Room 7231 Medical Sciences Building, except where noted. It is the Center of Excellence in human operations in space where engineers, scientists, and physicians work on ensuring success not only in Shuttle missions, but also in the development of the International Space Station, and of plans for a manned mission to Mars. It is the training base of the US astronaut corps, and the site of the Mission Control Center, but it is also the site of numerous other interesting facilities.
Astronauts are a select group of employees with unique occupational risks.
The Ecohealth Lecture Series is a 3-year annual lecture series organised through the Academic Fellowship of the International Development Research Centre of Canada. It seeks to promote awareness and discussion of an ecosystem approach to human health, based on transdisciplinary concepts, gender-based analyses and participative methods to improve ecosystem management. Data are presented from qualitative interviews with South African farm workers and public health officials to illustrate the divergent constructions of pesticide-related illness, with farm workers voicing far deeper and more complex elaborations of the reasons for poisoning. In addition, poor conditions associated with high background levels of general ill-health may invert the traditional healthy worker effect, adding an additional burden to those most highly at risk to pesticide morbidity. At all levels, gender plays a critical role in modifying the way in which exposures to pesticides occur and impacts are experienced.