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Through a structured approach that allows urban projects to be observed with a holistic view of health, health impact assessment (HIA) encourages partnerships and anticipates health issues as early as possible in the decision-making process of urban programs. The appropriation of the approach by communities, the integration of recommendations and their follow-up are apprehended through the feedback from three HIA carried out in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It appears that the structuring of proposals according to political criteria and technical feasibility is a very effective decision-making tool for elected officials and technicians.

Exploring mobility in Italian Neolithic and Copper Age communities.

As a means for investigating human mobility during late the Neolithic to the Copper Age in central and southern Italy, this study presents a novel dataset of enamel oxygen and carbon isotope values (δOca and δCca) from the carbonate fraction of biogenic apatite for one hundred and twenty-six individual teeth coming from two Neolithic and eight Copper Age communities. The measured δOca values suggest a significant role of local sources in the water inputs to the body water, whereas δCca values indicate food resources, principally based on C plants. Both δCca and δOca ranges vary substantially when samples are broken down into local populations.

[An innovative approach to local development of health promotion to reduce social inequalities in health].

Introduction: The city of Villeurbanne has made the political choice to reduce social inequalities in health (SIH). The Public Health Department wanted to assess the health impact in the context of this project. The main objective was to analyse the links between urban development and health in order to identify the impact of the urban project on health and to make recommendations to reduce physical inactivity of children.

A low dose of the alpha2 agonist clonidine ameliorates the visual attention and spatial working memory deficits produced by phencyclidine administration to rats.

Rationale: Psychotomimetic N-methyl-D-aspartate/glutamate receptor antagonists, such as phencyclidine (PCP), have been shown to produce a spectrum of behavioral, neurochemical and anatomical changes in rats that are relevant to aspects of schizophrenia, including impairments of working memory and visual attention. The alpha(2) noradrenergic receptor agonist clonidine prevents some of the behavioral effects of NMDA antagonists, suggesting that monoaminergic systems mediate some aspects of these deficits.

Objectives: We sought to determine the ability of clonidine to modify the PCP-induced deficits of visual attention and spatial working memory in rats.

Municipal waste incinerators: air and biological monitoring of workers for exposure to particles, metals, and organic compounds.

Aims: To evaluate occupational exposure to toxic pollutants at municipal waste incinerators (MWIs).

Methods: Twenty nine male subjects working near the furnaces in two MWIs, and 17 subjects not occupationally exposed to combustion generated pollutants were studied. Individual air samples were taken throughout the shift; urine samples were collected before and after.