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Further Reading: Health

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Health Impact Of Nanotechnology ... In 1828, an article published in a Hagerstown, Maryland, newspaper briefly describes a young girl who's drawn away from her daily chores to play a familiar game with her friends. In "A Village Sketch," author Miss Mitford wrote: "Then comes a sun-burnt gipsy of six, beginning to grow tall and thin and to find the cares of the world gathering about her; with a pitcher in one hand, a mop in the other, an old straw bonnet of ambiguous shape, half hiding her tangled hair; a tattered stuff petticoat once green, hanging below an equally tattered cotton frock, once purple; her longing eyes fixed on a game of baseball at the corner of the green till she reaches the cottage door, flings down the mop and pitcher and darts off to her companions quite regardless of the storm of scolding with which the mother follows her runaway steps." The first team to play baseball under modern rules were the New York Knickerbockers...

Medical School ... Environmental health is defined by the World Health Organization as: Those aspects of the human health and disease that are determined by factors in the environment... It also refers to the theory and practice of assessing and controlling factors in the environment that can potentially affect health... Environmental health as used by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, includes both the direct pathological effects of chemicals, radiation and some biological agents, and the effects (often indirect) on health and well being of the broad physical, psychological, social and cultural environment, which includes housing, urban development, land use and transport...

History Of Baseball In The United States ... Diseases For a complete list, see List of dog diseases Some diseases and other health problems are common to both humans and dogs; others are unique to dogs and other animals... Certain infectious diseases are a concern from a public health standpoint because they are zoonoses (transmittable to humans)... The sacred animal of the Babylonian goddess of health Gula or Ninisina was the dog; if a person insulted a dog, Gula caused that dog to bite the person and inflict them with rabies...

Smoking ... The most common method of smoking today is through cigarettes, primarily industrially manufactured but also hand-rolled from loose tobacco and rolling paper. Other smoking implements include pipes, cigars, bidis, hookahs, vaporizers and bongs...

Halitosis ... Health effects Physical exercise is important for maintaining physical fitness and can contribute positively to maintaining a healthy weight, building and maintaining healthy bone density, muscle strength, and joint mobility, promoting physiological well-being, reducing surgical risks, and strengthening the immune system...

Public Health ... Access to health care varies across countries, groups and individuals, largely influenced by social and economic conditions as well as the health policies in place... Countries and jurisdictions have different policies and plans in relation to the personal and population-based health care goals within their societies... In some countries and jurisdictions, health care planning is distributed among market participants, whereas in others planning is made more centrally among governments or other coordinating bodies...

Health Effects Of Tobacco ... Cannabis was common in the Middle East before the arrival of tobacco, and has been known to be in existence since 2000 BC. The early consumption of cannabis was a common social activity that centered around the type of water pipe called a hookah...

Health Insurance ... Also, environmental tobacco smoke, or secondhand smoke, has been shown to cause adverse health effects in people of all ages... The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that tobacco caused 5.4 million deaths in 2004 and 100 million deaths over the course of the 20th century... Similarly, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes tobacco use as "the single most important preventable risk to human health in developed countries and an important cause of premature death worldwide." Smoke contains several carcinogenic pyrolytic products that bind to DNA and cause many genetic mutations...

Health Care System In Japan ... The CHA deals only with how the system is financed. Because of the constitutional division of powers among levels of government, adherence to CHA conditions is voluntary...

Wireless Electronic Devices And Health ... Unesco Tools Unesco has published a set of tools, to support the FRESH framework, to guide those wishing to set up school health services around the world... Designed primarily for developing nations, these tools can be of universal use . The main emphasis of these tool is on: HIV/AIDS Food and nutrition Helminths and hygiene Malaria Violence Drugs, tobacco and alcohol United States School health services are well developed in the United States...

Health ... The maintenance and promotion of health is achieved through different combination of physical, mental, and social well-being, together sometimes referred to as the “health triangle”... The WHO's 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion furthered that health is not just a state, but also "a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living... Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities." Systematic activities to prevent or cure health problems and promote good health in humans are delivered by health care providers...

Healthcare Science ... The focus of public health intervention is to improve health and quality of life through the prevention and treatment of disease and other physical and mental health conditions, through surveillance of cases and the promotion of healthy behaviors... Promotion of hand washing and breastfeeding, delivery of vaccinations, and distribution of condoms to control the spread of sexually transmitted diseases are examples of common public health measures... Modern public health practice requires multidisciplinary teams of professionals including physicians specialising in public health/community medicine/infectious disease, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, public health nurses, medical microbiologists, environmental health officers, dental hygienists, dietitians and nutritionists, health inspectors, veterinarians, public health engineers, public health lawyers, sociologists, community development workers, communications officers, and others...

Health Care In Australia ... People without insurance through employers can participate in a national health insurance programme administered by local governments... In the 1980s, health care spending was rapidly increasing as was the case with many industrialized nations... While some countries like the US allowed costs to rise, Japan instead tightly regulated the health industry to rein in costs...

Health Insurance In Germany ... Whether the patient is a concession or receives other benefits Whether the patient has crossed the threshold for further subsidised service (based on total health expenditure for the year) Where the government pays the large subsidy, the patient pays the remainder out of pocket, unless the provider of the service chooses to use bulk billing, charging only the scheduled fee, leaving the patient with no extra costs... Individuals can take out private health insurance to cover out-of-pocket costs, with either a plan that covers just selected services, to a full coverage plan...

Health Care ... The type and amount of health care costs that will be covered by the health insurance provider are specified in writing, in a member contract or "Evidence of Coverage" booklet for private insurance, or in a national health policy for public insurance...

Further Reading: Food

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Food Chain ... Food chains were first introduced in a book published in 1927 by Charles Elton, which also introduced the food web concept... Food chain length Food chains are directional paths of trophic energy or, equivalently, sequences of links that start with basal species, such as producers or fine organic matter, and end with consumer organisms... The food chain length is a continuous variable that provides a measure of the passage of energy and an index of ecological structure that increases in value counting progressively through the linkages in a linear fashion from the lowest to the highest trophic (feeding) levels...

Agriculture ... The history of agriculture dates back thousands of years, and its development has been driven and defined by greatly different climates, cultures, and technologies. However, all farming generally relies on techniques to expand and maintain the lands suitable for raising domesticated species...

Food Storage ... These safety guidelines are intended to reduce the growth of mold and bacteria and the threat of potentially-fatal food poisoning... Food storage safety Freezers and thawing food Freezer temperature should be maintained at 0°F and below... Food should never be thawed at room temperature, this increases the risk of bacteria and virus growth and the risk of food poisoning...

Diet (nutrition) ... Many people choose to forgo food from animal sources to varying degrees (flexitarianism, vegetarianism, veganism, fruitarianism) for health reasons, issues surrounding morality, or to reduce their personal impact on the environment... Eating disorders An eating disorder is a mental disorder that interferes with normal food consumption defined by abnormal eating habits that may involve either insufficient or excessive diet... This usually involves consuming nutrients by eating the appropriate amounts from all of the food groups, including an adequate amount of water...

Food Industry ... The food industry includes: Regulation: local, regional, national and international rules and regulations for food production and sale, including food quality and food safety, and industry lobbying activities Education: academic, vocational, consultancy Research and development: food technology Financial services insurance, credit Manufacturing: agrichemicals, seed, farm machinery and supplies, agricultural construction, etc... Agriculture: raising of crops and livestock, seafood Food processing: preparation of fresh products for market, manufacture of prepared food products Marketing: promotion of generic products (e.g... Wholesale and distribution: warehousing, transportation, logistics Overview Definitions It is challenging to find an inclusive way to cover all aspects of food production and sale...

Cookware And Bakeware ... The choice of material for cookware and bakeware items has a significant effect on the item's performance (and cost), particularly in terms of thermal conductivity and how much food sticks to the item when in use... Some choices of material also require special pre-preparation of the surface - known as seasoning - before they are used for food preparation... In addition to exposing food to direct heat from either an open fire or hot embers it is possible to cover the food with clay or large leaves before roasting to preserve moisture in the cooked result...

Fish (food) ... According to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the risk from mercury by eating fish and shellfish is not a health concern for most people...

Animal Source Foods ... Many individuals do not consume ASF or consume little ASF by either personal choice or necessity as ASF may not be accessible or available to these people. Nutrition of animal source foods Aside from performed vitamin A, vitamin B12 and vitamin D, all vitamins found in animal source foods may also be found in plant-derived foods...

Raw Foodism ... Depending on the type of lifestyle and results desired, raw food diets may include a selection of raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds (including sprouted whole grains such as gaba rice), eggs, fish (such as sashimi), meat (such as carpaccio), and non-pasteurized/non-homogenized dairy products (such as raw milk, raw milk cheese, and raw milk yogurt)... Varieties of raw foodism Raw foodism can include any diet of primarily unheated food, or food cooked to a temperature less than 40 °C (104 °F) to 46 °C (115 °F)... The most popular raw food diet is a vegan diet, but other forms may include animal products and/or meat...

Food Vs. Fuel ... Some experts claim that since converting the entire grain harvest of the US would only produce 16% of its auto fuel needs, energy markets are effectively placed in competition with food markets for scarce arable land, resulting in higher food prices... Second generation biofuels could hence potentially combine farming for food and fuel and moreover, electricity could be generated simultaneously, which could be beneficial for developing countries and rural areas in developed countries... Environmental groups have raised concerns about this trade-off for several years, but now the debate reached a global scale due to the 2007–2008 world food price crisis...

Global Cuisines ... Comoros The Republic of the Congo Congolese cuisine (Democratic Republic of the Congo) cuisine varies widely, representing the food of indigenous people... Some foods, such as cassava (a food staple in Central Africa), groundnuts (peanuts) and chili peppers were imported from the New World... A woman carrying bananas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Central market of Léo, Burkina Faso Fufu (right) is a staple food of West and Central Africa...

Outline Of Food Preparation ... What type of thing is food preparation? Art – an art, one of the arts, is a creative endeavor or discipline... Although over time the term has come to describe any person who cooks for a living, traditionally it refers to a highly skilled professional who is proficient in all aspects of food preparation... It encompasses a vast range of methods, tools and combinations of ingredients to improve the flavour or digestibility of food...

Cuisine ... Cuisine can be stated as the foods and methods of food preparation traditional to a region or population... The major factors shaping a cuisine are climate, which in large measure determines the native raw materials that are available, economic conditions, which affect trade and can affect food distribution, imports and exports, and religious or sumptuary laws, under which certain foods are required or proscribed... Climate also affects the supply of fuel for cooking; a common Chinese food preparation method was cutting food into small pieces to cook foods quickly and conserve scarce firewood and charcoal...

Water ... Water covers 70.9% of the Earth's surface, and is vital for all known forms of life. On Earth, 96.5% of the planet's water is found in oceans, 1.7% in groundwater, 1.7% in glaciers and the ice caps of Antarctica and Greenland, a small fraction in other large water bodies, and 0.001% in the air as vapor, clouds (formed of solid and liquid water particles suspended in air), and precipitation...

Restaurant ... Professional artisans of cooking are called chefs, while preparation staff and line cooks prepare food items in a more systematic and less artistic fashion... History In Ancient Rome, thermopolia (singular thermopolium) were small restaurant-bars which offered food and drinks to the customer... A typical thermopolium had L-shaped counters into which large storage vessels were sunk, which would contain either hot or cold food...

Organic Food ... The weight of the available scientific evidence has not shown a significant difference between organic and more conventionally grown food in terms of safety, nutritional value, or taste... For the vast majority of human history, agriculture can be described as organic; only during the 20th century was a large supply of new synthetic chemicals introduced to the food supply...

Regional Cuisine ... Regional cuisines may vary based upon food availability and trade, varying climates, cooking traditions and practices, and cultural differences... One noteworthy definition is based upon traditional cuisine: "A traditional cuisine is a coherent tradition of food preparation that rises from the daily lives and kitchens of a people over an extended period in a specific region of a country, or a specific country, and which, when localized, has notable distinctions from the cuisine of the country as a whole." Regional food preparation traditions, customs and ingredients often combine to create dishes unique to a particular region...

Food Presentation ... The visual presentation of foods is often considered by chefs at many different stages of food preparation, from the manner of tying or sewing meats, to the type of cut used in chopping and slicing meats or vegetables, to the style of mold used in a poured dish... The food itself may be decorated as in elaborately iced cakes, topped with ornamental sometimes sculptural consumables, drizzled with sauces, sprinkled with seeds, powders, or other toppings, or it may be accompanied by edible or inedible garnishes...

Aid ... The provision of humanitarian aid or humanitarian response consists of the provision of vital services (such as food aid to prevent starvation) by aid agencies, and the provision of funding or in-kind services (like logistics or transport), usually through aid agencies or the government of the affected country...