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Purpose in life and use of preventive health care services PNAS

WebThree factors converge to underscore the heightened importance of preventive health care services among United States adults. First, there is the rapidly …

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Brain on stress: How the social environment gets under the skin

WebThe brain is the central organ of stress and adaptation ().The social environment as well as the physical environment have powerful effects on the body and …

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The risk of losing health insurance in the United States is large, …

WebHealth insurance coverage in the United States is highly uncertain. In the post-Affordable Care Act (ACA), pre-COVID United States, we estimate that while 12.5% of individuals …

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Toward healthy and sustainable diets for the 21st century

WebAchieving healthy, sustainable, and equitable diets is the defining challenge for 21st-century food systems. Several decades of research have helped to understand the trade-offs …

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Human–environment interactions in population and ecosystem …

WebHuman–environment interactions in population and ecosystem health. As the global human population continues to grow, so too does our impact on the environment. …

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Public perceptions of the health risks of extreme heat across US …

WebExtreme heat events cause more deaths than any other weather-related hazard in the United States and are projected to become more frequent and intense over the 21st …

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An ecosystem service perspective on urban nature, physical

WebNature positively affects human health through several pathways, of which providing opportunities for PA is a widely recognized one (6, 10).Recent research demonstrates …

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Evolution and public health PNAS

WebEvolution and its elements of natural selection, population migration, genetic drift, and founder effects have shaped the world in which we practice public health. …

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Human health impacts of ecosystem alteration PNAS

WebAt least since Hippocrates wrote On Airs, Waters, and Places, the natural environment has been viewed as an important determinant of human health.However, …

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Climate change, human health, and resilience in the Holocene

WebClimate change is an indisputable threat to human health, especially for societies already confronted with rising social inequality, political and economic …

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Roger Guillemin (1924 to 2024): Discoverer of brain hormones that

WebEmotions coordinate our behavior and physiological states during survival-salient events and pleasurable interactions. Even though we are often consciously aware …

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Analysis and valuation of the health and climate change

WebRecent analyses have highlighted the environmental benefits of reducing the fraction of animal-sourced foods in our diets and have also suggested that such dietary …

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Impacts of climate change on future air quality and human health …

WebThe effects of future climate change on public health are an active and growing area of research, including the direct impacts of more severe heat waves (1, 2) …

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High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well …

WebA discussion of subjective well-being must recognize a distinction between two concepts that are often confounded (5–8).Emotional well-being (sometimes called …

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Optimism is associated with exceptional longevity in 2

WebThus, we tested whether higher optimism was associated with longer life span and greater likelihood of exceptional longevity. Data are from 2 cohorts, women …

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Health benefits of on-road transportation pollution control

WebOn-road vehicles have become a significant source of air pollution in Chinese cities. Air pollution in China has substantial impacts on public health and is thought to be …

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Empirical evidence of mental health risks posed by climate change

WebOver the past decade, scholars have highlighted the direct and indirect threats that climate change poses to mental health (13, 14).Warming is likely to amplify the frequency and …

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New evidence on the impact of sustained exposure to air

WebThis paper finds that a 10-μg/m 3 increase in airborne particulate matter [particulate matter smaller than 10 μm (PM 10)] reduces life expectancy by 0.64 years …

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Effects of fossil fuel and total anthropogenic emission removal on

WebThis could be up to 5.55 (4.52–6.52) million per year by additionally controlling nonfossil anthropogenic sources. Globally, fossil-fuel-related emissions …

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Air quality, health, and climate implications of China’s synthetic

WebSignificance. China’s coal-based synthetic natural gas (SNG) projects can reduce air pollution and associated premature mortality by substituting for direct coal use …

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