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Natural land cover positively correlates with COVID-19 health outcomes
BackgroundThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) poses special challenges for societies, as the disease causes millions of deaths. Although the...
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Associations Between Historical Redlining and Present-Day Heat Vulnerability Housing and Land Cover Characteristics in Philadelphia, PA
Historical, institutional racism within the housing market may have impacted present-day disparities in heat vulnerability. We quantified...
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Dispersal and Land Cover Contribute to Pseudorabies Virus Exposure in Invasive Wild Pigs
We investigated the landscape epidemiology of a globally distributed mammal, the wild pig ( Sus scrofa ), in Florida (U.S.), where it is considered an...
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Evaluating long-term and high spatiotemporal resolution of wet-bulb globe temperature through land-use based machine learning model
BackgroundThe increase in global temperature and urban warming has led to the exacerbation of heatwaves, which negatively affect human health and...
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Modeling Mosquitoes and their Potential Odonate Predators Under Different Land Uses
To efficiently face the accelerated landscape transformation and its consequences in restructuring biotic communities and ecosystem services, one...
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Association between Land Use Mix and Respiratory Symptoms and Asthma in Children from the Generation XXI Birth Cohort
Land use mix (LUM) in the neighbourhoods has been associated with healthier lifestyles. However, less is known about the association between LUM and...
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The Impact of Land Tenure Security on a Livelihood Intervention for People Living with HIV in Western Kenya
Few studies have explored land access, a structural driver of health, and women’s participation in livelihood interventions to improve food security...
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Combining crop-exposure matrices and land use data to estimate indices of environmental and occupational exposure to pesticides
BackgroundExposure assessment represents a major challenge for studies on the relation between pesticides and health.
ObjectiveWe developed a method...
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Water, land, and air: how do residents of Brazilian remote rural territories travel to access health services?
BackgroundEnsuring adequate and safe means of travel is essential for maintaining and improving the health and well-being of residents of rural...
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Predicting traffic noise using land-use regression—a scalable approach
BackgroundIn modern societies, noise is ubiquitous. It is an annoyance and can have a negative impact on human health as well as on the environment....
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Associations between ultraviolet radiation, tree cover and adolescent sunburns
BackgroundSunburn is the strongest risk factor for melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers. Adolescent sunburns are related to higher risk of...
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Opposing Patterns of Spatial Synchrony in Lyme Disease Incidence
Incidence of Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness prevalent in the US, is increasing in endemic regions and regions with no previous history of the...
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Map** the abundance of endemic mosquito-borne diseases vectors in southern Quebec
BackgroundClimate change is increasing the dispersion of mosquitoes and the spread of viruses of which some mosquitoes are the main vectors. In...
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Does a sprawling neighborhood affect obesity? Evidence from Indonesia
While the causes of obesity have been widely discussed from various perspectives, studies that examine how the physical form of a neighborhood could...
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Ecological Niche and Positive Clusters of Two West Nile Virus Vectors in Ontario, Canada
West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne pathogen associated with uncommon but severe neurological complications in humans, especially among the...
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Forest Restoration and the Zoonotic Vector Anopheles balabacensis in Sabah, Malaysia
Anthropogenic changes to forest cover have been linked to an increase in zoonotic diseases. In many areas, natural forests are being replaced with...
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Urban Magpies Frequently Feed on Coyote Scats and May Spread an Emerging Zoonotic Tapeworm
Allocoprophagy, in which animals feed on the feces of other individuals or species, has been little studied in vertebrates, despite its relevance to...
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Evaluating the accuracy of satellite-based methods to estimate residential proximity to agricultural crops
BackgroundEpidemiologic investigations increasingly employ remote sensing data to estimate residential proximity to agriculture as a means of...
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How climate, landscape, and economic changes increase the exposure of Echinococcus Spp.
BackgroundEchinococcosis is a global enzootic disease influenced by different biological and environmental factors and causes a heavy financial...
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Assessing the impact of urban environment and green infrastructure on mental health: results from the São Paulo Megacity Mental Health Survey
BackgroundDifferent land cover types in cities, including green areas, have impacts on mental health. Few studies, however, have been conducted in...
