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Environmental Metal Exposures and Effects on Maternal and Child Health in Bangladesh

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Andrews, Faye V.

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Bangladesh is a developing country with burdens of environmental pollution and disparities in maternal and child health. Arsenic, manganese, and lead are pervasive environmental contaminants throughout Bangladesh with major exposures through drinking water and ambient pollution. Chronic exposures to arsenic, manganese, and lead in sensitive populations such as pregnant women,...

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Dissertation

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AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Faye V. Andrews
Human Exposure to PAHs in Air, Water, and Crayfish

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Paulik, L. Blair

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There are many links between exposure to environmental pollution and risks to human health. While advances in the fields of toxicology, exposure science, and environmental chemistry have shown light on many of these links, many more research challenges remain. One major challenge is how to accurately characterize the toxicity of...

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Dissertation

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: ______________________________________________________ Kim A. Anderson There are many links between exposure to environmental pollution and risks to
Shifting Rural Quantification Towards Study of Health Disparities: Applications in Statistical and Spatial Analysis of Rural Colorectal Cancer

Creator:

Buchalter, Robert Blake

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Quantitative measurement of the urban-rural continuum for examination of U.S. rural health disparities is a relatively new research area, where only a handful of studies have investigated health disparities using quantitative rural measures and even fewer have attempted to integrate health variables within said measures. Most U.S. rural health disparity...

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Dissertation

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revisions; to Dr. John Waterbor for the wisdom throughout my graduate work; to Faye Andrews for the