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Population at Risk
Population at Risk: - A population subgroup that is more likely to be exposed to a chemical, or is more sensitive to the chemical, than is the general population. [Environmental Protection Agency] News archive for Population at Risk:: |
FOXBusiness..."The population at risk is huge, and just by embarking on a program of lifestyle modification with reasonable amounts of weight loss and regular exercise we
International funding for malaria control is US$1 billion yearly ... - Jul 31, 2008
TropIKA,Together these data allowed them to generate an estimate of the annual malaria funding allocation per capita population at risk.
Half the population at risk to cyber crime - Jul 8, 2008
Pocket-lint.co.uk,A new study says that almost half of the UK population is at risk because we are slack at updating our computer security. The research was carried out by
Study finds spending on malaria prevention is woefully inadequate - Jul 22, 2008
guardian.co.uk,This region is home to 47% of the global population at risk. But it received 17% of funding from the GFATM and 24% of funding from non-GFATM sources.
Anglers get blame for putting sea birds at risk - Jul 18, 2008
Galloway Today,ANGLERS fishing from rocks at the Mull of Galloway are putting the breeding sea bird population at risk, it was claimed this week. The main breeding season
City sets focus on dropouts - Jul 30, 2008
Boston Globe,Mangion would also like to see the task force explore how to better serve transient students, another population at risk of dropping out.
Trans fats new focus of coronary concerns - Aug 1, 2008
The West Australian,...“The issue here isn’t the total population at risk, we’re talking about the at-risk population because some people wouldn’t know a trans fat if they fell
GLOBAL: What climate change does - The 2nd in a three-part series - Jul 31, 2008
IRINnews.org,The population at risk of increased water stress in Africa will reach between 75 million and 250 million by the 2020s, and 350 million to 600 million people
Exotic invaders 'put local birds at risk' - Jul 15, 2008
ArabianBusiness.com,...by Andy Sambidge on Wednesday, 16 July 2008 FEATHERED THREAT: The Rose-ringed parakeet is one of the non-native birds putting local population at risk.
Four horsemen of the apocalypse - Jul 8, 2008
The Australian,The population at risk from coastal flooding in some Chinese coastal cities may also increase as Garnaut suggests, but this will mostly be due to population
Buncefield investigation calls for planning changes - Jul 15, 2008
PlanningResource (subscription),Taf Powell, manager of the Buncefield investigation said: The system should in future consider the total population at risk - societal risk - at each new
Limerick doctors link under-age sex and cancer - Jul 12, 2008
Times Online,It is showing there is a population at risk under 25.� Last month Tony O’Brien of the National Cancer Screening Service said the screening programme will be
Uranium contaminates water supply - Jul 11, 2008
NEWS.com.au,Sortir du nucleaire (End nuclear power) had accused Areva of withholding information about the spill and "deliberately putting the population at risk".
As Diseases Make Comeback, Why Aren't All Kids Vaccinated? - Jul 16, 2008
Popular Mechanics,People who do not vaccinate are very unresponsible in the sense that they put the whole population at risk. Sure, and if anyone gives a vaccine and it
Israel-Hamas standoff deepens water woes - Jul 21, 2008
Christian Science Monitor,...but also the aquifer below Gaza, causing a severe shortage of potable water and putting the population at risk for a range of illnesses.
French authorities keep water ban after nuclear leak - Jul 9, 2008
Canada.com,...group Sortir du nucleaire (End nuclear power) accused Areva of withholding information about the spill and "deliberately putting the population at risk.
Climate-change crunch time, says Van Schalkwyk - Jul 21, 2008
Creamer Media's Engineering News,The proportion of the African population at risk of water stress and scarcity could increase by 18% in 25 years, from 47% in 2000 to 65% in 2025,
Skunk determined to be carrying rabies - Jul 22, 2008
Southwest Virginia Today,While Honaker said that humans are at risk for contracting the disease, he said the biggest population at risk is unvaccinated pets, especially if they’re
Fourteen million face starvation in east Africa, Oxfam - Jul 24, 2008
Radio France Internationale,This, along with drought and mass displacement put 2.6 million people - 35 per cent of the population - at risk. In drought-stricken parts of Ethiopia,
County must learn from Buncefield report - Jul 23, 2008
Western Telegraph,But, he added: “The system should in future consider the total population at risk — societal risk — at each new development application.
Method could cut number of vaccinations by half - Jul 9, 2008
physicsworld.com,Chen and colleagues examined the effectiveness of their “equal-graph partitioning� strategy by plotting the fraction of a population at risk of infection
Van Schalkwyk paints grim picture of climate change - Jul 21, 2008
Business Day,The proportion of the African population at risk and subject to water stress and scarcity could increase by 18% in 25 years, from 47% in 2000 to 65% in 2025
URBAN THOUGHT COLLECTIVE: An Obama Era Question for the Black Family - Jul 11, 2008
Eurweb.com,...faced by a majority of black households. One doesn't have to look hard at Black America to see problems that clearly put our population at risk
DISC BLUNDER CHIEF GETS A £2M PENSION - Jul 15, 2008
Daily Star,The blunder left half the population at risk from identity fraud. But yesterday it emerged that when Mr Gray left the post, he became eligible for early
Muny, Gonzo and Harleys - Jul 16, 2008
Austin American-Statesman,...do we really want to put another segment of the American population at risk of the FBI's sloppy, misguided, harmful investigations?
Many Hispanics With Diabetes Not Receiving Eye Exams, Unaware of ... - Jul 14, 2008
DG News..."The frequency of dilated eye examinations among people with diabetes was unacceptable and places this population at risk of visual loss.
G8 Failure on Food & Biofuels - Jul 7, 2008
Tri State Observer,G8 failure on food prices, biofuels, and climate change places 1.7 billion people - 25% of the world's population - at risk of hunger, warns anti-poverty
Africa: Climate Change Impact Report - 03 Dec 2007
AllAfrica.com,The population at risk of increased water stress in Africa is projected to be between 75-250 million and 350-600 million people by the 2020s and 2050s,
Ethiopia launches US President’s Malaria Initiative - 03 Dec 2007
Nazret.com,Almost 75 percent of the landmass is malarious with 68 percent of the population at risk of contracting malaria. “One million last year alone died on the
UN to target illegal caviar trade - 03 Dec 2007
International Animal Rescue,A new database is to be set up to help tackle the illegal trade in caviar that has put the wild sturgeon population at risk of extinction.
Report: Sex Main Cause of HIV in China - Nov 29, 2007
The Associated Press...women were at prenatal clinics, as well as projecting the AIDS rates of certain high-risk groups like drug users to the entire population at risk.
90 percent of population at risk for shingles - Nov 19, 2007
News-Leader.com,This week's expert: Dr. Maria C. Dela Rosa is a doctor of internal medicine at the St. John's Senior Health Center. Q. What is shingles?
Late preterm infants can face numerous complications, often ... - Nov 30, 2007
AAP News (subscription)...monitoring and follow-up of late preterm infants are included in a new clinical report, `Late Preterm' Infants: A Population at Risk ( Pediatrics.2007
Report: Sex main cause of HIV in China - Nov 29, 2007
Kansas City Star,...women were at prenatal clinics, as well as projecting the AIDS rates of certain high-risk groups like drug users to the entire population at risk.
Up to 50m Chinese face Aids risk - Nov 30, 2007
South China Morning Post (subscription),UN resident co-ordinator Khalid Malik said the large portion of the Chinese population at risk of HIV/Aids underscored the magnitude of the problem,
For survival of environmental refugees - Nov 29, 2007
The Daily Star,A calculation says, major population at risk in the globally warmed world are 77 million in China, 28 million in Bangladesh, 23 million in India and 15
Two discs, 25m names and a lot of questions - Nov 23, 2007
Guardian Unlimited,...bank accounts and national insurance numbers, were lost in the post on October 18, leaving half the British population at risk of large scale fraud.
Climate change to take heavy toll on Bangladesh - Nov 27, 2007
The Daily Star,The global figure of the population at risk cited by the report is 600 million. Forty-seven percent of children in Bangladesh are already malnourished.
PPP launches 5 Es election manifesto - Nov 30, 2007
The Post,For population at risk, the party has devised Targeted Poverty Programmes and put in place a series of Employment Plans and Just Labour Policies.
Cowboy Capitalism - Nov 23, 2007
Mauritius Times,It is not in the interest of the MSPA members or of the IPPs to be putting the entire population at risk by defending their private positions against all
Silent victims and the billion euro question - Nov 30, 2007
Irish Medical News,A key factor in these deaths has been the absolute failure of the system to deliver a screening service to the target population at risk from this very
Thermography technology can detect changes early - Nov 27, 2007
The Citizen.com,By performing thermography years before conventional mammography, a selected patient population at risk can be monitored more carefully,
MAURITIUS: Clean needles out of reach for injecting drug users - Nov 28, 2007
Plus News,In the meantime, needle exchange projects like the one in Tombeau Bay are slowly trying to meet the needs of a population at risk.
Number of AIDS cases overestimated - Nov 20, 2007
The Australian,...the numbers of infected pregnant women at antenatal clinics, as well as projecting the AIDS rates of high-risk groups to the entire population at risk.
Balochistan's forgotten disaster - Nov 13, 2007
The News - International,Vulnerability analysis, like identification of the population at risk in and around Mirani Dam and settlements in floodway and flood plain were completely
Pesticide ban has support - Nov 28, 2007
The Chronicle Journal,But if we are putting the rest of the population at risk by killing dandelions, why would we want to do that.� Tobey Meyer, community development specialist
Temperatures rising - Nov 19, 2007
Malaysia Star,...of coral reefs in next 30 years; flooding of Mekong and Red river deltas; 2.6 to 18.8 million people of the coastal population at risk of flood by 2100.
Crises of identity: why number of fraud cases is likely to rise - Nov 22, 2007
The Herald,Now, with around half the population at risk through the unprecedented government blunder which resulted in the loss of confidential data on 25 million
Hepatitis B vaccination scheme call - Nov 10, 2007
The Press AssociationGrowing travel and migration also put the UK population at risk of exposure from abroad. Up to 40% of infections are transmitted from mother to child during
Children ‘should be vaccinated against hepatitis B’ - Nov 13, 2007
The News - International,He writes: “The huge global burden of infection means that growing travel and migration in the 21st century is putting the UK population at risk of exposure
Health-care worker crisis seen in California by 2020 - Nov 6, 2007
Los Angeles Daily News,...respiratory therapists and other health-care workers by 2020, putting the health of a growing senior population at risk, a study released Monday found.
Duet singers highlight benefits of condom - Nov 4, 2007
Gorkhapatra,The population at risk needs education and awareness to cope with the problems. Chief at the Health Service Committee of NCRS Lalit Jung Shahi said that
Awareness and willingness to seek help key in fighting ... - Nov 13, 2007
York News Times (subscription),For example, in the United States 42.1 million or 36.6 percent of women live with cardiovascular disease and the population at risk is even larger.
On a Mission to End the Silence: New Organization Opens ... - Nov 7, 2007
Earthtimes,The population at risk - working men - is relatively reluctant to talk openly, and as we know, silence can breed misconceptions and risk.
PM to Britain: Your Data is in the Mail - Nov 21, 2007
Radar Online,British Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologized today for a mail snafu that has put half the country's population at risk of identity theft.
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