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Waddington, Hugh; Snilstveit, Birte; Hombrados, Jorge Garcia; Vojtkova, Martina; Anderson, Jock; White, Howard – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2012
Farmer field schools (FFSs) originated in Asia as a means of achieving several objectives, of which key was to deliver training on 'integrated pest management' as an alternative to intensive pesticide spraying, which was severely damaging farm production, the environment and farmers' health. Integrated pest management (IPM) was developed in the…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Occupations, Training
LDA Minnesota, 2010
This issue of "Learning Times" discusses how individuals with ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) can benefit from coaches and counselors. This issue also includes the following features: (1) Healthy Legacy: Anxiety, Inattention, Poor Decisions Increase in Kids with Higher Lead Levels; (2) Parent Corner: New Book for Kids…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Coaching (Performance), Counseling, Poisoning
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Fishel, Fred – Journal of Extension, 2010
Operation Cleansweep is a free pesticide disposal program that has operated in Florida since 1995. The program is open to commercial facilities, including agricultural production establishments, golf course operators, and pest control companies. Since its inception, the program has had more than 1,700 participants and collected more than 1,000,000…
Descriptors: Animals, Poisoning, Agricultural Production, Extension Education
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George, Christine Marie; Factor-Litvak, Pam; Khan, Khalid; Islam, Tariqul; Singha, Ashit; Moon-Howard, Joyce; van Geen, Alexander; Graziano, Joseph H. – Health Education & Behavior, 2013
The objective of this study was to design and evaluate a household-level arsenic education and well water arsenic testing intervention to increase arsenic awareness in Bangladesh. The authors randomly selected 1,000 study respondents located in 20 villages in Singair, Bangladesh. The main outcome was the change in knowledge of arsenic from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Water, Poisoning, Intervention
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LePrevost, Catherine E.; Storm, Julia F.; Asuaje, Cesar R.; Cope, W. Gregory – Journal of Extension, 2014
Migrant and seasonal farmworkers are typically Spanish-speaking, Latino immigrants with limited formal education and low literacy skills and, as such, are a vulnerable population. We describe the development of the "Pesticides and Farmworker Health Toolkit", a pesticide safety and health curriculum designed to communicate to farmworkers…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Hispanic Americans, Poisoning, Agricultural Laborers
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Markowitz, Gerald; Rosner, David – Academe, 2010
During the past two decades, historians have been brought into legal cases in unprecedented numbers. As the courts have tried to adjudicate responsibility for environmental and occupational diseases, history and historians have played an increasingly central role in shaping decisions in the cases themselves as well as in related social policy. In…
Descriptors: Historians, Court Litigation, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning
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Heydari, Fatemeh; Ghanei, Mostafa – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2011
Sulfur mustard is an alkylating agent with highly cytotoxic properties even at low exposure. It was used widely against both military and civilian population by Iraqi forces in the Iraq-Iran war (1983-1988). Although various aspects of mustard gas effects on patients with chemical injury have been relatively well characterized, its effects on…
Descriptors: Injuries, Physiology, Patients, Foreign Countries
Moolenaar, Ronald L., Ed. – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012
The "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" ("MMWR") Series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Data presented by the Notifiable Disease Data Team and 122 Cities Mortality Data Team in the weekly "MMWR" are provisional, based on weekly reports to CDC by state health departments. This…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Poisoning, Drug Therapy, Patients
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Sierra, Leonor – School Science Review, 2011
Sense About Science is a UK-based charitable trust that equips people to make sense of science and of evidence on issues that matter to society. It was set up in 2003 in response to newspaper front pages being full of headlines about mobile phones "frying your brain", genetically modified "Frankenstein foods", the MMR vaccine,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Trusts (Financial), Immunization Programs, Poisoning
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Cook, Thomas Bradley; Davis, Mark S. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2012
Relatively little is known about legal entanglements and suicide risk. This matched case-control study estimated the risk of suicide associated with legal strains using online court archives, a novel source of exposure data. Court records linked to suicide deaths (N = 315), controls (N = 630), and unintentional injury and poisoning deaths (N =…
Descriptors: Prevention, Accidents, Suicide, Archives
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Shorette, Kristen – Social Forces, 2012
Previous research identifies changing world cultural norms as the impetus for a worldwide trend promoting environmentalism. However, the extent to which countries comply with the norms promoted and codified by environmental organizations and treaties has been less rigorously tested. Suspected noncompliance is generally explained as "decoupling"…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Poisoning, Norms, Agriculture
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Fishel, Fred; Ferrell, Jason; Vallad, Gary; Price, Jim; Cherry, Ron; Mizell, Russ; Duncan, Larry – Journal of Extension, 2010
Polycom technology has potential for efficient use of program delivery by Extension educators. A survey of licensed pesticide applicators attending a 1-day event at one of 20 host polycom sites revealed that polycom distance learning is effective for presenting information and learning. Responses also indicated that most of this audience is…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Distance Education, Poisoning, Continuing Education
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Walter, Pierre – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2013
This historical study identifies catalysts for transformative learning in the lives of three scientist-environmentalists important to the 20th-century environmental movement: Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and David Suzuki. Following a brief review of theoretical perspectives on transformative learning, the article argues that transformative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transformative Learning, Adult Education, Environmental Education
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Wood, Joanne N.; Pecker, Lydia H.; Russo, Michael E.; Henretig, Fred; Christian, Cindy W. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2012
Objective: Although the majority of poisonings in young children are due to exploratory ingestions and might be prevented through improved caregiver supervision, the circumstances that warrant evaluation for suspected maltreatment and referral to Child Protective Services (CPS) are unclear. Therefore the objective of this study was to determine…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Hospitals, Child Rearing, Poisoning
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Oster-Aaland, Laura; Thompson, Kevin; Eighmy, Myron – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2011
This study analyzed the impact of a medical amnesty policy and an online alcohol poisoning video on college students' intentions to seek help when witnessing alcohol poisoning symptoms. Students were randomly assigned to receive an amnesty policy, alcohol poisoning video, or both. The group that received both treatments was most likely to seek…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Undergraduate Students, Poisoning, Help Seeking
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