A5010469580- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Noise Effects and Management
- Global Health Care Issues
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Disaster Response and Management
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Thermoregulation and physiological responses
- Thermal Regulation in Medicine
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Travel-related health issues
Boston Children's Hospital
2013-2024
Harvard Global Health Institute
2013-2024
Harvard University
2014-2024
Boston University
2015-2024
Massachusetts General Hospital
2024
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
2021-2024
National Center for Environmental Health
2024
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2024
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2024
Brigham and Women's Hospital
2024
Investments to prevent tropical deforestation and limit wildlife trade will protect against future zoonosis outbreaks
This Policy Statement was reaffirmed April 2021. Blood lead concentrations have decreased dramatically in US children over the past 4 decades, but too many still live housing with deteriorated lead-based paint and are at risk for exposure resulting lead-associated cognitive impairment behavioral problems. Evidence continues to accrue that commonly encountered blood concentrations, even those below 5 µg/dL (50 ppb), impair cognition; there is no identified threshold or safe level of blood....
The lives lost and economic costs of viral zoonotic pandemics have steadily increased over the past century. Prominent policymakers promoted plans that argue best ways to address future pandemic catastrophes should entail, “detecting containing emerging threats.” In other words, we take actions only after humans get sick. We sharply disagree. Humans extensive contact with wildlife known harbor vast numbers viruses, many which not yet spilled into humans. compute annualized damages from...
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Existing studies on association between temperatures and cardiovascular deaths have been limited in geographic zones generally considered associations with total rather than cause-specific deaths.We used unified data collection protocols within Multi-Country Multi-City Collaborative Network to assemble a database daily counts specific causes from 567 cities 27 countries across 5 continents overlapping periods ranging 1979 2019....
Ambient air pollution is produced by sources including vehicular traffic, coal-fired power plants, hydraulic fracturing, agricultural production, and forest fires. It consists of primary pollutants generated combustion secondary formed in the atmosphere from precursor gases. Air causes exacerbates climate change, change worsens health effects pollution. Infants children are uniquely sensitive to pollution, because their organs developing they have higher per body weight intake. Health linked...
The warming of our planet matters to every child. Driven by fossil fuel-generated greenhouse gas emissions, climate conditions stable since the founding modern pediatrics in mid-nineteenth century have shifted, and old certainties are falling away. Children's physical mental health threatened change through its effects on temperature, precipitation, extreme weather; ecological disruption; community disruption. These impacts expose amplify existing inequities create unprecedented...
Increasing scientific evidence suggests potential adverse effects on children's health from synthetic chemicals used as food additives, both those deliberately added to during processing (direct) and in materials that may contaminate part of packaging or manufacturing (indirect). Concern regarding additives has increased the past 2 decades because studies increasingly document endocrine disruption other effects. In some cases, exposure these is disproportionate among minority low-income...
Despite calls for including content on climate change and its effect health in curricula across the spectrum of medical education, no widely used resource exists to guide residency training programs this effort. This lack resources poses challenges program leaders seeking incorporate evidence-based into their curricula. Climate increases risks heat-related illness, infections, asthma, mental disorders, poor perinatal outcomes, adverse experiences from trauma displacement, other harms. More...
No one questions the importance of investments to prevent and treat cancer. Nearly 10 million people worldwide will die from cancer this year alone.1 In high-income nations, more than any other cause2 and, globally, is second leading cause death.3 Over past 100 years, many cancers have been transformed death sentences into frequently preventable potentially curable diseases through identification control risk factors, improvement in early detection, development effective therapies.4, 5 fact,...
Medical schools face a challenge when trying to include new topics, such as climate change and health (CCH), in their curricula because of competing demands from more traditional biomedical content. At the same time, an understanding CCH topics is crucial for physicians they have clear implications clinical practice care delivery. Although some medical begun incorporate into curricula, inclusion usually lacks comprehensive framework content implementation. The authors propose model...
Observed changes in temperature, precipitation patterns, sea level, and extreme weather are destabilizing major determinants of human health. Children at higher risk climate-related health burdens than adults because their unique behavior patterns; developing organ systems physiology; greater exposure to air, food, water contaminants per unit body weight; dependence on caregivers. Climate change harms children through numerous pathways, including air pollution, heat exposure, floods...
Unprecedented heat waves can affect all persons, but some are more sensitive to the effects of heat, including children and adults with underlying health conditions, pregnant women, outdoor workers. Many regions United States experienced record-breaking high temperatures in 2023, populations exposed extremely for prolonged periods. CDC examined emergency department (ED) visits associated heat-related illness (HRI) from National Syndromic Surveillance Program compared daily HRI ED visit rates...
Climate change increasingly threatens the ability of US health care system to deliver safe, effective, and efficient American people. The existing has key vulnerabilities that will grow more problematic as effects climate on Americans’ lives become stronger. Thus, policy makers must integrate a lens they develop interventions. Applying means assessing change–driven risks integrating them into policies other actions improve nation’s health. This can be applied rethinking how take...
Extreme temperatures contribute significantly to global mortality. While previous studies on temperature and stroke-specific outcomes presented conflicting results, these were predominantly limited single-city or single-country analyses. Their findings are difficult synthesize due variations in methodologies exposure definitions.
Kuwait and the Gulf region have a desert, hyper-arid hot climate that makes outdoor air sampling challenging. The is also affected by intense dust storms. Monitoring challenges from harsh limited data needed to inform appropriate regulatory actions address pollution in region. To compare gravimetric measurements with existing networks rely on beta-attenuation desert climate; determine annual levels of PM2.5 PM10 over two-year period Kuwait; assess compliance quality standards; identify...
Noise exposure is a major cause of hearing loss in adults. Yet, noise affects people all ages, and noise-induced also problem for young people. Sensorineural caused by other toxic exposures usually irreversible. Environmental noise, such as traffic can affect learning, physiologic parameters, quality life. Children adolescents have unique vulnerabilities to noise. may be exposed beginning NICUs well-baby nurseries, at home, school, their neighborhoods, recreational settings. Personal...
Extreme heat exposures are increasing with climate change. Health effects well documented in adults, but the risks to children not characterized.