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Also the prevalence of bacterial pneumonia in most impoverished African American census area, 20% or more people in the area live below the federal poverty level, is 4.44 times higher than the least impoverished white census area, less than 5% of the population in the area live below the federal poverty level, and 2.12 time higher than most ...
Emissions are the quantity of pollutants released from a particular source; exposure is the quantity of a pollutant breathed in by people or other living things. Where air pollution laws may seek to limit the emissions of a particular pollutant, or the concentration in a particular environment, the health impacts depend on people's exposure to ...
The four-step risk assessment process. Environmental hazard identification is the first step in environmental risk assessment, which is the process of assessing the likelihood, or risk, of adverse effects resulting from a given environmental stressor. [6]
[242] [243] There are anecdotal reports of negative health effects on people who live very close to wind turbines. [244] Peer-reviewed research has generally not supported these claims. [ 245 ] [ 246 ] [ 247 ] Pile-driving to construct non-floating wind farms is noisy underwater , [ 248 ] but in operation offshore wind is much quieter than ships.
1634–1640 Wyandot people epidemic 1634–1640 Wyandot people, North America Smallpox and Influenza: 15,000–25,000 [72] 1637 London plague epidemic (part of the second plague pandemic) 1636–1637 London and Westminster, England Bubonic plague: 10,400 [73] Great Plague in the late Ming dynasty (part of the second plague pandemic) 1633–1644 ...
Quizlet was founded in 2005 by Andrew Sutherland as a studying tool to aid in memorization for his French class, which he claimed to have "aced". [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Quizlet's blog, written mostly by Andrew in the earlier days of the company, claims it had reached 50,000 registered users in 252 days online. [ 9 ]
The American Lung Association has stated "there is no evidence that oxygen at the low flow levels used in bars can be dangerous to a normal person's health", but the U.S. Center for Drug Evaluation and Research cautions that people with heart or lung disease need their supplementary oxygen carefully regulated and should not use oxygen bars. [140]
In Canada and England and Wales, certain convicted persons may be designated as dangerous offenders and subject to a longer, or indefinite, term of imprisonment in order to protect the public. Dangerousness in law is a legal establishment of the risk that a person poses to cause harm.