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Saturday, January 10, 2009

Illnesses and injuries related to total release foggers--eight states, 2001-2006.

15 Oct 2008 Total release foggers (TRFs), sometimes called "bug bombs," are pesticide products designed to fill an area with insecticide and often are used in homes and workplaces to kill cockroaches, fleas, and flying insects. Most TRFs contain pyrethroid, ... Read more...

Unprotected Tajik male migrant workers in Moscow at risk for HIV/AIDS.

29 Sep 2008 This paper focuses on Tajik male migrant workers in Moscow and seeks to address the global public health problem of HIV prevention amongst male migrant workers. To develop feasible and effective preventive interventions for reducing HIV risk ... Read more...

Parachuting cats and crushed eggs the controversy over the use of DDT to control malaria.

15 Sep 2008 The use of DDT to control malaria has been a contentious practice for decades. This controversy centers on concerns over the ecological harm caused by DDT relative to the gains in public health from its use to prevent malaria. Given the World ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Housing'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Illnesses and injuries related to total release foggers--eight states, 2001-2006. 15 Oct 2008
• Charitable bodies hit by credit crisis. 7 Oct 2008
• Unprotected Tajik male migrant workers in Moscow at risk for HIV/AIDS. 29 Sep 2008
• Putting housing first, making housing last: housing policy for persons with severe mental illness. 29 Sep 2008
• Parachuting cats and crushed eggs the controversy over the use of DDT to control malaria. 15 Sep 2008
• An outbreak of varicella with likely breakthrough disease in a population of pediatric cancer patients. 30 Aug 2008
• Effects of psychosocial and situational variables on substance abuse among homeless adults. 30 Aug 2008
• Housing. Policy for HIV-positive applicants deemed nondiscriminatory. 30 Aug 2008
• Operational impact of DDT reintroduction for malaria control on Anopheles arabiensis in Mozambique. 30 Aug 2008
• Disaster mythology and fact: Hurricane Katrina and social attachment. 30 Aug 2008
• House dust mite allergens in domestic homes in Cheonan, Korea. 30 Aug 2008
• Imaging polarimetry of glass buildings: why do vertical glass surfaces attract polarotactic insects? 18 Aug 2008
• Iraq's internally displaced persons: a hidden crisis. 11 Aug 2008
• Seasonal fine and coarse culturable fungal constituents and concentrations from indoor and outdoor air samples taken from an arid environment. 30 Jul 2008
• Selecting a lead hazard control strategy based on dust lead loading and housing condition: I. Methods and results. 30 Jul 2008
• Selecting a lead hazard control strategy based on dust lead loading and housing condition: II. Application of Housing Assessment Tool (HAT) modeling results. 30 Jul 2008
• Dampness and mold in the indoor environment: implications for asthma. 30 Jul 2008
• Seroepidemiology of Toxoplasma gondii infection in human adults from three rural communities in Durango State, Mexico. 30 Jul 2008
• Going! Going! ...... 30 Jul 2008
• Community knowledge, attitudes and behaviours about environmental tobacco smoke in homes and cars. 30 Jul 2008

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Technical information about 'Housing'

Definition: Living facilities for humans.

Descriptor UI: D006798

Alternative terms: Housing; Family-Patient Lodging; Family Patient Lodging; Family-Patient Lodgings; Lodging, Family-Patient; Lodgings, Family-Patient; Patient-Family Lodging; Lodging, Patient-Family; Lodgings, Patient-Family; Patient Family Lodging; Patient-Family Lodgings;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; standards; statistics & numerical data; ethics; trends;

Tree Number: N01.224.791.400; N06.230.150.360; N06.850.505.400.800.400;

Technical Notes: for persons; for animals use HOUSING, ANIMAL