Human health and the environment are inextricably linked at local, national and global scales. Exposure to environmental issues, such as pollution, climate change, extreme heat events and poor water ...
David Dyjack, executive director of the National Environmental Health Association, notes that environmental health — the field concerned with the relationship between the natural and manmade ...
When one thinks about a diverse environment, indoor areas usually don’t come to mind. However, indoor environments are ripe for microorganisms, which can enter on humans and via exchanges with outdoor ...
Understanding the impacts of diets on health and the environment, as well as their association with socio-economic development, is key to operationalize and monitor food systems shifts. Here we ...
Sustainable food systems rely on healthy animals, safe food production, and balanced interactions among animals, humans, and ...
Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) focus on protecting human health from environmental and occupational pollutants and exposures, such as those that arise from poor outdoor and indoor air quality, ...
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In a conversation with Luciana Julião, environment editor at The Conversation Brasil, during COP30 in Belém, Fiocruz researcher and environmental health specialist Sandra Hacon explained why the ...
The paradigm of modern public health is shifting toward a multi-dimensional understanding of how environmental and genetic factors interact to shape human ...
A new data tool from researchers at UCLA highlights significant environmental health disparities between Latino and white neighborhoods in L.A., providing critical insights amid escalating public ...
The converging global challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change have brought to the forefront the need to look at human and environmental health as one. To better understand what other ...
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