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Williston, Vt: Evaluating Child Lead Screening Rates And A Potential Exposure, Ethan R. Harlow
Williston, Vt: Evaluating Child Lead Screening Rates And A Potential Exposure, Ethan R. Harlow
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
The CDC recommends that all 1-and 2-year-old children be screened for lead and that the most effective measure for mitigating lead poisoning in children is through primary prevention. This study evaluates lead screening rates at a Family Medicine Clinic in Williston, VT and seeks to gather community perspective on a potential failure of primary prevention in the town.
The Energy Basis Of Food Security, Eric Garza
The Energy Basis Of Food Security, Eric Garza
Food Systems Summit 2014
Food security includes elements of food availability, access and use. In the complex system that is our global food system, many variables influence an individual’s ability to achieve food security, but given that many people access food through economic markets food prices have come to be a vital component of food security. Food prices are influenced by many factors, but among these are fuel prices. For the last decade trends in food prices have tracked those of fuel prices consistently, and just as fuel prices have generally increased since 2005 food prices have done the same. Rising and increasingly volatile …