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Product Description: A concise assessment of the risks to human health posed by exposure to 1 1 2 2 âtetrachloroethane, a chemical used primarily as an intermediate in the synthesis of other chlorinated hydrocarbons. The document is part of a new series of brief reports aimed at the characterization of hazards and dose-response for exposures to selected industrial chemicals...read more
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9789241530033 | World Health Organization, March 31, 1998, cover price $15.60 | About this edition: A concise assessment of the risks to human health posed by exposure to 1 1 2 2 âtetrachloroethane, a chemical used primarily as an intermediate in the synthesis of other chlorinated hydrocarbons.
Product Description: A concise assessment of the risks to human health and the environment posed by exposure to 1 2-diaminoethane. Commonly known as ethylenediamine (EDA), this compound is used as an intermediate in the manufacture of tetraacetyl ethylenediamine ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) organic flocculants urea resins and fatty bisamides...read more
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9789241530156 | World Health Organization, October 31, 1999, cover price $19.20 | About this edition: A concise assessment of the risks to human health and the environment posed by exposure to 1 2-diaminoethane.
Product Description: A concise assessment of the risks to human health and the environment posed by exposure to 1 2-dichloroethane, an industrial chemical mainly used in the synthesis of vinyl chloride. The compound is also used in the manufacture of various chlorinated solvents, as a fumigant, and in the manufacture of anti-knock additives for gasoline...read more
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9789241530019 | World Health Organization, March 31, 1998, cover price $15.60 | About this edition: A concise assessment of the risks to human health and the environment posed by exposure to 1 2-dichloroethane, an industrial chemical mainly used in the synthesis of vinyl chloride.
Product Description: 1 3-Butadiene is a product of incomplete combustion resulting from natural processes and human activity. It is also an industrial chemical used primarily in the production of polymers. It enters the environment from exhaust emissions from gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles, from non-transportation fuel combustion, from biomass combustion and from industrial on-site uses...read more
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9789241530309 | World Health Organization, September 30, 2001, cover price $25.20 | About this edition: 1 3-Butadiene is a product of incomplete combustion resulting from natural processes and human activity.
Product Description: A concise assessment of the risks to human health and the environment posed by 3 3¦-dichlorobenzidine, a chemical used primarily as an intermediate in the manufacture of pigments for printing inks, textiles, paints, and plastics...read more
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9789241530026 | World Health Organization, March 31, 1998, cover price $15.60 | About this edition: A concise assessment of the risks to human health and the environment posed by 3 3¦-dichlorobenzidine, a chemical used primarily as an intermediate in the manufacture of pigments for printing inks, textiles, paints, and plastics.
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9789248548437, titled "Abortamento Seguro: Orientação Técnica E De PolÃticas Para Sistemas De Saúde" | 2 edition (World Health Organization, February 20, 2015), cover price $36.00
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9789241507646 | 1 edition (World Health Organization, September 8, 2015), cover price $18.00
Product Description: Tous les responsables politiques, quel que soit le niveau de développement économique de leur pays, s'efforcent d'instaurer l'équité en santé et de pourvoir aux besoins sanitaires de leur population, notamment ceux des groupes vulnérables et défavorisés...read more
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9789242564013 | Pap/cdr edition (World Health Organization, January 31, 2011), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Tous les responsables politiques, quel que soit le niveau de développement économique de leur pays, s'efforcent d'instaurer l'équité en santé et de pourvoir aux besoins sanitaires de leur population, notamment ceux des groupes vulnérables et défavorisés.
Product Description: This book evaluates the risk to human health and the environment posed by exposures to Acrolein. Acrolein is a clear, colorless liquid with an intensively acrid odor. It is released to the atmosphere as a product of fermentation and ripening processes...read more
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9789241530439 | World Health Organization, January 31, 2002, cover price $25.20 | About this edition: This book evaluates the risk to human health and the environment posed by exposures to Acrolein.
Product Description: This book evaluates the risk to human health and the environment posed by exposures to acrylonitrile. Acrylonitrile is a volatile, flammable, water-soluble liquid at room temperature. The large majority of acrylonitrile in Canada is used as a feedstock or chemical aid in the production of nitrilebutadiene rubber, and in acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene and styrene-acrylonitrile polymers...read more
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9789241530392 | World Health Organization, June 30, 2002, cover price $15.60 | About this edition: This book evaluates the risk to human health and the environment posed by exposures to acrylonitrile.
Product Description: Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) elimination and control efforts are recognized as one of the most cost-effective interventions in global health today. In addition to preventing and reducing disease and disability, NTD elimination and control efforts help maximize the impact of cross-sectoral programs...read more
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9789290616511 | 1 edition (World Health Organization, February 20, 2015), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) elimination and control efforts are recognized as one of the most cost-effective interventions in global health today.
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9789241505314 | World Health Organization, August 31, 2013, cover price $24.00
Product Description: Mental health advocacy is a relatively new concept, developed with a view to reducing stigma and discrimination, and promoting the human rights of people with mental disorders. It consists of various actions aimed at changing the major structural and attitudinal barriers to achieving positive mental health outcomes in populations...read more
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9789241545907 | 1 edition (World Health Organization, December 31, 2003), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Mental health advocacy is a relatively new concept, developed with a view to reducing stigma and discrimination, and promoting the human rights of people with mental disorders.
Product Description: Les maladies tropicales négligées altèrent la vie dâun milliard de personnes dans le monde et menacent la santé de millions dâautres. Ces compagnes intimes de la pauvreté affaiblissent les populations démunies, freinent la réalisation des Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement et ont une incidencenéfaste sur la santé publique mondiale...read more
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9789242564099 | Pap/cdr edition (World Health Organization, March 31, 2012), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Les maladies tropicales négligées altèrent la vie dâun milliard de personnes dans le monde et menacent la santé de millions dâautres.
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9789291738328, titled "AIDS Epidemic Update: December 2009" | World Health Organization, December 31, 2009, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The annual AIDS epidemic update reports on the latest developments in the global AIDS epidemic.
Product Description: This Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) series publication describes a generic human health risk assessment model which can be used for risk assessment of exposure to insecticides which are used for disease vector control on board aircraft (the process known as aircraft disinsection)...read more
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9789241572439 | 1 edition (World Health Organization, May 30, 2014), cover price $48.00 | About this edition: This Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) series publication describes a generic human health risk assessment model which can be used for risk assessment of exposure to insecticides which are used for disease vector control on board aircraft (the process known as aircraft disinsection).
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9789289002646 | 1 edition (World Health Organization, April 30, 2012), cover price $36.00
Product Description: Este libro constituye una guÃa exhaustiva sobre el alivio del dolor y de los demás sÃntomas de los niños aquejados de cáncer. Con esta obra basada en los nuevos y considerables conocimientos sobre el control del dolor en los niños, se pretende que los oncólogos pediatras y los demás profesionales de la salud cuenten con toda la información y los argumentos necesarios para aliviar el dolor, mejorar la calidad de la vida y atenuar la angustia de los pacientes y de sus familias...read more
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9789243545127 | World Health Organization, December 31, 1999, cover price $21.60 | About this edition: Este libro constituye una guÃa exhaustiva sobre el alivio del dolor y de los demás sÃntomas de los niños aquejados de cáncer.
Product Description: This book, commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) and written by international experts, provides consensus views on the most important issues related to allergic hypersensitivities. The text details predictive testing, diagnosis, epidemiological monitoring of intervention measures, sources of sensitizing agents, and mechanisms of action...read more
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9780849392269 | CRC Pr I Llc, January 1, 1996, cover price $297.00 | About this edition: This book, commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) and written by international experts, provides consensus views on the most important issues related to allergic hypersensitivities.
Product Description: The role of animal feed in the production of safe food is recognized worldwide, and several events have underlined its impact on public health, feed and food trade, and food security. The Expert Meeting was convened to review current knowledge on animal feed and its impact on food safety, and provide orientation and advice on this matter to international organizations...read more
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9789251059029 | Food & Agriculture Org, December 30, 2008, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The role of animal feed in the production of safe food is recognized worldwide, and several events have underlined its impact on public health, feed and food trade, and food security.
Product Description: This book, the third in the series, reviews the use of antidotes to paracetamol poisoning. Paracetamol, or acetaminophen, is involved in a large proportion of all poisoning incidents. The introductory chapter discusses the management of paracetamol poisoning, including the factors influencing its toxicity, and compares the efficacy of, and indications for the use of, supportive care and specific antidotal therapy...read more
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9780521495769 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1995, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This book, the third in the series, reviews the use of antidotes to paracetamol poisoning.
Product Description: This third edition of the Application of the International Classification of Diseases to Dentistry and Stomatology (ICD-DA) provides a coherent system for coding and classifying data on oral and dental disorders, particularly when electronic or mechanical means of retrieval and analysis are used...read more
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9789241547475 | 3 edition (World Health Organization, January 30, 1994), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: This third edition of the Application of the International Classification of Diseases to Dentistry and Stomatology (ICD-DA) provides a coherent system for coding and classifying data on oral and dental disorders, particularly when electronic or mechanical means of retrieval and analysis are used.
Product Description: This third edition of the Application of the International Classification of Diseases to Dentistry and Stomatology (ICD-DA) provides a coherent system for coding and classifying data on oral and dental disorders, particularly when electronic or mechanical means of retrieval and analysis are used...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9789241544672 | 3 sub edition (World Health Organization, June 1, 1995), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This third edition of the Application of the International Classification of Diseases to Dentistry and Stomatology (ICD-DA) provides a coherent system for coding and classifying data on oral and dental disorders, particularly when electronic or mechanical means of retrieval and analysis are used.
Product Description: Gives specialists in the clinical neurosciences a detailed and authoritative instrument for coding virtually all recognized neurological conditions. Both neurological diseases and neurological manifestations of general diseases and injuries are included in this comprehensive coding tool...read more
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9789241547468 | 2 edition (World Health Organization, January 30, 1997), cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Gives specialists in the clinical neurosciences a detailed and authoritative instrument for coding virtually all recognized neurological conditions.
Product Description: Prepared under the auspices of WHO in collaboration with the World Bank and UNICEF under the authority of the Administrative Committee on Water Resources (ACCSCWR) Arsenic in Drinking Water provides a synthesis of current knowledge of a key concern of global drinking-water safety...read more
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9781900222662 | Intl Water Assn, December 30, 2010, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: Prepared under the auspices of WHO in collaboration with the World Bank and UNICEF under the authority of the Administrative Committee on Water Resources (ACCSCWR) Arsenic in Drinking Water provides a synthesis of current knowledge of a key concern of global drinking-water safety.
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