Noncommunicable Diseases Air Pollution
Complex Air Pollution and Public Health. Living on Earth.
This podcast explores the health impacts of living near industrial facilities and petrochemical plants in the United States.
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Life Stage and Reproductive Health Noncommunicable Diseases
The impact of prematurity on pediatric asthma morbidity and indices with environmental pollution and genetic susceptibility. Communications Medicine.
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Life Stage and Reproductive Health Noncommunicable Diseases
Environmental toxicants in the Hispanic community epigenetically contributing to preeclampsia. Cardiovascular Toxicology.
This review shows that Hispanic women’s higher exposure to pollutants like air pollution, heavy metals, and plastics may raise the risk of serious pregnancy complications, contributing to racial disparities in maternal health.
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Noncommunicable Diseases Climate Change
How Climate Change and Extreme Weather can Hurt Your Health
This article explains how climate change and extreme weather harm physical and mental health. Experts, including PHA’s Sam Myers, highlight risks like heat illness, disease spread, food insecurity, disaster trauma, and climate anxiety.
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Noncommunicable Diseases Climate Change
Severe flooding and cause-specific hospitalisation among older adults in the USA: a retrospective matched cohort analysis. The Lancet Planetary Health.
This large-scale study examined over 4.5 million hospital records from adults over 65 in the U.S. and found that severe flooding was linked to higher hospitalization rates for skin, nervous system, and musculoskeletal diseases, and injuries.
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Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: Report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health. The Lancet.
