Recognizing the dietetics profession.
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Jane White
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Environmental monitoring of carbaryl applied in urban areas to control the glassy-winged sharpshooter in California.
Carbaryl insecticide was applied by ground spray to plants in urban areas to control a serious insect pest the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca coagulata (Say), newly introduced in California. To assure there are no adverse impacts to human health and the environment from the carbaryl applications, carbaryl was monitored in tank mixtures, air, surface water, foliage and backyard fruits and vegetables. Results from the five urban areas - Porterville, Fresno, Rancho Cordova, Brentwood and Chico - showed there were no significant human exposures or impacts on the environment. Spray tank concentrations ranged from 0.1-0.32%. Carbaryl concentrations in air ranged from none detected to 1.12 microg m(-3), well below the interim health screening level in air of 51.7 microg m(-3). There were three detections of carbaryl in surface water near application sites: 0.125 ppb (parts per billion) from a water treatment basin; 6.94 ppb from a gold fish pond; and 1737 ppb in a rain runoff sample collected from a drain adjacent to a sprayed site. The foliar dislodgeable residues ranged from 1.54-7.12 microg cm(-2), comparable to levels reported for safe reentry of 2.4 to 5.6 microg cm(-2) for citrus. Carbaryl concentrations in fruits and vegetables ranged from no detectable amounts to 7.56 ppm, which were below the U.S. EPA tolerance, allowable residue of 10 ppm.
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Social work in restructuring hospitals: program management five years later.
Hospital restructuring in North America has involved re-engineering, downsizing, reorganizing, and remodeling of traditional hierarchical functional organizations into multisite programmatic conglomerates. The implications for professional disciplines have been dramatic in that departments such as social work have been dismantled and social work practice has come under the domain of program managers representing multiple disciplines. In this study 12 hospitals in Ontario, Canada, that were studied in the early stages of restructuring in 1995 expanded to 22 sites by 1999. The effect of the mergers and moves to program management on the social work profession was examined. The key findings are that social work line positions were not lost, but accountability and recruitment were no longer in the hands of the discipline. These findings suggest that it is more critical now than ever for social workers to champion their contributions to health.
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