Nov 27, 2019
The overarching goal of the Investigating Disability factors and promoting Environmental Access for Healthy Living RRTC (IDEAL RRTC) is to promote the healthy aging of adults with long-term physical impairments and disabilities. This will be achieved by identifying...
Nov 27, 2019
Farm and rural youth experience noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) from a very young age. They also experience hearing health disparities compounded by lack of access to hearing health education. Intervention studies using technologies such as smartphone applications,...
Nov 27, 2019
Millions of American farm workers suffer from impaired communication, reduced self-esteem, and disrupted intimacy, a result of noise-induced hearing loss. This high-risk group is exposed to hazardous noise from a wide range of sources, including tractors, dryers,...
Nov 27, 2019
Trust plays a critical role in human-machine teaming. Poor trust calibration, i.e., a lack of correspondence between a person’s trust in a system and its actual capabilities, leads to inappropriate reliance on, or rejection of the technology. Trust also affects...
Nov 27, 2019
While exposure to high ambient temperature (i.e., heat) has long been recognized as a threat to public health, the burden of illness and death attributable to heat in the US remains high. In an effort to reduce heat- related mortality and morbidity, the US National...
Nov 27, 2019
Extreme heat is among the leading causes of weather-related deaths in the US. Electrically-powered air conditioning can reduce heat exposure and thus protect human health. Due to rising demand and more frequent severe weather, electrical blackouts have become...
Nov 27, 2019
Workers are exposed every day to various hazardous volatile organic/inorganic compounds (VOCs/VICs) that can affect their safety and long-term health. Gas chromatography (GC) has long been considered to be the most promising and most commonly used method to analyze...
Nov 27, 2019
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) such as coronary heart disease and hypertension are the leading cause of mortality in Sweden and the European Union. CVD risk is significantly influenced by the physical, social, and occupational environment (2014). Noise exposure is a...
Nov 27, 2019
The Apple Hearing Study is a partnership between the University of Michigan and Apple to study of sound exposure and its impact on hearing health. This groundbreaking study will advance our understanding of how hearing could be impacted over time by exposure to sound...
Nov 27, 2019
The overall objective of The West Africa-Michigan CHARTER II for GEOHealth is to build upon long- standing, extensive occupational and environmental health (OEH) research and training collaborations between academic and government partner institutions in Ghana, as...
