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Evaluating Interventions To Reduce Lead Poisoning Among Vulnerable Population: A Systematic Review, Erin Cutts, Katelyn Mann, Erica Urbina, Alyssa Paterson, Angela Ekwonye
Evaluating Interventions To Reduce Lead Poisoning Among Vulnerable Population: A Systematic Review, Erin Cutts, Katelyn Mann, Erica Urbina, Alyssa Paterson, Angela Ekwonye
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BackgroundLead poisoning occurs when the health or bodily functions of an individual are adversely affected. The population at high-risk for lead poisoning include primarily vulnerable populations, such as low-income minority groups, children, women who are pregnant, elderly, and the immunocompromised. ObjectiveThis systematic review seeks to determine effective interventions to reduce lead exposure and ultimately blood lead levels (BLLs) in the vulnerable population. MethodsSources for this systematic review were retrieved from Medline, CINAHL, EBSCO. The keywords yielded the most relevant articles to our topic were “Lead AND Intervention study OR Randomized control study”. A total of 30 articles were generated. Eleven …
The Health Effects Of Fetal Mercury Exposure: A Systematic Review., Addison Mommsen, Raw Raen, De Paw, Georgie Kinsman, Angela Ekwonye
The Health Effects Of Fetal Mercury Exposure: A Systematic Review., Addison Mommsen, Raw Raen, De Paw, Georgie Kinsman, Angela Ekwonye
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BackgroundAccording to World Health Organization (WHO), mercury is one of the top ten chemicals that pose a public health concern. More than 600,000 newborns per year experience in utero mercury exposures. Although mercury exposure can affect anyone, the burden is unequally placed on certain populations where exposure is high due to high consumption of fish or those in close proximity to factories. Objective This review seeks to determine and assess the health effects of fetal mercury exposure through a systematic review of current literature.MethodsGoogle Scholar, PubMed, and ScienceDirect were used to find articles relevant to our study on the health …