Hospital Pollution (Environmental Management) Articles

Does Noise Pollution cause stress?

In October 2018 the World Health Organisation (WHO) published their findings from an international investigation into how much noise affects us, including asking 'Does noise pollution cause stress'. It concluded it is one of the top environmental hazards to both physical and mental health and well-being in the European Region. Noise pollution can be defined as unwanted or excessive sound that ...

Apr. 11, 2018

By Pulsar Instruments Plc

Lumen Recommendations for Common and Industrial Work Spaces

Lumen Recommendations for Common and Industrial Work Spaces Light brightness requirements for common and industrial spaces differ greatly. To achieve consistent, bright environments, the fixture’s luminous flux (or lumen [lm], which is the SI unit of luminous flux) must be taken into consideration. By definition, the term “luminous flux” (lx) refers to the total amount of light ...

Apr. 19, 2017

By Larson Electronics LLC

Intrinsic kinetics for fixed bed bioreactor in hospital wastewater treatment

Variation in hospital wastewater (HWW) pollutants and differences with municipal wastewater (MWW), make the use of biokinetic coefficients obtained from activated sludge in the MWW treatment unprofitable for designing, modeling and evaluation of biological processes for HWW treatment. Since this study was conducted to evaluate the performance and biokinetic coefficients of a fixed bed ...

Aug. 26, 2016

By IWA Publishing

Life cycle assessment comparison of photocatalytic coating and air purifier

This paper presents a comparison of two very different options for removal of undesirable microorganisms and airborne pollutants from the indoor environment of hospitals, schools, homes and other enclosed spaces using air purifiers and photocatalytic coatings based on nano titanium dioxide (TiO2). Both products were assessed by Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology from cradle to grave. The ...

Apr. 15, 2016

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Noise in Europe 2014

Noise pollution is a growing environmental concern. It is caused by a varied number of sources and is widely present not only in the busiest urban environments, it is also pervading once natural environments. The adverse effects can be found in the well-being of exposed human populations, in the health and distribution of wildlife on the land and in the sea, in the abilities of our children to ...

Dec. 19, 2014

By European Environment Agency (EEA)

Evaluation of air pollution, local meteorology and urban public health

The relationship between meteorological conditions and air pollution was assessed as a plausible explanation for respiratory health problems in Newark, New Jersey on the US east coast. Pollutants in both particle (PM2.5 and PM10) and gas phase (O3) were collected and analysed. We find that PM2.5 concentrations decreased by -30.8% (95% CI: -43.2%, -15.8%) when the prevailing westerly wind speeds ...

Dec. 3, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

Comparative and integrative environmental assessment of advanced wastewater treatment processes based on an average removal of pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceuticals are normally barely removed by conventional wastewater treatments. Advanced technologies as a post-treatment, could prevent these pollutants reaching the environment and could be included in a centralized treatment plant or, alternatively, at the primary point source, e.g. hospitals. In this study, the environmental impacts of different options, as a function of several advanced ...

Nov. 20, 2012

By IWA Publishing

Modeling of hospital wastewater pollution by pharmaceuticals: first results of Mediflux study carried out in three French hospitals

A study has been carried out in three French hospitals in order to assess and model the pharmaceutical load in hospital wastewater and its impact in WWTP. This study, called Mediflux, consisted of three successive steps: first, an original prioritization procedure developed in our laboratory enabled us to select a list of relevant molecules from different Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) ...

Dec. 1, 2010

By IWA Publishing

Characteristics and expected health implications of annual PM10 concentrations in Athens, Greece

Several characteristics of the annual PM10 concentrations in the Athens conurbation, together with the expected health implications, are investigated using data from the Athens network of monitoring stations. Annual PM10 concentrations show a decreasing trend; however, concentration levels are still high, exceeding the current EU air quality standard at four monitoring stations and the Air ...

Mar. 18, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Urban Heat Island and Air Pollution—An Emerging Role for Hospital Respiratory Admissions in an Urban Area

The aim of the study discussed here was to determine the associations among the urban heat island (UHI), air quality, and hospital respiratory admissions in the warm center of an urban area. The authors collected and analyzed the data regarding air quality parameters, meteorological parameters, and the daily hospital respiratory admissions in the Taichung metropolis in the autumns of 2003 and ...

Jan. 31, 2010

By National Environmental Health Association (NEHA)

Evaluation of the combined effects of binary mixtures of sodium hypochlorite and surfactants against Daphnia magna Straus

Detergents and disinfectants have been identified as the most probable products that are responsible for the ecotoxicity of hospital effluents. This study was carried out to evaluate the acute toxicity and the combined effects of binary mixtures of sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) and three detergents (CTAB, SDS, TX-100) used in hospital medium, on Daphnia magna. Each binary mixture was prepared in ...

Mar. 10, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

Methodologies for incorporation of synergistic effects in the calculation of the Pollutant Standards Index

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed the Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) in order to provide the public with an overall assessment of daily air quality. PSI values are determined from measured concentrations of five criteria air pollutants carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide, and particulate matter (PM-10). In general, the PSI can be considered a ...

Jan. 26, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers

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