Public Health Stops at the School House Door
Conclusions
Recommendations from the Meeting’s Participants
In November 2015, Healthy Schools Network, Inc. convened the first national facilitated discussion of children’s environmental health in schools and child care centers (Healthy Schools Network 2015). The authors organized the meeting that consisted of a public forum with presentations from the U.S. EPA, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and indoor air researchers; a facilitated workshop was also organized and attended by representatives of more than two dozen federal and state health agencies, as well as an array of nongovernmen...
Source: EHP Research - September 30, 2016 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Web Admin Tags: Brief Communication October 2016 Source Type: research
Managing and Mitigating the Health Risks of Climate Change: Calling for Evidence-Informed Policy and Action
Conclusion
Epidemiologists need to develop and improve research and monitoring programs to better understand the scale and immediacy of the threat of climate change to human health and act to tackle climate impacts at local, regional, and global levels as these impacts may vary with geographic area and population. Both scientific and policy communities should work together to formulate effective public policy to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to its inevitable impacts not only in this generation and, more importantly, in future generations to come. To make this process more effective and efficient, epidemiolog...
Source: EHP Research - September 30, 2016 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Web Admin Tags: Brief Communication October 2016 Source Type: research
Airborne Fine Particles and Risk of Hospital Admissions for Understudied Populations: Effects by Urbanicity and Short-Term Cumulative Exposures in 708 U.S. Counties
Conclusion: In nonurban counties with population ≥50,000, exposure to PM2.5 is associated with increased risk for respiratory hospitalizations; in urban counties, exposure is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular hospitalizations. Effect estimates based on a single day of exposure may underestimate true effects for respiratory hospitalizations.
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Source: EHP Research - September 20, 2016 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Web Admin Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Individual and Joint Effects of Early-Life Ambient PM2.5 Exposure and Maternal Pre-Pregnancy Obesity on Childhood Overweight or Obesity
Conclusions: In this study, we observed that early-life PM2.5 exposures may play an important role in the early-life origins of COWO and may increase risk of COWO in children of mothers who were overweight or obese before pregnancy beyond the risk due to MPBMI alone. Our findings underscore the clinical and public health policy relevance of early-life PM2.5 exposures.
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Source: EHP Research - September 16, 2016 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Web Admin Tags: Children's Health Source Type: research
Gender-Dependent Effects of Cadmium Exposure in Early Life on Gut Microbiota and Fat Accumulation in Mice
Conclusions: An environmental dose of cadmium at early stages of life causes gut microbiota alterations, accelerates hepatic lipid metabolism, and leads to life-long metabolic consequences in a gender-dependent manner. These findings provide a better understanding of the health risk of cadmium in the environment.
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Source: EHP Research - September 16, 2016 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Web Admin Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
