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The role of air pollution in asthma and other pediatric morbiditiesA growing body of research supports the role of outdoor air pollutants in acutely aggravating chronic diseases in children, and suggests that the pollutants may have a role in the development of these diseases. This article reviews the biologic basis of …
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The National Children's Study: a critical national investmentTrasande L, Landrigan PJ. …
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Public Health and Economic Consequences of Environmental Methylmercury Toxicity to the Developing BrainMethyl mercury is a developmental neurotoxicant. Exposure results principally from consumption by pregnant women of seafood contaminated by mercury from anthropogenic (70%) and natural (30%) sources. Throughout the 1990s, the U.S. Environmental Protection …
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Creating a Metric of Educational Opportunity for Assisted HouseholdsEllen, Ingrid and Keren Horn …
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Findings on the Costs of Alcohol and Substance Abuse in New York CityBillings, J. & T. Mijanovich. …
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Analysis of primary care practitioner capacity for Medicaid managed care in New York City.Billings, J., Greene, J. & Mijanovich, T. …
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The Impact of Residency Training on Physicians’ AIDS-Related Practice Behavior: A Longitudinal Panel StudyTo determine the effects of aspects of residency training on AIDS-related treatment practices. METHOD: The authors conducted a nationwide longitudinal panel study of 394 physicians who graduated in 1989 from six medical schools in New York State. Data …
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Validation of the Brief Pediatric Asthma Screen (BPAS)Study objectives: The purpose of this study was to confirm the validity of a brief screen for pediatric asthma in schools. Background: Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood, yet the frequency with which this condition is recognized among …
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Child Development Services in Medicaid Managed care Organizations: What does it Take?Objective. We sought to understand why certain Medicaid managed care organizations (MMCOs) implemented child development services or programs and how they had done so. We also sought to identify barriers and facilitators to successful initiation and …
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L’E’conomie du don et La Philanthropie aux E’tats-Unis et en France: Analyses Compare’eLight, P.C. & Buhler, P., Charhon, F. …
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Sustaining Innovation: Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations that Innovate NaturallyAny organization can innovate once. The challenge is to innovate twice, thrice, and more?to make innovation a part of daily good practice. This book shows how nonprofit and government organizations can transform the single, occasional act of innovating …
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Final Report for the NY Statewide Transportation Master Plan/ Early Outreach Session ReportsZimmerman, R. …
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Final Report Based on the Workshop on Integrated Research for Civil InfrastructureThe nation continues to experience major problems in the performance of its infrastructure in spite of the considerable investment of resources to expand capacity, increase accessibility, and exploit innovative technologies for infrastructure improvement. …
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Issues of Climate Change and Its Impacts on the Infrastructure in the Metro East Coast (MEC) Region of the USThe infrastructure of the Metro East Coast region (MEC, with New York City at its core) is the largest, oldest, densest, and busiest in the nation. It serves some 20 million people and built assets exceed $1 trillion. Currently there is considerable …
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Farm Operator Perceptions of Water Quality Protective Pest Management Practices: Selected Survey FindingsZimmerman, R. & Lichtenberg, E. …
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Integrating Environmental Justice (EJ) Methodologies into Environmental Impact AssessmentZimmerman, R. …
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Analysis of Electrical Power and Oil and Gas Pipeline FailuresSimonoff, J.S., Restrepo, C., Zimmerman, R. & Naphtali, Z. …
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Environmental JusticeQuantitative risk assessment is a growing, important component of the larger field of risk assessment. The need to understand the risks of an activity, be it economic, environmental, public health/biomedical, or even based on terrorist or other hazardous …