Scott-Richardson, Maya Ruiz, Marilyn O’Hara Smith, Rebecca L
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Environmental Health Insights
Arsenic is a public health concern because of its widespread distribution and high toxicity, even when doses are small. Low birth weight (LBW) occurrence, birth weights less than 2500 g, may be associated with prenatal exposure of arsenic from environmental factors and consuming contaminated drinking water and food. The objective of this study was ...
Farnham, Andrea Cossa, Hermínio Dietler, Dominik Engebretsen, Rebecca Leuenberger, Andrea Lyatuu, Isaac Nimako, Belinda Zabre, Hyacinthe R Brugger, Fritz Winkler, Mirko S
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JMIR Research Protocols
Background Natural resource extraction projects offer both opportunities and risks for sustainable development and health in host communities. Often, however, the health of the community suffers. Health impact assessment (HIA) can mitigate the risks and promote the benefits of development but is not routinely done in the developing regions that cou...
Rojas-Rueda, David Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J. Khreis, Haneen Frumkin, Howard
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have the potential to shape urban life and significantly modify travel behaviors. “Autonomous technology” means technology that can drive a vehicle without active physical control or monitoring by a human operator. The first AV fleets are already in service in US cities. AVs offer a variety of automation, vehicle ownership...
Spiegel, Samuel J. Thomas, Sarah O’Neill, Kevin Brondgeest, Cassandra Thomas, Jen Beltran, Jiovanni Hunt, Terena Yassi, Annalee
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Visual practices of representing fossil fuel projects are entangled in diverse values and relations that often go underexplored. In Canada, visual media campaigns to aggressively push forward the fossil fuel industry not only relegate to obscurity indigenous values but mask evidence on health impacts as well as the aspirations of those most affecte...
Cannon, Clare E.B.
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Increasingly, funders (i.e., national, public funders, such as the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation in the U.S.) and scholars agree that single disciplines are ill equipped to study the pressing social, health, and environmental problems we face alone, particularly environmental exposures, increasing health disparities,...
Cannon, Clare EB
Increasingly, funders (i.e., national, public funders, such as the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation in the U.S.) and scholars agree that single disciplines are ill equipped to study the pressing social, health, and environmental problems we face alone, particularly environmental exposures, increasing health disparities,...
Bowe, Benjamin Artimovich, Elena Xie, Yan Yan, Yan Cai, Miao Al-Aly, Ziyad
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BMJ Global Health
Introduction We aimed to integrate all available epidemiological evidence to characterise an exposure–response model of ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and the risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) across the spectrum of PM2.5 concentrations experienced by humans. We then estimated the global and national burden of CKD attributable to PM2.5....
Huong, Le Thi Thanh Hanh, Tran Thi Tuyet Toan, Luu Quoc Trang, Do Thi Hanh Quynh, Nguyen Thuy Anh, Nguyen Quynh Long, Tran Khanh Fenwick, Stanley Ha, Nguyen Thanh Alexander, Bruce H
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AIMS Public Health
Vietnam is facing a shortage of skilled Environmental health workforce. A Training Needs Assessment was conducted to develop a list of environmental health tasks, a list of core competencies and assess the need for a Master of Environmental Health training program in Vietnam. To answer these questions, a cross-sectional study was conducted in Vietn...
Gao, Hui Wang, Kan W. Au, William Zhao, Wensui Xia, Zhao-lin
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death globally and ozone exposure is a main cause of its disease burden. However, studies on COPD hospitalizations from short-term ambient level ozone exposure have not generated consensus results. To address the knowledge gap, comprehensive and systematic searches in severa...
Anderson, Darcy M. Cronk, Ryan Best, Lucy Radin, Mark Schram, Hayley Tracy, J. Wren Bartram, Jamie
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Environmental health services (EHS) in healthcare facilities (HCFs) are critical for safe care provision, yet their availability in low- and middle-income countries is low. A poor understanding of costs hinders progress towards adequate provision. Methods are inconsistent and poorly documented in costing literature, suggesting opportunities to impr...
