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  • Prenatal and Early-life Metals Exposure and Immune Function in Children

    Creator:
    Welch, Barrett M.
    Abstract:
    Immune system development during prenatal and early-life periods are essential for healthy development. Environmental and nutritional factors during these periods have strong influences on immune development and can have impacts on disease susceptibility for an individual throughout adulthood. Globally, hundreds of millions of people experience elevated environmental exposure to arsenic,...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    interpretation of findings, and reviewed the second manuscript. Sharia M. Ahmed helped to organize data

  • Community Risk Factors for Post-Hurricane Disease

    Creator:
    Hultberg, Kate
    Abstract:
    This thesis explores interrelationships between the geographical impact of recent hurricanes, rates of giardiasis and cryptosporidiosis in impacted communities, and effects of hurricanes on local water infrastructure systems. I obtained quantitative data on geographical hurricane attributes, demographic characteristics of populations struck by hurricanes, and confirmed cases of giardiasis and cryptosporidiosis...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
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    seen in developed nations such as the United States ​(Haque, 2007)​. Perhaps the two most prevalent

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

    Creator:
    Andrews, Faye V.
    Abstract:
    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