A5013306660- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Noise Effects and Management
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide
- Odor and Emission Control Technologies
- Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Sustainability in Higher Education
- Thermoregulation and physiological responses
- Environmental Chemistry and Analysis
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Chemical Analysis and Environmental Impact
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control
- Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
- Global Health Care Issues
- Circadian rhythm and melatonin
Imperial College London
2018-2024
Medical Research Council
2021-2023
MRC Centre for Environment and Health
2021-2022
Institut Català d'Oncologia
2017-2020
Government of Catalonia
2017-2020
National Institute for Health Research
2018
Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Girona
2017
Background: Night shift work, exposure to light at night (ALAN) and circadian disruption may increase the risk of hormone-dependent cancers. Objectives: We evaluated association ALAN during sleeping time with breast prostate cancer in a population based multicase–control study (MCC-Spain), among subjects who had never worked night. chronotype, characteristic that relate adaptation Methods: enrolled 1,219 cases, 1,385 female controls, 623 879 male controls from 11 Spanish regions 2008–2013....
Latinos born in the US, 36 million, comprise 65% of all US Latinos. Yet their cancer experience is nearly always analyzed together with foreign-born counterparts, 19 who constitute a steady influx truly lower-risk populations from abroad. To highlight specific vulnerabilities for US-born Latinos, we compare mortality to majority non-Latino white (NLW) population, and blacks. We 465,751 deaths 2008 2012 occurring among residents California Texas, two most populous states, accounting 47% This...
The negative impacts of global climate change are well-known, but the health benefits mitigation actions and their high monetary valuations less appreciated. Actions to reduce use fossil fuels greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from energy production, industry, transportation, agriculture will also bring major public (see Figure 1).1 Economic care savings improved population can far exceed cost measures. Cities, regions, countries that implement gain immediate long-term economic these...
Unintentional non-fire related (UNFR) carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a preventable cause of morbidity and mortality. Epidemiological data on UNFR CO can help monitor changes in the magnitude this burden, particularly through comparisons multiple countries, to identify vulnerable sub-groups population which may be more at risk. Here, we collected age- sex- specific number hospital admissions with primary diagnosis England (2002-2016), aggregated small areas, alongside area-level...
Bioaerosols, ubiquitous in ambient air, are released elevated concentrations from composting facilities with open-air processing areas. However, spatial and temporal variability of bioaerosols, particularly relation to meteorology, is not well understood. Here we model relative Aspergillus fumigatus at each postcode-weighted centroid within 4 km 217 England between 2005 2014. Facilities were geocoded the aid satellite imagery. Data existing bioaerosol modelling literature used build emission...
Noise pollution is increasingly recognised as a public health hazard, yet limited evidence available from low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), particularly for specific sources. Here, we investigated the association between day-night average (Ldn) aircraft noise risk of death due to cardiovascular disease (CVD), stroke coronary heart (CHD) at small-area level around São Paulo's Congonhas airport, Brazil during period 2011-2016.We selected 3259 census tracts across 16 districts partially...
Motivated by a growing recognition of the climate emergency, reflected in 26th Conference Parties (COP26), we outline untapped opportunities to improve health through ambitious actions cities. Health is primary reason for action yet rarely integrated urban plans as policy goal. This missed opportunity create sustainable alliances across sectors and groups, engage broad set stakeholders, develop structural promotion. In this statement, first briefly review literature on co-benefits change...
The Rapid Inquiry Facility 4.0 (RIF) is a new user-friendly and open-access tool, developed by the UK Small Area Health Statistics Unit (SAHSU), to facilitate environment public health tracking (EPHT) or surveillance (EPHS). RIF designed help professionals academics rapidly perform exploratory investigations of environmental data at small-area level (e.g. postcode detailed census areas) in order identify unusual signals, such as disease clusters potential hazards, whether localized...
Bioaerosols have been associated with adverse respiratory-related health effects and are emitted in elevated concentrations from composting facilities. We used modelled Aspergillus fumigatus concentrations, a good indicator for bioaerosol emissions, to assess associations hospital admissions. Mean daily were estimated each site first full year of permit issue 2005 onwards 2014 Census Output Areas (COAs) within 4 km 76 facilities England, as previously described (Williams et al., 2019)....
Abstract Exposure to non-optimal temperatures remains the single most deathful direct climate change impact health. The risk varies based on adaptation capacity of exposed population which can be driven by climatic and/or non-climatic factors subject fluctuations over time. We investigated temporal changes in exposure–response relationship between daily mean temperature and mortality cause death, sex, age, ethnicity megacity São Paulo, Brazil (2000–2018). fitted a quasi-Poisson regression...
We aim to comprehensively describe the incidence and mortality trends of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) Girona province, Spain (1994-2013) estimate all-cause excess risk diagnosed women.Age-standardized rates DCIS were estimated between 1994 2013. Standard ratios (SMR) absolute calculated overall by tumor patient characteristics. A sensitivity analysis was conducted excluding cases with a subsequent invasive breast cancer (sIBC).Of 641 women included, 56 died (follow-up time: 8.4...
Abstract Background The association between socioeconomic level and reproductive factors has been widely studied. For example, it is well known that women with lower status (SES) tend to have more children, the age at first-born being earlier. However, less about what extent great changes occurred in a country (Spain) could modify factors. main purpose of this article analyze influence individual contextual levels on Spanish women, explore whether changed over last decades. Methods We...
Background: A community’s capacity to reduce its vulnerability temperature is key building resilience climate change. We investigated difference in the adaptation heat and cold between 2000 2018 by gender, age ethnicity São Paulo, Brazil.Methods: fitted a quasi-Poison regression model combined with time-varying distributed-lag non-linear (tv-DLNM) assess temporal changes temperature-mortality association. Models were adjusted for relative humidity, particulate matter <10µm, seasonality,...
Abstract Background The association between socioeconomic level and reproductive factors has been widely studied. For example, it is well known that women with lower status (SES) tend to have more children, the age at first-born being earlier. However, less about what extent great changes occurred in a country (Spain) could modify factors. main purpose of this article analyze influence individual contextual levels on Spanish women, explore whether changed over last decades. Methods We...
Suicide and mental health disorders are a recognized increasing public concern. Most suicide prevention rely on evidence from mortality data, although attempts better predictor for completed suicides. Understanding spatio-temporal patterns demographic profiles of people at risk can improve schemes, including carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, common method gas-related suicides.Describe intentional CO poisoning hospitalization rates in England between 2002 2016, identify population sub-groups...
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Most studies investigating temperature-related health effects in cities rely on temperature recordings from few meteorological stations or models at coarse spatial resolution. Overlooking the variability of may lead to biased epidemiological findings. Here, we propose a machine learning algorithm predict daily mean 500m-squared São Paulo between 2015 and 2019, compare it traditional multilinear regression approaches. METHOD: We built random forest (RF) model combining 44...
<h3>Background/aim</h3> The residential environment of women diagnosed with breast cancer (BC) has been suggested to be a key modifier their survival outcomes, area deprivation and remoteness (i.e. rural/urban) as chief indicators. Here, we aimed describe the an invasive BC in Girona province (Spain) during 2000–2013 based on characteristics area. <h3>Methods</h3> We restricted our analysis incident tumours (ICD-10: C50.X) (2000–2013). Data tumour vital status patients were collected from...
PDS 68: Outdoor air pollution, mortality and morbidity, Exhibition Hall (PDS), Ground floor, August 26, 2019, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Background: Environmental factors, including deprivation, account for 23% of global deaths. Deprivation is believed to magnify differences in the exposure levels (exposure differential), population's susceptibility develop health outcomes given an (susceptibility differential). We aimed examine differentials various environmental exposures, such as PM2.5 NO2,...
Abstract The association between socioeconomic level and reproductive factors has been widely studied. For example, it is well known that women with lower status (SES) tend to have more children, the age at first-born being earlier. However, less about what extent great changes occurred in a country (Spain) could modify factors. Objective: To analyze influence of individual contextual levels on Spanish women, explore whether this changed over last decades. Methods: We performed...