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Effects of Prolonged Exposure to Air Pollution and Neighborhood

WebAir pollution is a significant environmental and public health concern. Despite notable improvements in ambient air quality in the United States following the …

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Nature Contact and Human Health: A Research Agenda

WebBackground: At a time of increasing disconnectedness from nature, scientific interest in the potential health benefits of nature contact has grown. Research in recent decades has …

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A Delicate Balance: Water Disinfection and By-Product …

WebThe routine chlorination of drinking water to kill pathogens and prevent diseases was one of the most successful public health advances of the twentieth …

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Current State of the Science: Health Effects and Indoor …

WebOur understanding of health effects related to the indoor environment has evolved over the past decade. In the past, discussions of indoor environmental quality …

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Pollution and Global Health – An Agenda for Prevention

WebSummary: Pollution is a major, overlooked, global health threat that was responsible in 2015 for an estimated 9 million deaths and great economic losses. To end …

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Climate Change, Human Health, and Social Stability: Addressing

WebBackground: Abundant historical evidence demonstrates how environmental changes can affect social stability and, in turn, human health. A rapidly growing body of …

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The Emergence of Environmental Health Literacy—From Its Roots …

WebBackground:Environmental health literacy (EHL) is coalescing into a new subdiscipline that combines key principles and procedural elements from the fields of risk …

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Down to Earth: The Emerging Field of Planetary Health

WebFrom this realization has come another new term: planetary health.2 There is significant overlap between planetary health and traditional environmental health; both …

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About Environmental Health Perspectives

WebEnvironmental Health Perspectives ( EHP) is a monthly journal of environmental health research and news published with support from the National Institute of Environmental …

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Development of a Phthalate Environmental Reproductive Health …

WebEnvironmental health literacy (EHL) is a process and methodology that evaluates and characterizes the ways in which environmental health information is attended, …

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Arsenic and Environmental Health: State of the Science and Future

WebBackground:Exposure to inorganic and organic arsenic compounds is a major public health problem that affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide. …

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The Interplay of Environmental Exposures and Mental Health: …

WebBackground: To date, health-effects research on environmental stressors has rarely focused on behavioral and mental health outcomes. That lack of research is …

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Suspect-Screening Analysis of Environmental Chemicals in Paired …

WebStudies have reported that numerous environmental contaminants may cross the blood–brain barrier into the central nervous system (CNS), 1 some of which may …

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Benefits of Sunlight: A Bright Spot for Human Health

WebHowever, excessive UVR exposure accounts for only 0.1% of the total global burden of disease in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), according to the 2006 World …

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Humidity’s Role in Heat-Related Health Outcomes: A Heated Debate

WebWe hypothesize six key reasons epidemiological studies have found little impact of humidity on heat–health outcomes: a) At high temperatures, there may be …

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WebQuantifying Disparities in Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Levels in Drinking Water from Overburdened Communities in New Jersey, 2019–2021. Rosie …

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Increasing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Ambient Air Pollution

WebBackground: Ambient nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and fine particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter ≤2.5μm (PM2.5) threaten public health in the US, and systemic racism has led …

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A Hazard-Based Framework for Identifying Safer Alternatives to …

WebBackground: Humans are exposed to hazardous chemicals found in consumer products. In 2019, the Pollution Prevention for Healthy People and Puget Sound Act was …

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Broadening the Environmental Lens to Include Social and …

WebBackground: Due to the physical, metabolic, and hormonal changes before, during, and after pregnancy, women—defined here as people assigned female at …

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Invited Perspective: A Natural Prescription for Hypertension

WebClearly, more intensive work is required to identify a) how the potential beneficial health effects of greenness vary at the neighborhood scale as opposed to the …

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A Delicate Balance: Water Disinfection and By-Product …

WebQin M, Huang L, Li M, Shao T, Zhang J, Jiang X, et al. 2023. Immunotoxicity evaluation of trihalophenolic disinfection by-products in mouse and human mononuclear …

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Association between leptin and sleep quality of shipyard workers

WebBACKGROUND AND AIM: This study explores the association between leptin and sleep quality among shipyard workers exposed to metal fume particulates. …

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Characterizing Important Dietary Exposure Sources of …

WebBackground: Previous studies have identified the consumption of country foods (hunted/harvested foods from the land) as the primary exposure source of perfluoroalkyl …

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