T
he
Health Effects Review
is a quarterly review and summary of the
scientific literature on human health effects and environmental
pollutants. Prepared under the direction of the Health
Professionals Task Force of the International Joint Commission,
emphasis is on pollutants within the Great Lakes ecosystem.
To view the newsletters in html, just click on the red balls which will
take you a specific location in the newsletter. The
newsletters can also all be downloaded and viewed in Adobe Acrobat Reader, which
is available by clicking on the icon Get Acrobat Reader
Following
is a list of Health Effects Review newsletters:
| Health Effects and Climate Change along the Canadian-US Border Region-Vol 4. Issue 1 Download Document (PDF/1.8MB/ 2pgs.) |
Phthalates -Vol. 3 Issue 4
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Introduction
Studies Reviewed
Conclusions
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Hazardous Waste Sites and Human Health - Vol. 3 Issue 3
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Introduction
Studies Reviewed
Summary
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Environmental Organochlorine Exposure & Risk of Breast Cancer - Vol. 3
Issue 2
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Introduction
Studies Reviewed
Conclusion
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Great Lakes
Critical Pollutants - Vol. 3 Issue 1
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Introduction
Organochlorine Residues in
Normal and Diseased States
Occupational Aldrin
Exposure, Enzyme Induction, and Genotoxicity
Mortality Studies of
Organochlorine Manufacturing Workers
Conclusions
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Airborne
Particulate Matter - Vol. 2 Issue 4
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Introduction
Particulate Matter Terms
Community Health Studies
Airborne Particles in the
US and Canada
Biological Mechanisms for
PM Effects
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Great Lakes
Human Health Studies: Neurobehavioral Effects - Vol. 2 Issue 3
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Immunotoxicology
- Vol.
2 Issue 2
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Introduction
Recent Wildlife studies
Developmental
Immunotoxicology
Environmental exposures
Occupational exposures
Great Lakes Basin
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Environmental
Radionuclides - Vol. 2 Issue 1
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Introduction
Exposure studies
Low-level exposure studies
High-level exposures
Risk assessment
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Microbiological
Water Pollution - Vol. 1 Issue 7
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Introduction
Infectious diseases in
Great Lakes region
Environmental exposure
surveys
Other issues - Antibiotic
resistance, Global climate change
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Environmental
Lead - Vol.
1 Issue 6
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Introduction
Lead in the Great Lakes
region
Health effects
Need for continued
reduction in lead exposure
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Asthma
and Air Pollution - Vol. 1 Issue 5
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Introduction
Criteria pollutants
Airborne allergens
Toxic air pollutants
Indoor environmental
factors
Interactive effects
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Methyl Mercury -
Vol. 1
Issue 4
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Introduction and Risk Assessment Cohort Studies
Canadian Cree Indian Cohort Study
Faroe Islands Study
New Zealand Study
Seychelles Child
development Study
Exposure studies
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Changes in Sperm Count and Function -
Volume 1 Issue 3
Estrogenic Effects of
Environmental Chemicals
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