Anybody who gets a signal on their mobile phone in their home, is in the vicinity of a mobile phone base tower. How close are you to the base station? The answer to this question will likely impact your family’s health, especially if you live within 400 meters of a base station.
A German study published in 2004 titled ‘The Influence of Being Physically Near to a Cell Phone Transmission Mast on the Incidence of Cancer’, showed a 3 times higher risk of developing cancer for people who lived within 400 meters of a cell phone tower for a period of five years.A similar Spanish study found that people living in the close vicinity of a cell phone tower had the following health problems :
Depression increased by up to 64-fold.
Fatigue increased by up to 37-fold.
Appetite Loss increased by up to 25-fold.
Those health effects apply to adults, children can be expected to have even more severe health issues due to the increased absorption of the same radiation levels.
The health impact of RF radiation needs more research. In my opinion, one of the reasons that this is not happing is the enormous economical value that is associated with mobile communication industry and the connectivity it provides. However, both brain cancer and leukemia have been associated with microwave radiation [4][5][6]. Keeping this and the explosive growth of mobile phones in mind, one wonders what the connection is between RF radiation and these cancers. According to the US Natural Resources Defence Council
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
A Article About Cildrens Using Mobile
The Children's Health Express, a mobile clinic program of Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas and a program of the Children's Health Fund, is rolling into the Austin community to deliver primary and preventive pediatric health care to children without access to critically needed health care.
"The Children's Health Express is a state-of-the-art mobile unit that will break down barriers that contribute to the lack of health care in children who may not have health insurance or a permanent medical provider," said Ava Wood, director of Ambulatory Services, Dell Children's Medical Center. "Our highly skilled medical team will include a board certified pediatrician, a family nurse practitioner, a licensed vocational nurse, and a licensed medical social worker to address the mental health needs."
The Children's Health Fund supports projects throughout the country such as the Children's Health Express which assure that underserved children have a medical home - a proven model of comprehensive health and family centered health care," said Arturo Brito, chief medical officer and executive vice president of Children's Health Fund. "We are thrilled to partner with Dell Children's Medical Center, one of the premiere children's hospitals in the country to bring this exemplary model of care to thousands of families in Austin."
The services provided by the mobile unit include:
• Well Child Exams
• Immunizations
• Acute Illness
• Sports Physicals
It's anticipated that 1,600 patients will visit the mobile unit in the coming year. The two exam rooms in the unit will allow the medical staff to see a large number of patients.
Beginning in the fall, the Children's Health Express, in collaboration with the Children's Health Fund, will visit McBee, T.A. Brown, Houston and Read Elementary one day per week. These schools are in areas where few medical resources are available.
"The Children's Medical Center Foundation and Dell Children's express their deepest appreciation to all of the donors who have supported this meaningful program since it was established in 1995," said Missy Wood, executive director, Children's Medical Center Foundation of Central Texas. "We are especially grateful to the Carl C. Anderson, Sr. and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation for their donation in support of the health and well-being of Central Texas children and teens. The Anderson Foundation made a very generous grant to Children's Medical Center Foundation which enabled Dell Children's to purchase this new, beautiful state of the art customized mobile health van."
Children's Health Fund
Because millions of children in America aren't getting the health care they need, the Children's Health Fund (CHF) is committed to providing health care to the nation's most medically under-served children and their families through the development and support of innovative medical programs, response to public health crises, and the promotion of guaranteed access to appropriate health care for all children.
Founded in 1987 by singer/songwriter Paul Simon, and pediatrician/advocate Irwin Redlener, MD, the CHF's health projects have provided more than 1.6 million patient visits. CHF partners with major academic medical centers to deliver health care to disadvantaged children and families, via state-of-the-art mobile medical units, in both rural and urban areas across the country.
"The Children's Health Express is a state-of-the-art mobile unit that will break down barriers that contribute to the lack of health care in children who may not have health insurance or a permanent medical provider," said Ava Wood, director of Ambulatory Services, Dell Children's Medical Center. "Our highly skilled medical team will include a board certified pediatrician, a family nurse practitioner, a licensed vocational nurse, and a licensed medical social worker to address the mental health needs."
The Children's Health Fund supports projects throughout the country such as the Children's Health Express which assure that underserved children have a medical home - a proven model of comprehensive health and family centered health care," said Arturo Brito, chief medical officer and executive vice president of Children's Health Fund. "We are thrilled to partner with Dell Children's Medical Center, one of the premiere children's hospitals in the country to bring this exemplary model of care to thousands of families in Austin."
The services provided by the mobile unit include:
• Well Child Exams
• Immunizations
• Acute Illness
• Sports Physicals
It's anticipated that 1,600 patients will visit the mobile unit in the coming year. The two exam rooms in the unit will allow the medical staff to see a large number of patients.
Beginning in the fall, the Children's Health Express, in collaboration with the Children's Health Fund, will visit McBee, T.A. Brown, Houston and Read Elementary one day per week. These schools are in areas where few medical resources are available.
"The Children's Medical Center Foundation and Dell Children's express their deepest appreciation to all of the donors who have supported this meaningful program since it was established in 1995," said Missy Wood, executive director, Children's Medical Center Foundation of Central Texas. "We are especially grateful to the Carl C. Anderson, Sr. and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation for their donation in support of the health and well-being of Central Texas children and teens. The Anderson Foundation made a very generous grant to Children's Medical Center Foundation which enabled Dell Children's to purchase this new, beautiful state of the art customized mobile health van."
Children's Health Fund
Because millions of children in America aren't getting the health care they need, the Children's Health Fund (CHF) is committed to providing health care to the nation's most medically under-served children and their families through the development and support of innovative medical programs, response to public health crises, and the promotion of guaranteed access to appropriate health care for all children.
Founded in 1987 by singer/songwriter Paul Simon, and pediatrician/advocate Irwin Redlener, MD, the CHF's health projects have provided more than 1.6 million patient visits. CHF partners with major academic medical centers to deliver health care to disadvantaged children and families, via state-of-the-art mobile medical units, in both rural and urban areas across the country.
Socially disadvantaged
In poor countries such as Colombia childhood often ends early, and with it the time of carefree play. This has serious consequences, since childhood play provides people with key physical and social skills for later life. This issue galvanized Bayer Colombia into action. In September 2005 the company, in conjunction with the children's charity “Día del Niño” (children's day), started to send a mobile ludoteca (play bus) into Colombian towns and villages. Since then the brightly painted play bus has been doing its daily rounds. It mainly visits children who have been subjected to violence, have run away from home, or are growing up without a formal education.
The aim of the initiative is to use playful means to stimulate children physically and mentally. Topics dealt with include the health of children and animals, human values, cultivation and protection of plants, and even scientific issues.
Bayer Colombia reaches 2,000 children per month with the initiative, which operates under the patronage of the wife of the Colombian president. The experiences will be included in an academically supported study. This is intended to provide information on playing habits across the regions of Colombia – and draw attention to the fact that children have a right to spend time playing with their parents. The first results show to what extent action is required. In some areas parents only play with their children for three hours per week. Children in rural areas hardly play at all because they are needed to help with work in the fields.
“We believe that our business goes hand-in-hand with a responsibility for the communities we work in, and that we should be committed to ensuring a better life for these,” says Dominique Dorison, Senior Bayer Representative in Colombia. “The Bayer ludoteca is a long-term program that will provide us with interesting information about childhood in our communities. This will help us to support people's general development – and in doing so help improve the quality of life.”
The aim of the initiative is to use playful means to stimulate children physically and mentally. Topics dealt with include the health of children and animals, human values, cultivation and protection of plants, and even scientific issues.
Bayer Colombia reaches 2,000 children per month with the initiative, which operates under the patronage of the wife of the Colombian president. The experiences will be included in an academically supported study. This is intended to provide information on playing habits across the regions of Colombia – and draw attention to the fact that children have a right to spend time playing with their parents. The first results show to what extent action is required. In some areas parents only play with their children for three hours per week. Children in rural areas hardly play at all because they are needed to help with work in the fields.
“We believe that our business goes hand-in-hand with a responsibility for the communities we work in, and that we should be committed to ensuring a better life for these,” says Dominique Dorison, Senior Bayer Representative in Colombia. “The Bayer ludoteca is a long-term program that will provide us with interesting information about childhood in our communities. This will help us to support people's general development – and in doing so help improve the quality of life.”
Mobie Youth
New data from research consultancy "mobileYouth", whose clients include Vodafone, Nokia, Orange and Disney, cites the number of under 16s in the UK owning a mobile phone will grow to 5.5 million (an increase of nearly half a million from the previous year Whilst the growth in the numbers of youngsters owning mobile phones slowed down in 2004 as the market reached maturity, growth in 2004 was driven by primary school (5-10yr old) children getting their first phone. Amid the current controversy surrounding mobile ownership by the very young, mobileYouth data shows that the driving force behind young children owning mobile phones is not the mobile industry, but the parents. Most have cited security concerns as one of the main reasons why their children should own a mobile phone. The mobile industry still has a long way to go to satisfy the growing need for "mobile parenting". One of the key growth application areas focused on the very young in 2005 will be the emergent mobile tracking sector that allows parents to track the whereabouts of their children at any given time. Mobile Youth recommends that the mobile industry take measures to demonstrate they are catering for the needs of the parents rather than the pester power of children during 2005 by educating guardians as to the potential advantages and disadvantages of these technologies.
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