Lead Pollution Data and Advocacy Resources (Santa Ana, California)
A collection of lead pollution data and advocacy resources for Santa Ana, California.
Maya OCEJ Interview Fieldnote Mar 14 2023 - 2:15pm
Maya is a science organizer with the Orange County Environmental Justice non-profit organization that focuses on low-income communities in the county that are exposed to pollutants more tha
How should we approach the green recovery
This video is for the conference on “Heath, Environment, and Education in Challenging Times” (2020). It is contributed by Mengyi Zhang and Louisa Hain.
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harrison.leinweberThis report doesn't have a great deal of impact with technical professionals. This report is much more geared toward those in the government in Colombia and actors in the international community. The report touches on the fact that hospitals and clinics are obligated to provide all persons with emergency care, but doesn't address emergency medicine more than that.
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harrison.leinweberOutside of this class and STS 6834 at Virgina Tech, it was difficult to find other places where this article was referenced. Because the article was published as part of a collection of articles related to this same topic, I assume that those who purchase the book for educational and research purposes read and discus the article at some length.
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The citations ranged widely. Many of the citations at the beginning of the article seemed to not be related to treatment as much as they were to social issues. There were also several articles that the authors referenced that the authors had written previously. Finally, there were also articles relating to treatment and statistics based on different treatment strategies on micro- and macro-scales. These citations show that the authors may have a decent support in social reform. I'm not sure how common it is to cite your own works as fact in academia, so I will withhold comment on that.
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"...responses to the problem of health and security are still taking shape" (p. 28)
" But in recent decades ... there has been an alarming shift in the 'elicate balance between humans and microbes.” (p. 7)
"The current concern with new microbial threats has developed in ... distinct domains: emerging infectious disease; bioterrorism; the cutting-edge life sciences; and food safety." (p. 9)
Looking back at 2020, COVID-19 unleashed a global pandemic that sweeps across the world. It was unexpected to see China emerging as a winner of this pandemic.