INDEX
Health care waste disposal, 440
antibiotics and other
medicines, 442
assessment of current process,
443–446
burial, 429, 438–439, 441, 442
chemicals used to clean and
disinfect, 440
community solutions to, 447
leach pit, how to make, 439
liquid waste, 439–440
mercury, 440–441
sharps barrel, how to
make, 439
waste pit, how to make,
438–439
Health centers
environmental justice and, 40-41
healing toxic injuries, 345–346
pesticide-exposure awareness
of, 264
request for non-PVC plastics,
342
sustainable, 40-41, 531
also see Health care
instruments disinfection;
Health care waste;
Medicines; Traditional
medicines and home
remedies
Health walks, 16
Heart attacks, 506
Heating
home building techniques to
help with, 378–379
hot water, 538
ventilation and, 360
Heat stress, 472
Heavy metal poisoning
arsenic, 61, 97, 333
garden soils contaminated
with, 312, 369
malnutrition and, 222
mining and, 487–491
signs of, 337, 369
treatment for, 340
also see Lead; Mercury
Hemorrhagic dengue, 147
Hepatitis B and C, 420
Herbal medicine see Traditional
medicines and home
remedies
High blood pressure, tobacco
smoking and, 355
High-level disinfection, 428
High-voltage electric
transmission wires, 365,
527, 530
HIV and AIDS
dengue fever and, 147
food security and, 234
health care waste and
exposure to, 420, 421–422
malaria and, 144
malnutrition and, 222
mining camps and, 474
mold sensitivity, 358
mouth-to-mouth breathing
and, 557
needle and syringe cleaning
and, 435
oil camps and, 500
orphans of, farming training
for, 228
sustainable farming and, 281
tuberculosis and, 356, 481
Home gardens see Gardens
Homes, 349–385
allergies, 357–358
bednets, 143
cigarette smoking, 355
cleaning products, safer,
372–374
defined, 349
employment in, hazard
reduction, 376
fire safety, 365
food-borne illnesses,
preventing, 57, 375
fuels for cooking and heating,
363–364
furniture and fabrics, toxics
in, 372
health problems, generally,
350–351
lead poisoning, 368–370
pest control, natural, 366–367
pesticides, use of synthetic,
271–272, 366
planning with community,
384–385
renting vs. owning and, 349
resources for, 590–591
stoves, 353, 359–364
toxics in, 368–374
tuberculosis, 356
working for change in, 4, 353,
359, 374, 380, 384–385
also see Building and
building materials; Clean
energy; Fuels; Gardens;
Mosquito control;
Ventilation
Honey, for burns, 555
Hookworms, 51
Hormone disruptors, 325
Hormone-producing glands
pesticide exposures and, 263
toxic chemical exposures and,
323, 325
also see Reproductive health
Horses, compost and manure
of, 403
Hospice, 328
Hot water heating, 538
Human rights see Rights
Human waste, use of
biogas production, 540
also see Ecological sanitation
Hunger
causes of, 217, 231–234
GE foods and increase of, 237
tuberculosis danger and, 481
Hurricanes
food security and, 227
watershed damage and,
159, 163
Hydrochloric acid, 440
Hydrogen peroxide for
disinfection
disposal of, 440
with orange oil, 430
with white vinegar, 430
Hydropower, micro, 534–535
Hydropower, traditional see
Dams, large
I
Ibuprofen, 147
Illness
cleaning products causing,
372, 374
deforestation and, 28, 179
flame retardants causing, 372
food-borne, 57, 375
food security and, 222–223, 234
GE foods and, 41–43
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