Browsing Research Output by Subject "Environmental health"
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Characterization of personal solar ultraviolet radiation exposure using detrended fluctuation analysis
(Elsevier, 2020)Studies of personal solar ultraviolet radiation (pUVR) exposure are important to identify populations at-risk of excess and insufficient exposure given the negative and positive health impacts, respectively, of time spent ... -
Circular economy and environmental health in low- and middle-income countries
(BMC, 2019)Background The circular economy framework for human production and consumption is an alternative to the traditional, linear concept of ‘take, make, and dispose’. Circular economy (CE) principles comprise of ‘design out ... -
Comparing developments in water supply, sanitation and environmental health in four South African cities, 1840-1920
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2010)Environmental health had its modern-day roots in the sanitation and public health movement of the United Kingdom in the nineteenth century. The field addresses all human health-related aspects of both the natural environment ... -
Subjective and objective skin colour of a farmworker group in the Limpopo Province, South Africa
(Wiley, 2020)Background Farmworkers in the Limpopo Province, South Africa, are at risk of excessive exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation (sUVR) due to both their work and the sUVR environment in the geographic area. However, the ...