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Hall J, Zhong J, Jowett S, Mazzeo A, Thomas GN, Bryson JR, Dewar S, Inglis N, Wolstencroft M, Muller C, Bloss W, Harrison R, Bartington S. Regional impact assessment of air quality improvement: The air quality lifecourse assessment tool (AQ-LAT) for the West Midlands combined authority (WMCA). ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2024:123871. [PMID: 38729507 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2024.123871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2024] [Revised: 03/20/2024] [Accepted: 03/24/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024]
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Poor air quality is the largest environmental health risk in England. In the West Midlands, UK, ∼2.9 million people are affected by air pollution with an average loss in life expectancy of up to 6 months. The 2021 Environment Act established a legal framework for local authorities in England to develop regional air quality plans, generating a policy need for predictive environmental impact assessment tools. In this context, we developed a novel Air Quality Lifecourse Assessment Tool (AQ-LAT) to estimate electoral ward-level impacts of PM2.5 and NO2 exposure on outcomes of interest to local authorities, namely morbidity (asthma, coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, lung cancer), mortality, and associated healthcare costs. We apply the Tool to assess the health economic burden of air pollutant exposure and estimate benefits that would be generated by meeting WHO 2021 Global Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs) (annual average concentrations) for NO2 (10 μg/m3) and PM2.5 (5 μg/m3) in the West Midlands Combined Authority Area. All West Midlands residents live in areas which exceed WHO AQGs, with 2070 deaths, 2070 asthma diagnoses, 770 CHD diagnoses, 170 lung cancers and 650 strokes attributable to air pollution exposure annually. Reducing PM2.5 and NO2 concentrations to WHO AQGs would save 10,700 lives reducing regional mortality by 1.8%, gaining 92,000 quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), and preventing 20,500 asthma, 7400 CHD, 1400 lung cancer, and 5700 stroke diagnoses, with economic benefits of £3.2 billion over 20 years. Significantly, we estimate 30% of QALY gains relate to reduced disease burden. The AQ-LAT has major potential to be replicated across local authorities in England and applied to inform regional investment decisions.
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- James Hall
- Health Economics Unit, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK; Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- Health Economics Unit, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK; Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- Department of Strategy and International Business, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B152TT, UK
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- Coventry City Council, Earl Street, Coventry, CV1 5RR, UK
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- Coventry City Council, Earl Street, Coventry, CV1 5RR, UK
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- School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK; Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
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Domingues RC, Gurgel ADM, Santos RCD, Pereira JADS, Bezerra VCR, Souza WVD, Santos MOSD, Gurgel IGD. [Burning of sugarcane biomass and hospitalizations of children and older adults for respiratory problems in Pernambuco State, Brazil]. CAD SAUDE PUBLICA 2023; 39:e00238422. [PMID: 37971101 PMCID: PMC10645060 DOI: 10.1590/0102-311xpt238422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2022] [Revised: 04/27/2023] [Accepted: 06/28/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023] Open
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This study aimed to analyze the relationship between hospitalizations for respiratory problems and the regular burning of sugarcane in Pernambuco State, Brazil. This is an ecological time series study corresponding to the period from 2008 to 2018. The rates of hospitalizations for respiratory diseases in children aged under 5 years and in adults older than 60 years in sugarcane-producing and non-producing municipalities were compared using nonparametric Mann-Whitney statistical analysis. Together, we observed the monthly distribution of the hot spots occurrences in the case and control municipalities and applied Pearson's correlation to analyze the association between both variables. For both age groups, hospitalization rates are higher in sugarcane-producing municipalities, with a statistically significant difference p < 0.005. The rate of hospitalization in older adults is 28% higher in the case municipalities, and is even higher in children aged under 5 years whose ratio of the medians is 40%. However, the seasonal behavior of hospitalizations for respiratory diseases differs from that observed in the monthly distribution of hot spots, without statistically significant correlation. These findings suggest a possible association with chronic exposure to particulates emitted by biomass burning, compromising the health of vulnerable groups, and endorse the need to replace fires in the monoculture of sugarcane and to structure public policies to protect human and environmental health.
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- Instituto Aggeu Magalhães, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Recife, Brasil
- Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brasil
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Moamer S, Faradmal J, Leili M. Short-term effects of air pollution on hospital admissions of respiratory diseases in Hamadan, Iran, 2015 to 2021. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2023; 30:97900-97910. [PMID: 37603242 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-29328-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2023] [Accepted: 08/09/2023] [Indexed: 08/22/2023]
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The short-term effects of air pollution on respiratory diseases have been reported in many countries. Urban areas are most affected because of the many sources of pollution and the large number of people living there. This study aims to investigate the effect of short-term exposure to air pollutants on respiratory hospital admissions in the city of Hamadan. In this ecological study, daily hospital admission data were collected from Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Hamadan. Daily information on air pollutants (CO, SO2, NO2, O3, PM2.5 and PM10) from Hamadan Department of Environment (DoE) organization and of climate factors from Hamadan Meteorological Office were collected. A negative binomial regression model was used to examine the effect of air pollution on daily respiratory hospitalizations. The effect of exposure to pollutants was measured whit different time lags (0-7 days). Furthermore, the effect of meteorological variables was controlled. Subgroup analyses were performed by sex and age group. A total of 12,454 hospitalizations for respiratory diseases were recorded. Results showed a strong and immediate effect of CO on respiratory hospital admissions with highest association at lag 7 (relative risk (RR) = 1.38, 95% CI: 1.33, 1.42). The effects of CO and SO2 on respiratory hospitalizations are greater for men than women. Regarding the short-term effects of PM2.5, SO2 and O3, adults (aged less than 65) were more prone to hospitalization for respiratory diseases. These results show that exposure to air pollution, particularly CO, may increase hospital admissions due to respiratory illness. So reducing the concentration of these pollutants can reduce the number of hospital admissions.
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- Soraya Moamer
- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
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- Modeling of Noncommunicable Diseases Research Center, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
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- Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health and Research Center for Health Sciences, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
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González-Iglesias V, Martínez-Pérez I, Rodríguez Suárez V, Fernández-Somoano A. Spatial distribution of hospital admissions for asthma in the central area of Asturias, Northern Spain. BMC Public Health 2023; 23:787. [PMID: 37118792 PMCID: PMC10141842 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-15731-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2021] [Accepted: 04/22/2023] [Indexed: 04/30/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Asturias is one of the communities with the highest rates of hospital admission for asthma in Spain. The environmental pollution or people lifestyle are some of the factors that contribute to the appearance or aggravation of this illness. The aim of this study was to show the spatial distribution of asthma admissions risks in the central municipalities of Asturias and to analyze the observed spatial patterns. METHODS Urgent hospital admissions for asthma and status asthmaticus occurred between 2016 to 2018 on the public hospitals of the central area of Asturias were used. Population data were assigned in 5 age groups. Standardised admission ratio (SAR), smoothed relative risk (SRR) and posterior risk probability (PP) were calculated for each census tract (CT). A spatial trend analysis was run, a spatial autocorrelation index (Morans I) was calculated and a cluster and outlier analysis (Anselin Local Morans I) was finally performed in order to analyze spatial clusters. RESULTS The total number of hospital urgent asthma admissions during the study period was 2324, 1475 (63.46%) men and 849 (36.56%) women. The municipalities with the highest values of SRR and PP were located on the northwest area: Avilés, Gozón, Carreño, Corvera de Asturias, Castrillón and Illas. A high risk cluster was found for the municipalities of Avilés, Gozón y Corvera de Asturias. CONCLUSIONS The spatial analysis showed high risk of hospitalization for asthma on the municipalities of the northwest area of the study, which highlight the existence of spatial inequalities on the distribution of urgent hospital admissions.
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- Verónica González-Iglesias
- Departamento de Medicina, IUOPA-Área de Medicina Preventiva Y Salud Pública, Universidad de Oviedo. C/Julián Clavería S/N, 33006, Oviedo (Asturias), Spain
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- Departamento de Medicina, IUOPA-Área de Medicina Preventiva Y Salud Pública, Universidad de Oviedo. C/Julián Clavería S/N, 33006, Oviedo (Asturias), Spain.
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- Dirección General de Salud Pública, Consejería de Salud, Principado de Asturias, C/ Ciriaco Miguel Vigil, 9, 33006, Oviedo, Spain
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- Departamento de Medicina, IUOPA-Área de Medicina Preventiva Y Salud Pública, Universidad de Oviedo. C/Julián Clavería S/N, 33006, Oviedo (Asturias), Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología Y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Avenida Monforte de Lemos, 3-5, 28029, Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Principado de Asturias (ISPA), Avenida Roma, S/N, 33001, Oviedo, Spain
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Ruvira G, Ruvira-Durante J, Cosín-Sales J, Marín-García PJ, Llobat L. Environmental gaseous pollutants are related to increase of acute coronary syndrome in Valencia region. Med Clin (Barc) 2023:S0025-7753(23)00160-4. [PMID: 37088610 DOI: 10.1016/j.medcli.2023.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2023] [Revised: 03/11/2023] [Accepted: 03/15/2023] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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INTRODUCTION AND AIMS Environmental pollution are one of the most relevant risk factors to atherosclerosis. To know awareness about the importance of urban air pollution as a trigger for hospital admission due to acute coronary syndrome (ACS), this study analyzed levels of different gaseous air pollutants in the air and its correlation with number of ACS. METHODS Epidemiological data of patients admitted for ACS in five towns during the years 2006-2008 were recovered. Clinical data regarding admissions for ACS were obtained from the hospital admission services. Measures of seven air contaminants were recovered from the environmental stations. Mixed model including sex, age, location, and the average levels of air pollutants contaminants as fixed effects and its interaction were performed. RESULTS The incidence rate of ACS is higher in man than woman, and higher in older people than young. The maximum ACS were in the last trimester of the year, was the most elevated levels of gaseous pollutants have been found. Levels of NO2, NO, and CO are positively correlated between them, and negatively correlated with O3 levels. All air pollutants analyzed increase the number of ACS hospital admission in the five locations evaluated. CONCLUSIONS Levels of gaseous pollutants are related between them, being the levels of NO2, NO, and CO, positively correlated, and negatively correlated with levels of O3. Number of ACS hospital admission increases with levels of five air gaseous pollutants studied.
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- Guillem Ruvira
- Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU, CEU Universities, Valencia, Spain
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- Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Arnau de Vilanova, Valencia, Spain
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- Departamento de Producción y Sanidad Animal, Salud Pública y Ciencia y Tecnología de los Alimentos, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU, CEU Universities, Valencia, Spain
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- Departamento de Producción y Sanidad Animal, Salud Pública y Ciencia y Tecnología de los Alimentos, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU, CEU Universities, Valencia, Spain.
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Benito-Lozano M, López-Ayala P, Rodríguez S, Llorens P, Domínguez-Rodríguez A, Aguirre A, Alquézar A, Jacob J, Gil V, Martín-Sánchez FJ, Mir M, Andueza JA, Burillo-Putze G, Miró Ò. Analysis of the relationship between ambient air pollution and the severity of heart failure decompensations in two Spanish metropolises (Barcelona and Madrid). Med Clin (Barc) 2023:S0025-7753(23)00143-4. [PMID: 37055253 DOI: 10.1016/j.medcli.2023.02.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2022] [Revised: 02/23/2023] [Accepted: 02/26/2023] [Indexed: 04/15/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To analyze whether the high levels of air pollutants are related to a greater severity of decompensated heart failure (HF). METHOD Patients diagnosed with decompensated HF in the emergency department of 4 hospitals in Barcelona and 3 in Madrid were included. Clinical data (age, sex, comorbidities, baseline functional status), atmospheric (temperature, atmospheric pressure) and pollutant data (SO2, NO2, CO, O3, PM10, PM2.5) were collected in the city on the day of emergency care. The severity of decompensation was estimated using 7-day mortality (primary indicator) and the need for hospitalization, in-hospital mortality, and prolonged hospitalization (secondary indicators). The association adjusted for clinical, atmospheric and city data between pollutant concentration and severity was investigated using linear regression (linearity assumption) and restricted cubic spline curves (no linearity assumption). RESULTS A total of 5292 decompensations were included, with a median age of 83 years (IQR=76-88) and 56% women. The medians (IQR) of the daily pollutant averages were: SO2=2.5μg/m3 (1.4-7.0), NO2=43μg/m3 (34-57), CO=0.48mg/m3 (0.35-0.63), O3=35μg/m3 (25-48), PM10=22μg/m3 (15-31) and PM2.5=12μg/m3 (8-17). Mortality at 7 days was 3.9%, and hospitalization, in-hospital mortality, and prolonged hospitalization were 78.9, 6.9, and 47.5%, respectively. SO2 was the only pollutant that showed a linear association with the severity of decompensation, since each unit of increase implied an OR for the need for hospitalization of 1.04 (95% CI 1.01-1.08). The restricted cubic spline curves study also did not show clear associations between pollutants and severity, except for SO2 and hospitalization, with OR of 1.55 (95% CI 1.01-2.36) and 2.71 (95% CI 1.13-6.49) for concentrations of 15 and 24μg/m3, respectively, in relation to a reference concentration of 5μg/m3. CONCLUSION Exposure to ambient air pollutants, in a medium to low concentration range, is generally not related to the severity of HF decompensations, and only NO2 may be associated with an increased need for hospitalization.
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB) and Cardiology Department, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Suiza
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- Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología (IPNA), CSIC, La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, España
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- Servicio de Urgencias, Corta Estancia y Hospitalización a Domicilio, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Universidad Miguel Hernández, Alicante, España
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- Servicio de Urgencias, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, España
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- Servicio de Urgencias, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, España
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- Servicio de Urgencias, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, España
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- Área de Urgencias, Hospital Clínic, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, España
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- Servicio de Urgencias, Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor, Madrid, España
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- Servicio de Urgencias, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, España
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- Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Europea de Canarias, La Orotava, Tenerife, España.
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- Área de Urgencias, Hospital Clínic, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, España
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Díaz-Martínez F, Sánchez-Sauco MF, Cabrera-Rivera LT, Sánchez CO, Hidalgo-Albadalejo MD, Claudio L, Ortega-García JA. Systematic Review: Neurodevelopmental Benefits of Active/Passive School Exposure to Green and/or Blue Spaces in Children and Adolescents. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2023; 20:3958. [PMID: 36900969 PMCID: PMC10001910 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20053958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2023] [Revised: 02/18/2023] [Accepted: 02/21/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Today more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas. Children spend about 40 h a week in the school environment. Knowing the influence of school exposure to green/blue spaces could improve the children's health, creating healthier environments and preventing exposure to legal/illegal drugs. This systematic review summarized the main results of published studies on active or passive exposure to green or blue spaces in different domains of child neurodevelopment. In August 2022, five databases were searched and twenty-eight eligible studies were included in the analysis. Cognitive and/or academic performance was the most frequently studied (15/28). Most studies evaluate passive exposure to green/blue spaces (19/28) versus active exposure (9/28). Only three studies addressed the relationship between blue space and neurodevelopment. The main results point toward mixed evidence of a protective relationship between green/blue space exposure and neurodevelopment, especially in improving cognitive/academic performance, attention restoration, behavior, and impulsivity. Renaturalizing school spaces and promoting "greener" capacities for school environmental health could improve children's neurodevelopment. There was great heterogeneity in methodologies and adjustment for confounding factors across studies. Future research should seek a standardized approach to delivering school environmental health interventions beneficial to children's development.
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- Francisco Díaz-Martínez
- Paediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Clinical University Hospital Virgen of Arrixaca, University of Murcia, 30120 Murcia, Spain
- Environment and Human Health Lab, Instituto Murciano de Investigación Sanitaria (IMIB), University of Murcia, 30120 Murcia, Spain
- Global Alliance to Renaturalize Child and Adolescent Health (GreenRooting.org), Spanish Association of Pediatrics, 28009 Madrid, Spain
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- Paediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Clinical University Hospital Virgen of Arrixaca, University of Murcia, 30120 Murcia, Spain
- Environment and Human Health Lab, Instituto Murciano de Investigación Sanitaria (IMIB), University of Murcia, 30120 Murcia, Spain
- Global Alliance to Renaturalize Child and Adolescent Health (GreenRooting.org), Spanish Association of Pediatrics, 28009 Madrid, Spain
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- Global Alliance to Renaturalize Child and Adolescent Health (GreenRooting.org), Spanish Association of Pediatrics, 28009 Madrid, Spain
- International Exchange Program for Minority Students, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
- Department of Environmental Health, University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, PR 00921, USA
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- International Exchange Program for Minority Students, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Division of International Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Paediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Clinical University Hospital Virgen of Arrixaca, University of Murcia, 30120 Murcia, Spain
- Environment and Human Health Lab, Instituto Murciano de Investigación Sanitaria (IMIB), University of Murcia, 30120 Murcia, Spain
- Global Alliance to Renaturalize Child and Adolescent Health (GreenRooting.org), Spanish Association of Pediatrics, 28009 Madrid, Spain
- International Exchange Program for Minority Students, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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Ortega-García JA, Sánchez-Sauco MF, Zafra-Rodríguez JA, Cabrera-Rivera LT, Díaz-Martínez F, Llegus-Santiago EM, Delgado-Marín JL, Orenes-Piñero E, Kloosterman N, Bach A, Ojeda-Sánchez C, Ramis R. Subjective well-being, happiness, and environmental health factors related to women planning a pregnancy or pregnant, using mobile health intervention. Digit Health 2023; 9:20552076231177146. [PMID: 37284011 PMCID: PMC10240876 DOI: 10.1177/20552076231177146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2022] [Accepted: 05/04/2023] [Indexed: 06/08/2023] Open
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Objectives To compare the environmental health results in women trying to get pregnant or pregnant using a mobile health application (Green Page) through healthcare professionals or self-completed by women, and to explore the relationship between the subjective well-being of these women with their lifestyles and environmental factors. Methods A descriptive study with mixed methods was conducted in 2018. A mobile health survey was used in two phases. Phase 1 was a cross-sectional study through professionals (n = 1100) followed by phase 2, a convenience sampling through women's self-reporting (n = 3425). A personalized report was downloadable with health recommendations for the well-being of the mother and child. Results Of the 3205 participants (mean age = 33 years, SD = 0.2 years), 1840 were planning a pregnancy and 1365 were pregnant. One in five pregnant women had a low level of happiness. Globally, subjective well-being and happiness were found to be negatively associated with lack of contact with nature, sedentary lifestyle, excess weight, environmental exposure, and older age in pregnancy. Precisely 45%, 60%, and 14% of women were exposed to tobacco, alcohol, and illegal drugs, respectively. The women self-reported levels of risk factors higher than when the tool was used by or through professionals. Conclusions The use of mobile health interventions focused on environmental health during planning or pregnancy periods could help improve the quality of healthcare and foster greater involvement of women in their self-care process, thus promoting empowerment, healthier environments, and lifestyles. Ensuring equity of access and data protection are global challenges to be addressed.
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- Juan Antonio Ortega-García
- Department of Pediatrics, Global Alliance to Renaturalize Child and Adolescent Health (GreenRooting.org), Spanish Association of Pediatrics, IMIB Arrixaca, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
- Pediatric Environmental Health Speciality Unit (PEHSU), Department of Pediatrics, Clinical University Hospital Virgen of Arrixaca, El Palmar, Murcia, Spain
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- Department of Pediatrics, Global Alliance to Renaturalize Child and Adolescent Health (GreenRooting.org), Spanish Association of Pediatrics, IMIB Arrixaca, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
- Pediatric Environmental Health Speciality Unit (PEHSU), Department of Pediatrics, Clinical University Hospital Virgen of Arrixaca, El Palmar, Murcia, Spain
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- Department of Pediatrics, Global Alliance to Renaturalize Child and Adolescent Health (GreenRooting.org), Spanish Association of Pediatrics, IMIB Arrixaca, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
- TICARUM, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Department of Pediatrics, Global Alliance to Renaturalize Child and Adolescent Health (GreenRooting.org), Spanish Association of Pediatrics, IMIB Arrixaca, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
- Department of Environmental Health, University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- International Exchange Program for Minority Student, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Global Alliance to Renaturalize Child and Adolescent Health (GreenRooting.org), Spanish Association of Pediatrics, IMIB Arrixaca, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
- Pediatric Environmental Health Speciality Unit (PEHSU), Department of Pediatrics, Clinical University Hospital Virgen of Arrixaca, El Palmar, Murcia, Spain
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- Department of Pediatrics, Global Alliance to Renaturalize Child and Adolescent Health (GreenRooting.org), Spanish Association of Pediatrics, IMIB Arrixaca, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
- Department of Environmental Health, University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- International Exchange Program for Minority Student, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen Arrixaca, Fetal Medicine Unit Murcia, IMIB Arrixaca, Región de Murcia, Spain
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- Department of Pediatrics, Global Alliance to Renaturalize Child and Adolescent Health (GreenRooting.org), Spanish Association of Pediatrics, IMIB Arrixaca, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
- Departament of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Department of Pediatrics, Global Alliance to Renaturalize Child and Adolescent Health (GreenRooting.org), Spanish Association of Pediatrics, IMIB Arrixaca, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
- MUSC Health University Medical Center, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Global Alliance to Renaturalize Child and Adolescent Health (GreenRooting.org), Spanish Association of Pediatrics, IMIB Arrixaca, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
- Environment and Human Health Laboratory (EH2 Lab), Forest Science and Technology Center of Catalonia, Solsona, Spain
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- Department of Pediatrics, Global Alliance to Renaturalize Child and Adolescent Health (GreenRooting.org), Spanish Association of Pediatrics, IMIB Arrixaca, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Hospital General Universitario de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Spain
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- Department of Pediatrics, Global Alliance to Renaturalize Child and Adolescent Health (GreenRooting.org), Spanish Association of Pediatrics, IMIB Arrixaca, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
- Cancer and Environmental Epidemiology Unit, National Epidemiology Centre, Carlos III Health Institute and Centre for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology & Public Health (CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública−CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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Xu H, Wang X, Tian Y, Tian J, Zeng Y, Guo Y, Song F, Xu X, Ni X, Feng G. Short-term exposure to gaseous air pollutants and daily hospitalizations for acute upper and lower respiratory infections among children from 25 cities in China. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2022; 212:113493. [PMID: 35618009 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.113493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2022] [Revised: 04/29/2022] [Accepted: 05/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
To examine the short-term association between gaseous air pollutants (CO, NO2, SO2, and O3) and all-cause respiratory disease, acute upper respiratory infections (AURIs) as well as acute lower respiratory infections (ALRIs) among children, we conducted the study from 25 major cities in China. Hospitalization records of children aged 0-18 years due to all-cause respiratory diseases (889,926), AURIs (97,858), and ALRIs (642,154) from 2016 to 2019 were extracted. Concentrations of CO, NO2, SO2, and O3 were averaged across monitoring stations. Generalized additive models were used to estimate the associations between gaseous air pollutants and daily hospitalizations for all-cause respiratory disease, AURIs, and ALRIs. The meta-analysis was used to combine the city-specific estimates. A 10 mg/m3 increase in CO at lag01, and a 10 μg/m3 increase in NO2, SO2, and O3 at lag01 were associated with 1.65% (95%CI, 0.41-2.91), 0.54% (95%CI, 0.30-0.79), 0.60% (95%CI, 0.22-0.99), and 0.23% (95%CI, 0.06-0.39) increase of hospitalizations due to all-cause respiratory disease, respectively. For the disease subtype, O3 only had adverse effects on AURIs, CO and SO2 mainly on ALRIs, and NO2 on both AURIs and ALRIs. Children aged 4-6years were more vulnerable to the effects of CO and NO2, but those aged <1year were more susceptible to SO2 and O3. Besides, the O3 effect was stronger in the warm season than in the cold season. The study indicated that short-term exposure to CO, NO2, SO2, and O3 was associated with increased hospitalization for pediatric respiratory disease, and the association may vary by position of the respiratory tract, age, and season.
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- Hui Xu
- Big Data Center, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, China
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- Big Data Center, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, China
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- Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Big Data Center, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, China
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- Medical Record Management Office, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Pediatric Diseases of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, China
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- Medical Record Management Office, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, China
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- Big Data Center, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, China
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- Big Data Center, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, China; Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, Beihang University & Capital Medical University, Beijing, China; Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, China.
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- Big Data Center, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, China; Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, Beihang University & Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
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Zhao D, Chen M, Shi K, Ma M, Huang Y, Shen J. A long short-term memory-fully connected (LSTM-FC) neural network for predicting the incidence of bronchopneumonia in children. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2021; 28:56892-56905. [PMID: 34076817 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-14632-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2021] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
Bronchopneumonia is the most common infectious disease in children, and it seriously endangers children's health. In this paper, a deep neural network combining long short-term memory (LSTM) layers and fully connected layers was proposed to predict the prevalence of bronchopneumonia in children in Chengdu based on environmental factors and previous prevalence rates. The mean square error (MSE), mean absolute error (MAE), and Pearson correlation coefficient (R) were used to detect the performance of the deep learning model. The values of MSE, MAE, and R in the test dataset are 0.0051, 0.053, and 0.846, respectively. The results show that the proposed model can accurately predict the prevalence of bronchopneumonia in children. We also compared the proposed model with three other models, namely, a fully connected (FC) layer neural network, a random forest model, and a support vector machine. The results show that the proposed model achieves better performance than the three other models by capturing time series and mitigating the lag effect.
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- Dongzhe Zhao
- Chongqing Jinfo Mountain Karst Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
- Chongqing Engineering Research Center for Remote Sensing Big Data Application, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment (Ministry of Education), Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 210046, China
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- Chongqing Jinfo Mountain Karst Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
- Chongqing Engineering Research Center for Remote Sensing Big Data Application, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Chongqing Jinfo Mountain Karst Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
- Chongqing Engineering Research Center for Remote Sensing Big Data Application, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Chongqing Jinfo Mountain Karst Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
- Chongqing Engineering Research Center for Remote Sensing Big Data Application, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Chongqing Jinfo Mountain Karst Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China.
- Chongqing Engineering Research Center for Remote Sensing Big Data Application, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China.
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Rodríguez-Orozco AR, Galeana-Osuna EG, Bollo-Manent M, Figueroa-Núñez B. [Spatial analysis of asthma morbidity in the city of Morelia, Mexico, for the decade 2000-2010]. Aten Primaria 2020; 52:578-579. [PMID: 32828557 PMCID: PMC7505897 DOI: 10.1016/j.aprim.2020.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2020] [Accepted: 06/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Alain R Rodríguez-Orozco
- Facultad de Ciencias Médicas y Biológicas Dr. Ignacio Chávez, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas en Temas de Familia, Alergia e Inmunología, Morelia, Michoacán, México.
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- Facultad de Quimicofarmacobiología, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, México
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- Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Michoacán, México
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