces, and stresses the importance of evidence in forming opinions and policies addressing social issues. The book introduces readers to the complexities of the major problems that confront us today such as violent conflict, poverty, climate change, human trafficking and other issues that we encounter in our lives. It book concludes with a chapter on politics and government, underscoring the need for good governance at all levels–and cooperation among many layers of government–to build a better world.

Author : Robert C. Brears
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000047752

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Nature-Based Solutions to 21st Century Challenges by Robert C. Brears Pdf

This book provides a systematic review of nature-based solutions and their potential to address current environmental challenges. In the 21st century, society is faced by rapid urbanisation and population growth, degradation and loss of natural capital and associated ecosystem services, an increase in natural disaster risks, and climate change. With growing recognition of the need to work with ecosystems to resolve these issues there is now a move towards nature-based solutions, which involve utilising nature’s ecosystem to solve societal challenges while providing multiple co-benefits. This book systematically reviews nature-based solutions from a public policy angle, assessing policy developments which encourage the implementation of nature-based solutions to address societal challenges while simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits. This includes enhancing sustainable urbanisation, restoring degraded ecosystems, mitigating and adapting to climate change, and reducing risks from natural disasters. While nature-based solutions can be applied strategically and equitably to help societies address a variety of climatic and non-climatic challenges, there is still a lack of understanding on how best to implement them. The book concludes by providing a best practice guide for those aiming to turn societal challenges into opportunities. This book will be of great interest to policymakers, practitioners and researchers involved in nature-based solutions, sustainable urban planning, environmental management, and sustainable development generally.

Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air and Radiation,U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Air quality
ISBN : UCR:31210012668610

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The Inside Story by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air and Radiation,U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Pdf

Author : Eugene A. Razzetti
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781449085797

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Fixes That Last - the Executive's Guide to Fix It or Lose It Management by Eugene A. Razzetti Pdf

This book is about what I call Fix it or lose it Management. I wrote it to help you do your own turnaround inside your organization, before someone else does it for you or your organization goes under completely. This book is a compendium of carefully selected good ideas from good books, plus my own experience in nearly 20 years as a management consultant and the 27 years of Military service that preceded it. Like my last book, I wrote it so that you could have straightforward, no-nonsense material, ready to implement. CEOs and other responsible people in leadership positions dont always have time to do their own research. Instead, they throw themselves on the mercy of contractors, who think in terms of yearly contracts. You can do the job better.

Author : United States. Bureau of Mines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1266 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Mineral industries
ISBN : UCAL:C3093394

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Mineral Facts and Problems by United States. Bureau of Mines Pdf

Author : Samuel Myers,Howard Frumkin
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610919661

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Planetary Health by Samuel Myers,Howard Frumkin Pdf

Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth’s natural systems—the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate—are our life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are degrading these systems. The emerging field of planetary health aims to understand how these changes threaten our health and how to protect ourselves and the rest of the biosphere. Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves provides a readable introduction to this new paradigm. With an interdisciplinary approach, the book addresses a wide range of health impacts felt in the Anthropocene, including food and nutrition, infectious disease, non-communicable disease, dislocation and conflict, and mental health. It also presents strategies to combat environmental changes and its ill-effects, such as controlling toxic exposures, investing in clean energy, improving urban design, and more. Chapters are authored by widely recognized experts. The result is a comprehensive and optimistic overview of a growing field that is being adopted by researchers and universities around the world. Students of public health will gain a solid grounding in the new challenges their profession must confront, while those in the environmental sciences, agriculture, the design professions, and other fields will become familiar with the human consequences of planetary changes. Understanding how our changing environment affects our health is increasingly critical to a variety of disciplines and professions. Planetary Health is the definitive guide to this vital field.