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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38442666/multiple-pathogen-contamination-of-water-hands-and-fomites-in-rural-nepal-and-the-effect-of-wash-interventions
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REVIEW
Sital Uprety, Isaac Ngo, Marika Maggos, Bipin Dangol, Samendra P Sherchan, Joanna L Shisler, Mohan Amarasiri, Daisuke Sano, Thanh H Nguyen
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WaSH) interventions are the most effective in reducing diarrheal disease severity and prevalence. However, very few studies have investigated the effectiveness of WaSH intervention in reducing pathogen presence and concentration. In this study, we employed a microfluidic PCR approach to quantify twenty bacterial pathogens in water (n = 360), hands (n = 180), and fomite (n = 540) samples collected in rural households of Nepal to assess the pathogen exposures and the effect of WaSH intervention on contamination and exposure rates...
March 4, 2024: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38440993/comprehensive-identification-and-ubiquitous-occurrence-of-eight-classes-of-rubber-derived-vulcanization-accelerators-in-urban-dusts
#22
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jiali Ge, Xiangyu Hou, Li Liu, Qing Deng, Bibai Du, Lixi Zeng
Vulcanization accelerators (VAs) serve as crucial additives in synthetic rubber on a global scale. Despite their widespread use, the environmental presence, distribution, and associated exposure risks of VAs remain poorly understood. This study compiled a target list and conducted a screening for eight classes encompassing 42 VAs in diverse urban dust samples from South China. A total of 40 of the 42 target VAs were detectable across all four studied regions, among which 30 were identified for the first time in the environment...
March 5, 2024: Environmental Science & Technology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38439824/is-air-pollution-exposure-linked-to-household-income-spatial-analysis-of-community-multiscale-air-quality-model-results-for-madrid
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Richard J Hewitt, Eduardo Caramés, Rafael Borge
This study explores the potential correlation between income and exposure to air pollution for the city of Madrid, Spain and its neighboring municipalities. Madrid is a well-known European air pollution hotspot with a high mortality burden attributable to nitrogen dioxide (NO2 ) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5 ). Statistical analyses were carried out using electoral district level data on gross household income (GHI), and NO2 and PM2.5 concentrations in air obtained from a mesoscale air quality model for the study area...
March 15, 2024: Heliyon
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38437620/environmental-radon-fracking-wells-and-lymphoma-in-dogs
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ashleigh N Tindle, Samantha L Braman, Brenna M Swafford, Lauren A Trepanier
BACKGROUND: Multicentric lymphoma (ML) in dogs resembles non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in humans. Human NHL is associated with multiple environmental exposures, including to radon and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to determine whether ML in dogs was associated with environmental radon or proximity to horizontal oil and drilling (fracking), a source of VOC pollution. METHODS: We identified dogs from the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study that developed ML (n = 52) along with matched controls (n = 104)...
March 4, 2024: Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38431676/associations-of-concentrations-of-eight-urinary-phthalate-metabolites-with-the-frequency-of-use-of-common-adult-consumer-and-personal-care-products
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Eun A Jang, Kyu Nam Kim, Sang Hyuk Bae
This study analyzed the relationship between urine concentrations of phthalate metabolites (UCOM) and personal care products (PCPs) used in adults and examined the change in UCOM according to the usage frequency of PCPs based on raw data from the 3rd Korean National Environmental Health Survey conducted between 2015 and 2017. The relationship between PCP use frequency and UCOM was analyzed using multiple regression analysis, adjusting for baseline factors. The regression model consisted of a Crude Model with log-transformed UCOM before and after adjustment for urine creatinine concentrations...
March 2, 2024: Scientific Reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38431121/birth-outcomes-in-relation-to-neighborhood-food-access-and-individual-food-insecurity-during-pregnancy-in-the-environmental-influences-on-child-health-outcomes-echo-wide-cohort-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Izzuddin M Aris, Pi-I D Lin, Allison J Wu, Dana Dabelea, Barry M Lester, Rosalind J Wright, Margaret R Karagas, Jean M Kerver, Anne L Dunlop, Christine L M Joseph, Carlos A Camargo, Jody M Ganiban, Rebecca J Schmidt, Rita S Strakovsky, Cindy T McEvoy, Alison E Hipwell, T Michael O'Shea, Lacey A McCormack, Luis E Maldonado, Zhongzheng Niu, Assiamira Ferrara, Yeyi Zhu, Rana F Chehab, Eliza W Kinsey, Nicole R Bush, Ruby H N Nguyen, Kecia N Carroll, Emily S Barrett, Kristen Lyall, Lauren M Sims-Taylor, Leonardo Trasande, Jocelyn M Biagini, Carrie V Breton, Marisa A Patti, Brent Coull, Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha, Michele R Hacker, Tamarra James-Todd, Emily Oken, Smith Pb, Newby Lk, Jacobson Lp, Catellier Dj, Fuselier G, Gershon R, Cella D
BACKGROUND: Limited access to healthy foods, resulting from residence in neighborhoods with low food access or from household food insecurity, is a public health concern. Contributions of these measures during pregnancy to birth outcomes remain understudied. OBJECTIVE: We examined associations of neighborhood food access and individual food insecurity during pregnancy with birth outcomes. STUDY DESIGN: We used data from 53 cohorts participating in the nationwide Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-Wide Cohort Study...
February 29, 2024: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38429696/perception-of-harm-is-strongly-associated-with-complete-ban-on-in-home-cannabis-smoking-a-cross-sectional-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Osika Tripathi, Humberto Parada, Yuyan Shi, Georg E Matt, Penelope J E Quintana, Sandy Liles, John Bellettiere
BACKGROUND: Perception of health risk can influence household rules, but little is known about how the perception of harm from cannabis secondhand smoke (cSHS) is related to having a complete ban on in-home cannabis smoking. We examined this association among a nationally representative sample of United States adults. METHODS: Respondents were 21,381 adults from the cross-sectional Marijuana Use and Environmental Survey recruited from December 2019-February 2020...
March 2, 2024: BMC Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38425963/no-child-s-play-under-five-child-feces-management-in-a-rural-area-of-bengaluru-urban-district-india
#28
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Anissa Mary Thomas Thattil, Twinkle Agrawal, Abdul Kader Surti, Stallon Sebastian, Kiyana Mirza, George Jacob, Farah Naaz Fathima
BACKGROUND: Inappropriate feces disposal leads to environmental contamination, and increases the risk of exposure to children. We aimed to estimate the proportion of rural households with knowledge and practice of safe management of feces (SMoF) among under-five children and to identify associated factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in eight villages in Bengaluru Urban district over 2 months, using a face-validated semi-structured interview schedule...
2024: Indian Journal of Community Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38425366/impacts-of-deforestation-on-childhood-malaria-depend-on-wealth-and-vector-biology
#29
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tafesse Kefyalew Estifanos, Brendan Fisher, Gillian L Galford, Taylor H Ricketts
Ecosystem change can profoundly affect human well-being and health, including through changes in exposure to vector-borne diseases. Deforestation has increased human exposure to mosquito vectors and malaria risk in Africa, but there is little understanding of how socioeconomic and ecological factors influence the relationship between deforestation and malaria risk. We examined these interrelationships in six sub-Saharan African countries using demographic and health survey data linked to remotely sensed environmental variables for 11,746 children under 5 years old...
March 2024: GeoHealth
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38424360/development-of-nationally-representative-exposure-factor-database-for-children-s-products-in-korea
#30
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jiyun Shin, Kiyoung Lee, Seung Yeol Park, Miyoung Lim
BACKGROUND: Children may be exposed to harmful chemicals from their products. Accurate exposure factors are critical for exposure assessment of children's products. Product usage pattern parameters are relatively limited compared with the chemical concentration, children's physiological and behavioral parameters. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine nationally representative Korean exposure factors for the usage patterns of children's products by sex, age, and season...
February 29, 2024: Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38424359/the-use-of-enhanced-vegetation-index-for-assessing-access-to-different-types-of-green-space-in-epidemiological-studies
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Amy Mizen, Daniel A Thompson, Alan Watkins, Ashley Akbari, Joanne K Garrett, Rebecca Geary, Rebecca Lovell, Ronan A Lyons, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Sarah C Parker, Francis M Rowney, Jiao Song, Gareth Stratton, Benedict W Wheeler, James White, Mathew P White, Sue Williams, Sarah E Rodgers, Richard Fry
BACKGROUND: Exposure to green space can protect against poor health through a variety of mechanisms. However, there is heterogeneity in methodological approaches to exposure assessments which makes creating effective policy recommendations challenging. OBJECTIVE: Critically evaluate the use of a satellite-derived exposure metric, the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), for assessing access to different types of green space in epidemiological studies. METHODS: We used Landsat 5-8 (30 m resolution) to calculate average EVI for a 300 m radius surrounding 1...
February 29, 2024: Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38417924/understanding-the-role-of-household-hygiene-practices-and-foodborne-disease-risks-in-child-stunting-a-ukri-gcrf-action-against-stunting-hub-protocol-paper
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Paula Dominguez-Salas, Hugh Sharma Waddington, Delia Grace, Caroline Bosire, Arshnee Moodley, Bharati Kulkarni, Teena Dasi, Santosh Kumar Banjara, Ramachandrappa Naveen Kumar, Umi Fahmida, Min Kyaw Htet, Arienta R P Sudibya, Babacar Faye, Roger C Tine, Claire Heffernan, Deepak Saxena, Robert Dreibelbis, B Häsler
INTRODUCTION: Environmental hygiene and food safety are important determinants of child stunting. This research aims to explore the relationship between child stunting and household hygiene practices and behaviours, including the availability of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities; the use of safe food and good quality drinking water (especially when used for complementary feeding); hygienic practices in food transport, storage and preparation and the control of cross-contamination from animals, their produce and waste...
February 27, 2024: BMJ Paediatrics Open
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38413202/the-association-between-indoor-air-pollution-from-solid-fuels-and-cognitive-impairment-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis
#33
REVIEW
Hongye Peng, Miyuan Wang, Yichong Wang, Zuohu Niu, Feiya Suo, Jixiang Liu, Tianhui Zhou, Shukun Yao
This study aimed to comprehensively and methodically evaluate the correlation between cognitive impairment and indoor air pollution from solid fuel used for cooking/heating. PubMed, Web of Science, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library databases were searched up to December January 2023. 13 studies from three countries with a total of 277,001 participants were enrolled. A negative correlation was discovered between solid fuel usage for cooking and total cognitive score (β=-0.73, 95 % CI: -0.90 to -0.55) and episodic memory score (β=-0...
February 28, 2024: Reviews on Environmental Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38405953/simulating-desegregation-through-affordable-housing-development-an-environmental-health-impact-assessment-of-connecticut-zoning-law
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Saira Prasanth, Nire Oloyede, Xuezhixing Zhang, Kai Chen, Daniel Carrión
Residential segregation shapes access to health-promoting resources and drives health inequities in the United States. Connecticut's Section 8-30g incentivizes municipalities to develop a housing stock that is at least 10% affordable housing. We used this implicit target to project the impact of increasing affordable housing across all 169 Connecticut municipalities on all-cause mortality among low-income residents. We modeled six ambient environmental exposures: fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ), ozone (O 3 ), nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ), summertime daily maximum heat index, greenness, and road traffic noise...
February 14, 2024: medRxiv
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38401786/firearm-related-lead-exposure-and-child-lead-levels-in-the-united-states-2012-2018
#35
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Christian Hoover, Alan Fossa, Megan L Ranney, Gabrielle Groth Hoover, Aaron J Specht, David Hemenway, Joseph M Braun
OBJECTIVE: To determine if firearm ownership is positively related to elevated child lead levels at a state-level, even when accounting for other sources of lead. STUDY DESIGN: For this cross-sectional ecological study, we investigated whether household firearm ownership rates (a proxy for firearm-related lead exposure) was associated with the prevalence of elevated child blood lead levels in 44 US States between 2012 and 2018. To account for potential confounding, we adjusted for other known lead exposures, poverty rate, population density, race, and calendar year...
February 22, 2024: Journal of Pediatrics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38397658/nature-and-mental-health-in-urban-texas-a-naturescore-based-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Omar M Makram, Alan Pan, Jay E Maddock, Bita A Kash
In this cross-sectional study, we examined the impact of access to nature on mental health utilization in urban neighborhoods using Texas outpatient encounters data merged with NatureScoreTM (0-100; low to high nature levels) and US census data (household income, education, employment, poverty, and insurance coverage) at the zipcode level. Our sample size included 61 million outpatient encounters across 1169 zipcodes, with 63% women and 30% elderly. A total of 369,344 mental health encounters were identified, with anxiety/stress and depression encounters representing 68...
February 1, 2024: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38397647/stress-due-to-inflation-changes-over-time-correlates-and-coping-strategies-among-working-age-adults-in-the-united-states
#37
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sophie Mitra, Chan Shen, Jahnavi Pinnamraju, R Constance Wiener, Hao Wang, Mona Pathak, Patricia A Findley, Usha Sambamoorthi
BACKGROUND: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual US inflation rate increased from 1.2% in July 2020 to 8% in July 2022. It has since declined to 3.4% (December 2023). This study examined the prevalence of stress due to inflation during a period when it declined from 8.2% in September 2022 to 3% in June 2023 and its association with demographic and social determinants of health (SDOH). METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of the online Household Pulse Survey (HPS), which surveils the experiences of US households...
January 30, 2024: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38397646/poverty-food-insecurity-nexus-in-the-post-construction-context-of-a-large-hydropower-dam-in-the-brazilian-amazon
#38
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Igor Cavallini Johansen, Miquéias Freitas Calvi, Verônica Gronau Luz, Ana Maria Segall-Corrêa, Caroline C Arantes, Victoria Judith Isaac, Renata Utsunomiya, Vanessa Cristine E Souza Reis, Emilio F Moran
Within the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, large hydropower dams are positioned as a sustainable energy source, notwithstanding their adverse impacts on societies and ecosystems. This study contributed to ongoing discussions about the persistence of critical social issues, even after the investments of large amounts of resources in areas impacted by the construction of large hydropower dams. Our study focused on food insecurity and evaluated this issue in the city of Altamira in the Brazilian Amazon, which has been profoundly socially and economically impacted by the construction, between 2011 and 2015, of Brazil's second-largest dam, namely, Belo Monte...
January 30, 2024: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38397629/parasitosis-in-pet-dogs-from-rond%C3%A3-nia-amazon-biome-and-human-perception-of-zoonoses
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Talita Oliveira Mendonça, Patricia Parreira Perin, Dayane da Silva Zanini, Hortência Laporti de Souza, Paulo Henrique Kanopp Pires, Igor Mansur Muniz, José Hairton Tebaldi, Luís Antonio Mathias, Karina Paes Bürger, Estevam G Lux-Hoppe
Zoonotic parasitic diseases in dogs are particularly concerning in regions with low human development indices due to inadequate sanitary services and insufficient environmental and health education. This study aimed to assess the parasitological status of dogs living in households and evaluate their owners' knowledge about zoonoses. A total of 183 dogs from Rolim de Moura, Rondônia State, were screened for the presence of ectoparasites, and 163 fecal samples were collected for analysis. The results showed that 74...
January 26, 2024: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38397616/the-influence-of-household-and-community-food-environments-on-food-insecurity-in-limpopo-province-south-africa
#40
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xikombiso Gertrude Mbhenyane, Ayuk Betrand Tambe
Insufficient access to enough quality food remains a public health challenge in South Africa. This study aimed to report the influence of community and the household environment, food system inventories, and food procurement on household food security. The findings alluded that food insecurity is prevalent among the rural areas in South Africa. Large household sizes and a limited access to and use of water and food storage facilities for food preservation are the major household determinants. A multi-sectoral nutrition-planning approach that accelerates the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals should be reinforced...
January 24, 2024: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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