Vallone, Donna Greenberg, Marisa Xiao, Haijun Bennett, Morgane Cantrell, Jennifer Rath, Jessica Hair, Elizabeth
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International journal of environmental research and public health
Policy interventions such as public health mass media campaigns disseminate messages in order to improve health-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors at the population level. Only more recently have campaigns that promote health-related behaviors adopted branding, a well-established marketing strategy, to influence how consumers think...
Robin, Charlotte Perkins, Elizabeth Watkins, Francine Christley, Robert
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International journal of environmental research and public health
In the United Kingdom, following the emergence of Seoul hantavirus in pet rat owners in 2012, public health authorities tried to communicate the risk of this zoonotic disease, but had limited success. To explore this lack of engagement with health advice, we conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with pet rat owners and analysed them using ...
Alter, Joseph S Nair, R M Nair, Rukmani
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International journal of environmental research and public health
With rapidly increasing rates of non-communicable diseases, India is experiencing a dramatic public health crisis that is closely linked to changing lifestyles and the growth of the middle-class. In this essay we discuss how the practice of Nature Cure provides a way of understanding the scale and scope of the crisis, as it is embodied, and a way t...
Xing, Caihong Zheng, Min
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International journal of environmental research and public health
We would like to thank Moshammer and Poteser for their comments [...].
Lee, Myoung-Eun Park, Jin Hee Chung, Jae Woo
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International journal of environmental research and public health
Ginkgo trees are common street trees in Korea, and the large amounts of leaves that fall onto the streets annually need to be cleaned and treated. Therefore, fallen gingko leaves have been used as a raw material to produce biochar for the removal of heavy metals from solutions. Gingko-leaf-derived biochar was produced under various carbonization te...
Rau, Cheng-Shyuan Wu, Shao-Chun Chen, Yi-Chun Chien, Peng-Chen Hsieh, Hsiao-Yun Kuo, Pao-Jen Hsieh, Ching-Hua
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International journal of environmental research and public health
Background: The diagnosis of diabetic hyperglycemia (DH) does not preclude a diabetes patient from having a stress-induced hyperglycemic response. This study aimed to define the optimal level of elevated glucose concentration for determining the occurrence of stress-induced hyperglycemia (SIH) in patients with diabetes. Methods: This retrospective ...
Westerholm, Peter Remaéus, Bertil Svartengren, Magnus
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International journal of environmental research and public health
This paper provides a narrative of the national intervention strategy in Sweden aimed to restrict the industrial use of asbestos. For many years, asbestos was imported for widespread industrial use, resulting in large amounts throughout Swedish society. In 1972, the whistle was blown in a Communist Party parliamentary motion describing asbestos as ...
Chai, Ji Wang, Zhanqi Zhang, Hongwei
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International journal of environmental research and public health
As land resources and ecosystems provide necessary materials and conditions for human development, land use change and ecological security play increasingly important roles in sustainable development. This study aims to reveal the mutual-influence and interaction between land use change and ecological security in Wuhan, based on the coupling coordi...
Jennings, Viniece Baptiste, April Karen Osborne Jelks, Na'Taki Skeete, Renée
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International journal of environmental research and public health
Research has demonstrated that inequitable access to green space can relate to health disparities or inequalities. This commentary aims to shift the dialogue to initiatives that have integrated green spaces in projects that may promote health equity in the United States. Specifically, we connect this topic to factors such as community revitalizatio...
Lu, Wen-Cheng
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International journal of environmental research and public health
This research investigates the co-movement and causality relationships between greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption and economic growth for 16 Asian countries over the period 1990-2012. The empirical findings suggest that in the long run, bidirectional Granger causality between energy consumption, GDP and greenhouse gas emissions and betwee...
