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Comnes, Leslie – Clearing, 2002
Reviews environmental hazards within schools. Identifies indoor air pollution, asbestos, lead poisoning, and pesticides as the leading hazards. Forms of indoor air pollution include radon carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds, and various allergens such as mold and animal dander. Presents some guiding principles for the…
Descriptors: Air Pollution, Educational Facilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Conditions
Download full textPublic Health Service (DHHS), Rockville, MD. – 1986
This report on the health consequences of smokeless tobacco contains an "Introduction, Overview, and Conclusions" section and four major chapters. Chapter 1 defines the various forms of smokeless tobacco that are used in the United States and examines data pertaining to trends in prevalence and patterns of use. Methodological…
Descriptors: Cancer, Diseases, Epidemiology, Health
Peer reviewedSmith, R. Jeffrey – Science, 1980
Announces the final rules published by the Environmental Protection Agency requiring that generators, transporters, and disposers of hazardous wastes report exactly where the wastes will be taken. (Author/SA)
Descriptors: Federal Regulation, Government Role, Hazardous Materials, Health Conditions
Peer reviewedGrubb, Deborah; Diamantes, Thomas – Clearing House, 1998
Examines the five major threats to healthy school buildings: sick building syndrome; health-threatening building materials; environmental hazards such as radon gas and asbestos; lead poisoning; and general indoor air quality. Discusses ways to assess and address them. (SR)
Descriptors: Asbestos, Construction Materials, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Conditions
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Amman (Jordan). Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa. – 1991
The Gulf Crisis that erupted in August, 1990 brought Jordan widespread economic devastation, increased poverty, the threat of hunger, health setbacks, and other hardships. Just as the country's economy was beginning to pull out of a lingering recession, Jordan was struck by the economic embargo against Iraq, the influx of over a million evacuees…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Children, Developing Nations, Economic Impact
Johnson, Wanda B.; Pearson, Curtis W. D. – 1983
Re-examination of a 16-county area of southern Alabama last studied in 1968 found it still economically depressed, especially for blacks. Black unemployment remains two to three times higher and black poverty rates up to five times higher than those of whites. Blacks are generally employed in the lowest paying jobs. Both black median family income…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Blacks, Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Ministry of Education and Social Affairs, Stockholm (Sweden). – 1979
A Swedish report on day care for children between the ages of 7 months and 3 years is summarized in English in this document. Preparation of the original report involved reviewing Swedish and foreign research concerning day nursery for the very young and conducting exploratory and evaluative studies of small children in day nurseries. Chapter by…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Cognitive Development, Community Characteristics, Community Surveys
