April 2025

Focusing on integrating Indigenous wisdom with modern health systems, this study explores sustainable, holistic models that unite complementary approaches to primary care, emphasizing equitable well-being, planetary health, and community-centered policy frameworks.

Researchers examined associations between air pollution exposure in early childhood and 16 outcomes spanning childhood and adolescence in a large birth cohort study.

This policy roadmap provides a clear roadmap for health ministries – especially in low- and middle-income countries – to address air pollution’s devastating health impacts.

Researchers ran a 1-week randomized controlled experiment to test the impact of nature-focused activities on people’s connectedness to nature and well-being.

Extensive use of different classes of antibiotics in hospitals, animal husbandry, veterinary, and aquaculture practices release substantial amounts of residual antibiotics into the environment, posing a potential hazard to the public and environmental health.

Scientists identified AKT1 as a node connecting environmental pollutants like BPA to bone health, and a therapeutic target. These findings underscore the complexity of osteoporosis pathophysiology and the importance of mitigating environmental pollutant exposure.

This paper provides a framework for machine learning model comparison, validation, and attribution to assist future studies in examining nonlinear relationships between urban characteristics and indoor air pollutants.

This study models Malaria transmission and provides a solution for common data inconsistencies encountered in healthcare and epidemiological research, while also offering predictions on incidence rates, thereby enabling more informed decision-making processes.

This study explored differences in AQI use and adherence among parents in British Columbia, Canada, and three US states, California, Oregon and Washington—jurisdictions that experience significant wildfire smoke seasons likely to worsen with climate change.

This study evaluates environmental costs in Greek public hospitals, focusing on energy, waste, and water expenditure. Regression analysis yields a predictive model to promote sustainable practices and efficiency, assisting reduction of the sector’s ecological footprint.

Evidence indicates that nature-based interventions can enhance personal health, strengthen community bonds, and improve ecosystem health. This protocol proposes the study of different intervention methods which promote holistic wellbeing.

Academic curricula—especially in medical education—must include Planetary Health to combat anthropogenic environmental threats to human health. This study explores Italian undergraduate medical students’ expectations and feedback regarding a newly introduced Planetary Health elective course.