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The Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium – a protocol for building a national environmental exposure data platform for integrated analyses of urban form and health

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Multiple external environmental exposures related to residential location and urban form including, air pollutants, noise, greenness, and walkability have been linked to health impacts or benefits.
Jeffrey R. Brook, Eleanor M. Setton, Evan Seed, Mahdi Shooshtari, Dany Doiron, CANUE – The Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium   +5 more
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The African Wastewater Resistome: Identifying Knowledge Gaps to Inform Future Research Directions

Antibiotics, 2023
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global public health threat. Furthermore, wastewater is increasingly recognized as a significant environmental reservoir for AMR.
Akebe Luther King Abia, Themba Baloyi, Afsatou N. Traore, Natasha Potgieter   +3 more
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Nanomaterials in Food – Prioritisation & Assessment

EFSA Journal, 2019
Nanomaterials (NMs) are of significant economic interest and have a huge impact on many industries including the food industry. The main application in food industry includes food additives and food packaging.
ANSES‐ French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety, France, Eleni Anastasi, Gilles Riviere, Bruno Teste   +3 more
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Feasibility assessment of crowdsourcing slogans for promoting household waste segregation in India: a cross-sectional study

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionCrowdsourcing is an emerging technique to engage or access a wider set of experts and multiple stakeholders through online platforms, which might effectively be employed in waste management.
Kavya Krishnan, Krushna Chandra Sahoo, Madhanraj Kalyanasundaram, Surya Singh, Asha Srinivas, Ashish Pathak, Ashish Pathak, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg, Salla Atkins, Salla Atkins, Kamran Rousta, Vishal Diwan, Vishal Diwan   +12 more
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Review on health effects of indoor and outdoor artificial light at night

环境与职业医学, 2023
A growing number of urban dwellers are being exposed to excessively bright artificial night light induced by the development of high-intensity, high-density cities around the world.
Yiwen GUO, Jin QI, Kejia HU
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Environmental Ethics and Mental Health during COVID-19

Psikiyatride Güncel Yaklaşımlar, 2023
As the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, population density, ecological changes, etc. natural phenomena are shown. The physical, chemical, biological, socioeconomic, cultural and psychological effects of COVID-19 have been felt all over the
Serhat Düzenci, Bahanur Malak
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Health Inspectors on Local Boards of Health: the Impact on Communities’ Environmental Health Governance

Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association, 2019
Background: This study examines whether having a required health inspector on a local board of health (LBOH) improves the board’s information on environmental health. Methods: Analysis uses the national random sample of 351 U.S.
Jeff Jones, Asli Aslan, Ginger Fenton
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L'approche écosystémique de la santé des populations : le cas de l’exposition au mercure des communautés riveraines de l’Amazonie et du nord du Québec

Développement Durable et Territoires, 2013
The environmental mercury issue is complex and the subclinical impacts of a long-term exposure to low concentrations have often failed to be taken into account.
Sebastian Weissenberger, Delaine Sampaio da Silva, Roger Schetagne   +2 more
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Environmentally vulnerable or sensitive groups exhibiting varying concerns toward air pollution can drive government response to improve air quality

iScience, 2022
Summary: Air pollution seriously threatens human health, and its consequences are particularly prevalent among environmentally vulnerable or sensitive groups.
Z.H. Wang, W.H. Zhao, B. Wang, J. Liu, S.L. Xu, B. Zhang, Y.F. Sun, H. Shi, D.B. Guan   +8 more
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