Climate emergency and decent work
The climate crisis and loss of biodiversity, two closely related threats to human and planetary health, meet the criteria for the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare an international public health emergency, as occurred with COVID-19 (1), and urged by numerous scientific journals (2).
Attaining decent work, understood as “opportunities for women and men to work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity” (3), in the context of the climate emergency, creates a paradox for worker health. Outdoor workers (notably those in agriculture and construction), many of them informal workers, are among th...
Source: Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health - April 12, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
Urban environment and health: a cross-sectional multiregional project based on population health surveys in Spain (DAS-EP project) - study protocol
This study, Urban environment and health: a cross-sectional multiregional project based on population health surveys in Spain (DAS-EP project), aims to investigate the complex association between the urban environmental exposures (UrbEEs) and health.
Methods and analysis
DAS-EP is a Spanish multiregional cross-sectional project that combines population health surveys (PHS) and geographical information systems (GIS) allowing to collect rich individual-level data from 17 000 adult citizens participating in the PHS conducted in the autonomous regions of the Basque Country, Andalusia, and the Valencian Community, and the city...
Source: BMJ Open - March 29, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Bereziartua, A., Cabrera-Leon, A., Subiza-Perez, M., Garcia-Baquero, G., Delis Gomez, S., Ballester, F., Estarlich, M., Merelles, A., Esplugues, A., Irles, M. A., Barona, C., Mas, R., Font-Ribera, L., Bartoll, X., Perez, K., Oliveras, L., Binter, A.-C., D Tags: Open access, Mental health Source Type: research
Premature deaths from fine particles PM < sub > 2.5 < /sub > air pollution in regional capitals of Slovakia during 2016-2020 period
CONCLUSIONS: The estimated number of premature deaths from long-term exposure to particulate matter air pollution in the regional capitals decreased in the given period. The most of the regional capitals with the exception of Bratislava and Žilina, showed similar levels of estimated premature deaths. However, the current geopolitical situation and rising energy prices threaten return to solid fuel burning which is the largest source of particulate matter air pollution in Slovakia and thus reversing positive trends.PMID:38309703 | DOI:10.21101/cejph.a7748 (Source: Central European Journal of Public Health)
Source: Central European Journal of Public Health - February 3, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Adri án Ondrovič Source Type: research
