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The effect of high temperatures on risk of hospitalization in northern Vietnam
Vietnam is one Southeast Asian country most vulnerable to climate change. By the end of the twenty-first century, temperature could rise above 5°C across Vietnam according to the IPCC highest emission pathway ...
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Health-Promoting Workplaces
The world of work is undergoing profound changes, not least the transformative effect of new technology, changing demographics (ILO, 2019, The future of work. https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/futu...
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Probabilistic health risk assessment of chlorpyrifos exposure among applicators on rice farms in Ghana
Human health risk assessments of exposures to non-carcinogenic occupational and environmental toxicants have mostly been undertaken using the Hazard Quotient (HQ) approach, which largely ignores variabilities ...
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Open AccessThe Pearl River Declaration: a timely call for enhancing health security through fostering a regional one health collaboration in the Asia-Pacific
The Second International Symposium on One Health Research (ISOHR) was held in Guangzhou city, China on 23–24 November 2019. A transdisciplinary collaborative approach, One Health (OH), was the central theme of...
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Spatial patterns of health vulnerability to heatwaves in Vietnam
The increasing frequency and intensity of heat events have weighty impacts on public health in Vietnam, but their effects vary across regions. In this study, we have applied a vulnerability assessment framewor...
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Temporal relationships between climate variables and hand-foot-mouth disease: a multi-province study in the Mekong Delta Region, Vietnam
Hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) is an emerging infectious disease that affects thousands of children every year in Vietnam, especially in the Mekong Delta Region (MDR). This study aims to analyse both provincia...
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Association of the built environments and health-related quality of life in community-dwelling older adults: a cross-sectional study
The relationship between built environments and the quality of life (QoL) of the elderly has gained great attention in recent years. However, most QoL studies have been conducted in western countries; thus, li...
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Open AccessExploring the system capacity to meet occupational health and safety needs: the case of the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh
Since the 2013 Rana Plaza incident in Bangladesh, the government of Bangladesh has been under pressure to improve health and safety conditions for workers in the ready-made garment industry. Its efforts have f...
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Difference of trace element exposed routes and their health risks between agriculture and pastoral areas in Bay County **njiang, China
The concentration level related to toxicities of trace elements in drinking water, rice, wheat flour, and their associated negative impacts on human health have become an emergent issue in China. Because **nji...
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Open AccessSewing shirts with injured fingers and tears: exploring the experience of female garment workers health problems in Bangladesh
The ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh not only contributes to the nation’s economic development, but has created income opportunities for women, benefiting their whole family. However, these benefits c...
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Is the World Health Organization predicted exposure assessment model for space spraying of insecticides applicable to agricultural farmers?
Agricultural farmers in develo** countries are at high risk of pesticide exposure and adverse effects because of unsafe practices and inappropriate legislation. Biological monitoring is considered a useful t...
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Biomonitoring of chlorpyrifos exposure and health risk assessment among applicators on rice farms in Ghana
Chlorpyrifos is a neurotoxic insecticide that is widely used in the agricultural sector of Ghana. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the levels of chlorpyrifos exposure and health risk among appl...
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Open AccessThreats of Zika virus transmission for Asia and its Hindu-Kush Himalayan region
Asia and its Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is particularly vulnerable to environmental change, especially climate and land use changes further influenced by rapid population growth, high level of poverty a...
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Open AccessWhat makes pregnant workers sick: why, when, where and how? An exploratory study in the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has made significant progress in reducing maternal mortality. Many factors have contributed to this; one is the socio-economic development of the country. The ready-made garment industry is at the f...
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Open AccessThe impact of cold spells on mortality and effect modification by cold spell characteristics
In China, the health impact of cold weather has received little attention, which limits our understanding of the health impacts of climate change. We collected daily mortality and meteorological data in 66 com...
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Open AccessAn integrated risk and vulnerability assessment framework for climate change and malaria transmission in East Africa
Malaria is one of the key research concerns in climate change-health relationships. Numerous risk assessments and modelling studies provide evidence that the transmission range of malaria will expand with risi...
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The spatial distribution of vulnerability to the health impacts of flooding in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Flooding causes significant public health issues. The Mekong Delta has been considered the region to be the most vulnerable to flooding in Vietnam. This study assessed the spatial vulnerability of the health i...
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Heat-related illness in China, summer of 2013
Extreme heat events have occurred more frequently in China in recent years, leading to serious impacts on human life and the health care system. To identify the characteristics of individuals with heat-related...
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Association between climate factors and diarrhoea in a Mekong Delta area
The Mekong Delta is vulnerable to changes in climate and hydrological events which alter environmental conditions, resulting in increased risk of waterborne diseases. Research exploring the association between...
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Temporal and spatial assessment of river surface water quality using multivariate statistical techniques: a study in Can Tho City, a Mekong Delta area, Vietnam
The present study is an evaluation of temporal/spatial variations of surface water quality using multivariate statistical techniques, comprising cluster analysis (CA), principal component analysis (PCA), facto...
