Dr Chrysanthus Chukwuma, Sr, Executive Director, Centre for Future-Oriented Studies, c/o 12 Mgbowo Street, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria, West Africa

List of publications:

Personal funding for these publications was circa 98%

• C. Chukwuma, Sr (1994): Health concepts, issues and experience in Abakaliki area, Nigeria. Environmental Health Perspectives, 102(10):854-6.
• -------------- (1995): Latent constraints for improved environmental health management in non-industrialised countries. Environmental Management & Health, 6(4):9-14.
• --------------- (1998): Environmental issues and our chemical world - the need for a multidimensional approach in environmental safety, health and management. Environmental Management & Health, 9(2-3):136-43.
• --------------- (2000):Environmental issues and our chemical world - the need for a multidimensional approach in environmental safety, health and managemnet.Cambridge Scientific Abstracts' (CSA's) "Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management.
• --------------- (1995): Environmental, developmental and health perspectives in Egypt. Environmental Management & Health, 6(1):38-46.
• --------------- (1996): Perspectives for a sustainable society. Environmental Management & Health, 7(5):6-20.
• --------------- (1996): Defining environmental management and planning policy in Nigeria. International Journal of Agriculture Medicine & Rural Health, 20(1):13-18.
• --------------- (1994):Environment & Development: A Social Evaluation Survey in Nigeria in 1992. International Journal of Environmental Education & Information, 13(2):183-208.
• --------------- (1995): ibid Informatics Abstracts, Institute of Scientific Information, Moscow.
• --------------- (1994): Environment & Development: Approaches to strategies for the improvement of human well-being in Abakaliki area, Nigeria. Environmental Conservation, 21(4):359-61.
• --------------- (1995): Administrative policy and co-operative responsibility for environmental protection and sustainable development in Nigeria. International Journal of Environmental Education & Information, 14(4):393-404.
• --------------- (1996): Undergirding environmental legislation and citizen participation in developing countries. International Journal of Environmental Education & Information, 15(3):319-330.
• --------------- (1997): ibid Informatics Abstract, Institute of Scientific Information, Moscow, 3.72.73.
• --------------- (1995): Social welfare and population dynamics in Egypt with particular reference to the status of women. International Journal of Environmental Education & Information, 14(1):45-62.
• --------------- (1995): Application of global concepts to the Nigerian food crisis. Economic Planning in Free Societies - Journal for Agriculture & Related Industries, 31(5):3-9.
• --------------- (1996): Book Review - Hunger 1995. Causes of Hunger: fifth annual report on the state of world hunger. Silver Spring, MD, USA, Bread of the World Institute, 1994; pp 141. Journal of Modern African Studies, vol. 34, no. 3.
• Dele Raheem & Chrysanthus Chukwuma, Sr (2001): Foods from cassava and their relevance to Nigeria, and other African countries. Agriculture & Human Values, 18(4): 383-390.
• C. Chukwuma, Sr (1996): Environmental impact assessment of development projects and natural resources - A viewpoint. International Journal of Environmental Studies, 50:187-200.
• --------------- (1993): The impacts of mining operations in Nigeria with particular reference to the Enyigba-Abakaliki area. International Journal of Environmental Education & Information, 12(4):321-36.
• --------------- (1995): Strategy for environmental impact assessment, planning and management of non-ferrous metal mining operations in Nigeria. Environmental Conservation, 22(3):261-3.
• --------------- (1993):Cadmium, lead & zinc from terrestrial plants in the Enyigba-Abakaliki lead & zinc mine: search for a monitoring plant species in trace element distribution. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology, 51(5):665-71.
• --------------- (1993): Comparison of the accumulation of cadmium, lead & zinc in edible & wild plant species in the derelict Enyigba-Abakaliki lead & zinc mine, Nigeria. Toxicology & Environmental Chemistry, 38:167-73.
• --------------- (1994):Contamination of soils and rice by heavy metals in the Enyigba-Abakaliki lead & zinc mine, Nigeria. Toxicology & Environmental Chemistry, 41:125-30.
• --------------- (1994): Evaluating baseline data for lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) in rice, yam, cassava, and guinea grass from cultivated soils in Nigeria. Toxicology & Environmental Chemistry, 45:45-56.
• --------------- (1995): Evaluating baseline data for copper, manganese, nickel, and zinc in rice, yam, cassava, and guinea grass from cultivated soils in Nigeria. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 53(1):47-61.
• --------------- (1995): ibid Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 56(1):71-74.
• --------------- (1996): Evaluating baseline data for trace elements, pH, organic matter content, and bulk density in agricultural soils in Nigeria. Water, Air & Soil Pollution, 86(1-4):13-34.
• --------------- (1995): A comparative study of cadmium, lead, zinc, pH, and bulk density from the Enyigba lead and zinc mine in two different seasons. Ecotoxicol & Environmental Safety, 31(3):246-9.
• --------------- (1997): Environmental lead exposure in Africa. Ambio, 26(6):399-403.
• --------------- (1997):Environmental lead exposure in Africa. November/December Earthlink, INFOTERRA/USA.
• --------------- (1998): Environmental and social consequences of metals and mines on water. International Journal of Environmental Studies, 54(1A):73-81.
• --------------- (1998): Development and implementation of environmental monitoring and information systems for water resources. Environmental Management Health, 9(4):153-9.
• --------------- (2000) : Land degradation and remediation in Nigeria: Current problems, implications, and modelling for future global change in agricultural and mining areas. International Journal of Environmental Studies - An IAIR Electronic Journal, ISSN 1097-7104, Vol. 3.
• ----------------(2001): Environmental health concepts and issues - A viewpoint. International Journal of Environmental Studies, vol 58, pp631-44.
• C. Chukwuma, Sr & P. Bjurulf (1990): A case study of the information-base needed for effective evaluation of primary health care programmes in Anambra State, Nigeria. International Journal of Health Sciences, 1(2):137-48.
• C. Chukwuma, Sr (1996): Comments on the environmental health implications of Acanthamoeba. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 6(1):49-54.
• C. Chukwuma, Sr (1996): Cryptosporidium: still a public health problem - A review. Nigeria Medical Journal, 30(1):6-10.
• --------------- (1996):Microsporidium in AIDS and HIV-infected patients - A perspective. East African Medical Journal, 73(1):74-8.
• C. Chukwuma, Sr (1996): Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in Sub-Saharan Africa: epidemiological, sociological and preventive perspectives. Scandinavian journal of development alternatives, 15(2):74-89.
• M.H. Makame & the DERI Study Group (1992): Type 1 diabetes, insulin & Africa. Diabetic Medicine, 9(6):571-3.
• E.S. Tull, M.H. Makame & the DERI Study Group (1992). Evaluation of type 1 diabetes in black African-heritage populations: no time for further neglect. Diabetic Medicine, 9(6):513-92.
• C. Chukwuma, Sr (1992): Comments on the clinical impact of hypertension in Type 1 diabetes. J Diabetes Complications, 6(197-202).
• C. Chukwuma, Sr & J. Tuomilehto (1993): Type 1 diabetes & the risk of coronary heart disease. Cardiovascular Risk Factors 3(2):129-37.
• --------------- (1993):Diabetes & the risk of stroke. J Diabetes Complications, 7(4):250-62.
• C. Chukwuma, Sr (1993): Type 1 diabetic nephropathy: clinical features and economic impact. J Diabetes Complications, 7(1):15-27.
• --------------- (1995):Type II diabetic nephropathy in perspective. J Diabetes Complications, 9(1):55-67.
• C. Chukwuma, Sr & J. Tuomilehto (1998): The "thrifty" hypotheses: Clinical and epidemiological significance for non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease risk factors. J Cardiovascular Risk, 5(1):11-23.
• Antikainen RL, Moltchanov VA, Chukwuma C Sr et al (2006): Trends in the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension: the WHO MONICA Project. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 13(1):13/29.

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