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Geostatistical Study on Waterborne Disease Outbreak in India [2011–2020]
The sudden increase of infectious disease occurrences in a specified location and time is called a disease outbreak. The impact could affect, in the...
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Infectious Diseases and Change of Disease Pattern in Africa
High prevalence of emerging and reemerging infectious diseases is reported in Africa, and it is considered one of the leading causes of deaths in the...
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Effects of air pollution on global health: evidence from the global burden of disease study in the BRICS countries
PurposeConsidering the dynamic influence of environmental, social, economic, and political factors in the emergence and growth of the BRICS countries...
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Impact of Climate Change on Viral Disease Burden in Africa
The rate of global warming is accelerating reaching the highest recorded temperature in history, and this is disrupting the usual balance of nature....
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Papua New Guinea as a Paradise (of Weaponized Diseases): AIDS/HIV, African Swine Fever, Malaria, Avian Influenza, Weaponized Viruses and Wider Public Health?
Tropical rural nations like Papua New Guinea (PNG) get easily confronted with diseases and their bad reputations. As PNG is a biodiversity hotspot,...
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Spatially explicit model of the Cryptosporidium and Giardia disease burden from surface and ground waters in urban and rural areas of the Three Gorges Reservoir watershed in Chongqing, China
Cryptosporidium and Giardia (major causes of diarrhea) are widely distributed in Chinese source waters and threaten human health. A new spatially...
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Household drinking water E. coli contamination and its associated risk with childhood diarrhea in Bangladesh
Faecal contamination (by Escherichia coli [ E. coli ]) of household drinking water can have adverse effects on child health, particularly increasing...
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Climate Change Health Impacts: The Need for Watershed and Ecohealth Approaches Base for Health Adaptation Strategies and Policies
Climate change is modifying regional and local seasonal patterns of rainfall, temperatures, climate variability and extreme events. It is producing...
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Predictions of Disease Spikes Induced by Climate Variability: A Pilot Real Time Forecasting Model Project from Maharashtra, India
Climate change is manifest globally through extreme weather events, altered rainfall patterns and spread of viral diseases. The emergence and...
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Estimating the seasonally varying effect of meteorological factors on the district-level incidence of acute watery diarrhea among under-five children of Iran, 2014–2018: a Bayesian hierarchical spatiotemporal model
Under-five years old acute watery diarrhea (U5AWD) accounts for most diarrheal diseases’ burden, but little is known about the adjusted effect of...
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Confronting the Health Impacts of Climate Change: A Comprehensive Exploration
This review article extensively explores the intricate correlation between climate change and its profound effects on human health and well-being. On...
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Stop** Arsenic Poisoning in India
In the 1980s, most households of rural India and Bangladesh switched from surface sources for their drinking water – which was causing high incidence...
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Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Community Human Health in Chivi, Zimbabwe
This chapter examined use of Indigenous knowledge on herbs to ensure sustainable health lives during COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on Indigenous...
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The Importance of Vaccines in a Sustainable Healthy Society
A sustainable society is a community that can live within the frame of the ecosystem. If the actions that put excessive burden on the ecosystem can...
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Develo** an Integrated “Regression-QMRA method” to Predict Public Health Risks of Low Impact Developments (LIDs) for Improved Planning
Worldwide Low Impact Developments (LIDs) are used for sustainable stormwater management; however, both the stormwater and LIDs carry microbial...
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Water, sanitation, and hygiene global research: evolution, trends, and knowledge structure
Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services play a crucial role in promoting public and environmental health as well as social and economic...
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Plastic Waste Colonialism: A Typology of Global Toxicity
This chapter presents a typology of plastic waste colonialism ranging from “classical waste colonialism,” which characterized the formal colonial...
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Household illness and associated water and sanitation factors in peri-urban Lusaka, Zambia, 2016–2017
In Zambia limited access to adequate water and sanitation is a key developmental challenge, particularly for rapidly expanding peri-urban areas....
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Climate Change Impacts on Nutrition
Climate change threatens human health either directly through the effects of extreme weather events and ecosystem’s deviation, or indirect impacts on...