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Sustainable wastewater reuse for agriculture
Effective management of water resources is crucial for global food security and sustainable development. In this Review, we explore the potential benefits and challenges associated with treated wastewater (TW)...
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Disparities in air pollution attributable mortality in the US population by race/ethnicity and sociodemographic factors
There are large differences in premature mortality in the USA by race/ethnicity, education, rurality and social vulnerability index groups. Using existing concentration–response functions, published particulat...
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Open AccessWASH interventions and child diarrhea at the interface of climate and socioeconomic position in Bangladesh
Many diarrhea-causing pathogens are climate-sensitive, and populations with the lowest socioeconomic position (SEP) are often most vulnerable to climate-related transmission. Household Water, Sanitation, and H...
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Open AccessCorrection to: The environmental justice implications of the Paris low emission zone: a health and economic impact assessment
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Open AccessThe impact of health policies and the COVID-19 pandemic on exclusive breastfeeding in Chile during 2009–2020
In 2011, Chile added 12 mandatory extra weeks of maternity leave (ML). In January 2015, a pay-for-performance (P4P) strategy was included in the primary healthcare system, incorporating exclusive breastfeeding...
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Open AccessNeighborhood disadvantage is associated with KRAS-mutated non-small cell lung cancer risk
It remains unclear why individuals living in disadvantaged neighborhoods have shorter non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) survival. It is possible that living in these deprived areas is linked with increased ri...
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Open AccessThe role of the California tier system in controlling population mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic
Policies to restrict population mobility are a commonly used strategy to limit the transmission of contagious diseases. Among measures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic were dynamic stay-at-home orders ...
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On the supra-linearity of the relationship between air pollution, mortality and hospital admission in 18 French cities
Understanding the relationship between an environmental determinant and a given health outcome is key to inform public health policies. The short-term mortality and morbidity responses to outdoor air pollutant...
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Open AccessDo precipitation anomalies influence short-term mobility in sub-saharan Africa? An observational study from 23 countries
Precipitation anomalies are associated with a number of poor health outcomes. One potential consequence of precipitation extremes is human geographic mobility. We evaluated the associations between precipitati...
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Open AccessThe environmental justice implications of the Paris low emission zone: a health and economic impact assessment
Reducing the mortality burden associated with urban air pollution constitutes a public health priority, and evidence of unequal exposure and susceptibility across population subgroups is growing. Many European...
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Open AccessEffect of out-of-village working activities on recent malaria exposure in the Peruvian Amazon using parametric g-formula
In the Amazon Region of Peru, occupational activities are important drivers of human mobility and may increase the individual risk of being infected while contributing to increasing malaria community-level tra...
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Open AccessPotential benefits of joint hypothetical interventions on diet, lead, and cadmium on mortality in US adults
Previous studies reported associations between high blood lead levels (BLLs) and urinary cadmium (UCd) concentrations and all-cause and cause-specific mortality. It is hypothesized that these associations are ...
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Open AccessThe TROLLEY Study: assessing travel, health, and equity impacts of a new light rail transit investment during the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted life in extraordinary ways impacting health and daily mobility. Public transit provides a strategy to improve individual and population health through increased active travel an...
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Open AccessHealth effects and cost-effectiveness of a multilevel physical activity intervention in low-income older adults; results from the PEP4PA cluster randomized controlled trial
Older adults are the least active population in the U.S. Low-income communities have fewer physical activity (PA) resources, contributing to less PA and increased chronic disease risk. This study assessed the ...
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Open AccessImproving the design stage of air pollution studies based on wind patterns
A growing literature in economics and epidemiology has exploited changes in wind patterns as a source of exogenous variation to better measure the acute health effects of air pollution. Since the distribution ...
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Open AccessHealthcare system resilience in Bangladesh and Haiti in times of global changes (climate-related events, migration and Covid-19): an interdisciplinary mixed method research protocol
Since climate change, pandemics and population mobility are challenging healthcare systems, an empirical and integrative research to studying and help improving the health systems resilience is needed. We pres...
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Open AccessHot and cold flavors of southern California’s Santa Ana winds: their causes, trends, and links with wildfire
Santa Ana winds (SAWs) are associated with anomalous temperatures in coastal Southern California (SoCal). As dry air flows over SoCal’s coastal ranges on its way from the elevated Great Basin down to sea level...
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Open AccessSocioeconomic inequalities in dementia risk among a French population-based cohort: quantifying the role of cardiovascular health and vascular events
This study aimed to investigate the role of cardiovascular health (CVH) and vascular events as potential contributors to socioeconomic inequalities in dementia using causal mediation analyses. We used data fro...
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Open AccessMap** socioeconomic inequalities in malaria in Sub-Sahara African countries
Despite reductions in malaria incidence and mortality across Sub-Saharan (SSA) countries, malaria control and elimination efforts are currently facing multiple global challenges such as climate and land use ch...
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Open AccessMale–female concordance in reported involvement of women in contraceptive decision-making and its association with modern contraceptive use among couples in rural Maharashtra, India
Women’s involvement in contraceptive decision-making increases contraceptive use and reduces unmet need, but study of this has been limited to women’s self-reports. Less research is available examining couple ...
