China’s exceptional economic expansion has led to rising energy demand and pollution as well as other environmental … pressures. Strong efforts by the government have moderated emissions of some types of air and water pollution from high levels … but others, including greenhouse gas emissions, continue to rise. Poor air and water quality threaten human health, create …

To study the adverse health effects of exposure to ambient air pollution in different areas of Dehra Doon. To examine … the relationship between the levels of air pollution and the percentage of affected people in selected area of Dehra Doon … city. Air quality monitoring and a questionnaire-based health survey in four areas of Dehra Doon were conducted during …

An innovative optical method for remote monitoring of water pollution was developed and tested in AMPERA ERA … for early air- or shipborne pollution detection and evaluation, specifically for oil spill detection. The systems are …

made significant advancements due to a strong commitment to improving maternal and child health. To do this, strong …, employment, and poverty reduction programs have led to better health outcomes. These countries still face challenges, however, in … terms of the evolving health system, and changes at the economic, social and political levels. Future qualitative and …

China has made great progress in improving maternal and child health (MCH). It reduced maternal deaths from 1,500 per …

We examine the impact of air pollution on infant death in California over the 1990s. Our work offers several … innovations: First, many previous studies examine populations subject to far greater levels of pollution. In contrast, the … experience of California in the 1990s is clearly relevant to current debates over the regulation of pollution. Second, many …

cost and own damage and injury). Driving faster also has external costs (pollution, adverse health impacts and injury to …

explore the extent to which the health effects of job displacement extend to the children of displaced workers and also the … first to consider whether there are any harmful effects for children who are not yet born when the separation occurs. I use … displacements on children's birth weights. These data allow for an identification strategy that essentially compares the outcomes of …

This paper considers the relationship between economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches to … state-level analyses of mortality and infant health and then consider how the estimated effects vary when the analysis is … smaller in magnitude. Further analyses suggest this is due to spillover effects of economic conditions on health outcomes …

This paper considers the relationship between local economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches … mortality and infant health and then consider how the estimated effects vary when the analysis is conducted at differing levels … downturns are associated with improved health. Further investigation reveals that county economic conditions have an independent …