Abstract:
:A brief overview is given of the sources, characteristics, and toxic constituents of municipal solid wastes. Several methods are presented for handling, treating, and disposal of solid wastes. Monitoring the landfill site is necessary; there has been a trend to recognize that municipal solid wastes may be hazardous and to provide separate secure handling, treatment, and disposal for their dangerous constituents. Under current state and Federal regulations, permits are being required to assure that proper handling of conventional solid wastes and more hazardous constituents are carefully managed.
journal_name
Environ Health Perspectjournal_title
Environmental health perspectivesauthors
Stone Rdoi
10.1289/ehp.7827239subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1978-12-01 00:00:00pages
239-44eissn
0091-6765issn
1552-9924journal_volume
27pub_type
杂志文章abstract::It has been hypothesized that environmental exposure to synthetic estrogenic chemicals and related endocrine-active compounds may be responsible for a global decrease in sperm counts, decreased male reproductive capacity, and breast cancer in women. Results of recent studies show that there are large demographic varia...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1289/ehp.00108487
更新日期:2000-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Phthalates may pose a risk for perinatal developmental effects. An important question relates to the choice of suitable biological matrices for assessing exposure during this period. OBJECTIVES:This study was designed to measure the concentrations of phthalate diesters or their metabolites in breast milk, b...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.10788
更新日期:2008-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The anatomy of the intestine is outlined. The kinetics of cell proliferation, differentiation, and migration in intestinal epithelium are described. The distribution of cell types between the proliferation and differentiation compartments of the epithelium is summarized. Seven preparations of intestine in current use ...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.793325
更新日期:1979-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Methylmercury (MeHg) exhibits neurotoxicity through accumulation in the brain. The transcription factor Nrf2 (nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2) plays an important role in reducing the cellular accumulation of MeHg. OBJECTIVES:We investigated the protective effect of isothiocyanates, which are kno...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.1003123
更新日期:2011-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Pesticides have been associated with Parkinson's disease (PD), but there are few data on important exposure characteristics such as dose-effect relations. It is unknown whether associations depend on clinical PD subtypes. OBJECTIVES:We examined quantitative aspects of occupational pesticide exposure associa...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.1307970
更新日期:2015-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::The presence of blue-green algae (BGA) toxins in surface waters used for drinking water sources and recreation is receiving increasing attention around the world as a public health concern. However, potential risks from exposure to these toxins in contaminated health food products that contain BGA have been largely ig...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.00108435
更新日期:2000-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Heat is the primary weather-related cause of death in the United States. Increasing heat and humidity, at least partially related to anthropogenic climate change, suggest that a long-term increase in heat-related mortality could occur. We calculated the annual excess mortality on days when apparent temperatures--an in...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.6336
更新日期:2003-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::The Clean Air Act requires that sensitive subgroups of exposed populations be protected from adverse health effects of air pollution exposure. Hence, data suggesting the existence of sensitive subgroups can have an important impact on regulatory decisions. Some investigators have interpreted differences among individu...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.90-1519500
更新日期:1991-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Environmental exposures to phthalates, particularly high-molecular-weight (HMW) phthalates, are suspected to contribute to allergy. OBJECTIVE:We assessed whether phthalate metabolites are associated with allergic symptoms and sensitization in a large nationally representative sample. METHODS:We used data o...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.1206211
更新日期:2013-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::We conducted a study to examine seasonal changes in residential dust lead content and its relationship to blood lead in preschool children. We collected blood and dust samples (floors, windowsills, and carpets) to assess lead exposure. The geometric mean blood lead concentrations are 10.77 and 7.66 microg/dL for the d...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.00108177
更新日期:2000-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Effects of respirable aerosols of sulfuric acid, ammonium sulfate, sodium sulfite, and ammonium persulfate on lungs of rats are reviewed. The literature regarding interactions between ozone or nitrogen dioxide and acidic aerosols (ammonium sulfate, sulfuric acid) is discussed. An unexpected interaction between nitroge...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.8979115
更新日期:1989-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The role of the knowledge of high risk groups in the standard-setting process is examined. The overall conclusion is that many potential high risk segments of the population have not been studied adequately and that this deficiency in our knowledge markedly reduces the ability of decision makers to derive appropriate ...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.8352257
更新日期:1983-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Ocean pollution affects marine organisms and ecosystems as well as humans. The International Oceanographic Commission recommends ocean health monitoring programs to investigate the presence of marine contaminants and the health of threatened species and the use of multiple and early-warning biomarker approac...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.0901809
更新日期:2011-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Tremor is one of the most common neurological signs, yet its etiology is poorly understood. Case-control studies suggest an association between blood lead and essential tremor, and that this association is modified by polymorphisms in the δ-aminolevulinic acid dehydrogenase (ALAD) gene. OBJECTIVE:We aimed t...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.1408535
更新日期:2015-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Organophosphate (OP) pesticides are commonly used in the United States, and farmworkers are at risk for chronic exposure. Using a sample of 218 farmworkers in 24 communities and labor camps in eastern Washington State, we examined the association between agricultural crop and OP pesticide metabolite concentrations in ...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.8620
更新日期:2006-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::A review of the present understanding of asthma leads to the following conclusions: an elevated IgE is the principal risk factor in the development of childhood asthma; secondary exposure to a wide range of environmental agents (including indoor bioallergens) accounts for the variations in prevalence; prevalence (defi...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1289/ehp.95103s6243
更新日期:1995-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Traditional models of toxicity have relied on dissecting chemical action into pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes. However, the integration of genomic information with toxicology will enhance our basic understanding of these processes and significantly change the way we apply toxicological information to ris...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1289/ehp.02110s6919
更新日期:2002-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Animal studies suggest that early-life lead exposure influences gene expression and production of proteins associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD). OBJECTIVES:We attempted to assess the relationship between early-life lead exposure and potential biomarkers for AD among young men and women. We also attempte...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.1104474
更新日期:2012-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::This study constitutes one part of a program for assessing the impact of coal-fired power plants on the surrounding communities. A questionnaire was mailed to a total of 12,000 subjects living in six areas with coal-fired plants and in matched reference areas. The participation rate was 77.3%. In one coal-fired plant/...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.8670239
更新日期:1986-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Under a cooperative agreement between New York University and the Environmental Protection Agency, and in collaboration with the University of Sao Paulo (USP), a study is ongoing in Cubatao, Brazil, to try to establish exposure-response relationships on the impact of specific industrial effluents on respiratory functi...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.94-1567962
更新日期:1991-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The mortality impacts of hot and cold temperatures have been thoroughly documented, with most locations reporting a U-shaped relationship with a minimum mortality temperature (MMT) at which mortality is lowest. How MMT may have evolved over previous decades as the global mean surface temperature has increase...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.1509692
更新日期:2016-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::There are still many uncertainties regarding the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes associated with exposure to drinking water disinfection by-products. In Montréal, Québec, Canada, we carried out a hospital-based case-control study including 493 cases of intrauterine growth restriction defined as birth weight below t...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.7003
更新日期:2004-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The significance of the environment for health is increasingly being recognized. There is a need for systematic approaches to assessment of environmental factors most relevant to health, health outcomes most influenced by the environment, and the relationships between them, as well as for approaches to representing th...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.8321
更新日期:2006-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Mass poisonings, called yusho and yu-cheng, occurred in western Japan in 1968 and central Taiwan in 1979, respectively. These occurrences were separately caused by ingestion of rice oils contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) and polychlorinated quaterphenyls. The tot...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.8560321
更新日期:1985-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Methylmercury (MeHg) may affect fetal growth; however, prior research often lacked assessment of mercury speciation, confounders, and interactions. OBJECTIVE:Our objective was to assess the relationship between MeHg and fetal growth as well as the potential for confounding or interaction of this relationshi...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.1408596
更新日期:2016-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is under a congressional mandate to revise its current standard for arsenic in drinking water. We present a risk assessment for cancers of the bladder, liver, and lung from exposure to arsenic in water, based on data from 42 villages in an arseniasis-endemic region of Taiwan. W...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.00108655
更新日期:2000-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Epidemiologic studies report associations between particulate air pollution and cardiopulmonary morbidity and mortality. Although the underlying pathophysiologic mechanisms remain unclear, it has been hypothesized that altered autonomic function and pulmonary/systemic inflammation may play a role. In this study we exp...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.6588
更新日期:2004-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Most contemporary bioinsecticides are derived from scaled-up cultures of Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies israelensis (Bti) and kurstaki (Btk), whose particulate fractions contain mostly B. thuringiensis spores (> 10(12)/L) and proteinaceous aggregates, including crystal-like parasporal inclusion bodies (PIB). Based ...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.00108919
更新日期:2000-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The problems of quantitating chrysotile in water by fiber count techniques are reviewed briefly and the use of mass quantitation is suggested as a preferable measure. Chrysotile fiber has been found in almost every sample of natural water examined, but generally transmission electron miscroscopy (TEM) is required beca...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.749161
更新日期:1974-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are toxic pollutants released by the World Trade Center (WTC) fires and various urban combustion sources. Benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) is a representative member of the class of PAHs. PAH-DNA adducts, or BaP-DNA adducts as their proxy, provide a measure of chemical-specific genetic dama...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.7908
更新日期:2005-08-01 00:00:00