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Turcu C, Crane M, Hutchinson E, Lloyd S, Belesova K, Wilkinson P, Davies M. A multi-scalar perspective on health and urban housing: an umbrella review. BUILDINGS & CITIES 2021; 2:734-758. [PMID: 34738085 PMCID: PMC7611930 DOI: 10.5334/bc.119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
With more than half the world's population living in cities, understanding how the built environment impacts human health at different urban scales is crucial. To be able to shape cities for health, an understanding is needed of planetary health impacts, which encompass the human health impacts of human-caused disruptions on the Earth's natural ecosystems. This umbrella review maps health evidence across the spatial scales of the built environment (building; neighbourhood; and wider system, including city, regional and planetary levels), with a specific focus on urban housing. Systematic reviews published in English between January 2011 and December 2020 were searched across 20 databases, with 1176 articles identified and 124 articles screened for inclusion. Findings suggests that most evidence reports on health determinants at the neighbourhood level, such as greenspace, physical and socio-economic conditions, transport infrastructure and access to local services. Physical health outcomes are also primarily reported, with an emerging interest in mental health outcomes. There is little evidence on planetary health outcomes and significant gaps in the research literature are identified. Based on these findings, three potential directions are identified for future research.
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- Catalina Turcu
- The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- The Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Public Health, Environments and Society, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
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- Climate and Health Programme (CLIMA), Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain
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- Public Health, Environments and Society, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
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- Public Health, Environments and Society, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
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- UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, London, UK
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Bounoure F, Mouly D, Beaudeau P, Bentayeb M, Chesneau J, Jones G, Skiba M, Lahiani-Skiba M, Galey C. Syndromic Surveillance of Acute Gastroenteritis Using the French Health Insurance Database: Discriminatory Algorithm and Drug Prescription Practices Evaluations. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2020; 17:ijerph17124301. [PMID: 32560168 PMCID: PMC7345322 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17124301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2020] [Revised: 06/12/2020] [Accepted: 06/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The French national public health agency (Santé publique France) has used data from the national health insurance reimbursement system (SNDS) to identify medicalised acute gastroenteritis (mAGE) for more than 10 years. This paper presents the method developed to evaluate this system: performance and characteristics of the discriminatory algorithm, portability in mainland and overseas French departments, and verification of the mAGE database updating process. Pharmacy surveys with certified mAGE from 2012 to 2015 were used to characterise mAGE and to estimate the sensitivity and predictive positive value (PPV) of the algorithm. Prescription characteristics from these pharmacy surveys and from 2014 SNDS prescriptions in six mainland and overseas departments were compared. The sensitivity (0.90) and PPV (0.82) did not vary according to the age of the population or year. Prescription characteristics were similar within all studied departments. This confirms that the algorithm can be used in all French departments, for both paediatric and adult populations, with stability and durability over time. The algorithm can identify mAGE cases at a municipal level. The validated system has been implemented in a national waterborne disease outbreaks surveillance system since 2019 with the aim of improving the prevention of infectious disease risk attributable to localised tap water systems.
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- Frederic Bounoure
- Laboratory of Pharmaceutical & Biopharmaceutical Technology, UFR of Health, Normandy University, Unirouen, 22 Bd Gambetta, 76183 Rouen Cedex, France; (M.S.); (M.L.-S.)
- DC2N, INSERM U1239, Unirouen, Normandy University, 76128 Mont Saint Aignan, France
- Correspondence:
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- Santé Publique France, French National Public Health Agency, F-94415 Saint-Maurice, France; (D.M.); (P.B.); (M.B.); (J.C.); (G.J.); (C.G.)
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- Santé Publique France, French National Public Health Agency, F-94415 Saint-Maurice, France; (D.M.); (P.B.); (M.B.); (J.C.); (G.J.); (C.G.)
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- Santé Publique France, French National Public Health Agency, F-94415 Saint-Maurice, France; (D.M.); (P.B.); (M.B.); (J.C.); (G.J.); (C.G.)
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- Santé Publique France, French National Public Health Agency, F-94415 Saint-Maurice, France; (D.M.); (P.B.); (M.B.); (J.C.); (G.J.); (C.G.)
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- Santé Publique France, French National Public Health Agency, F-94415 Saint-Maurice, France; (D.M.); (P.B.); (M.B.); (J.C.); (G.J.); (C.G.)
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- Laboratory of Pharmaceutical & Biopharmaceutical Technology, UFR of Health, Normandy University, Unirouen, 22 Bd Gambetta, 76183 Rouen Cedex, France; (M.S.); (M.L.-S.)
- DC2N, INSERM U1239, Unirouen, Normandy University, 76128 Mont Saint Aignan, France
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- Laboratory of Pharmaceutical & Biopharmaceutical Technology, UFR of Health, Normandy University, Unirouen, 22 Bd Gambetta, 76183 Rouen Cedex, France; (M.S.); (M.L.-S.)
- DC2N, INSERM U1239, Unirouen, Normandy University, 76128 Mont Saint Aignan, France
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- Santé Publique France, French National Public Health Agency, F-94415 Saint-Maurice, France; (D.M.); (P.B.); (M.B.); (J.C.); (G.J.); (C.G.)
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Muoio R, Caretti C, Rossi L, Santianni D, Lubello C. Letter to the Editor: Water safety plans and risk assessment: A novel procedure applied to treated water turbidity and gastrointestinal diseases. Int J Hyg Environ Health 2020; 229:113455. [PMID: 31992522 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2020.113455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- Roberta Muoio
- Research Fellow at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence, Italy.
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- Post Doc at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence, Italy
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- Water Resource Protection Department Director, Publiacqua SpA, Italy
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- Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence, Italy
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Setty K, Bartram J, De Roos AJ, Beaudeau P. Water safety plans and risk assessment: A novel procedure applied to treated water turbidity and gastrointestinal diseases. Int J Hyg Environ Health 2019; 229:113435. [PMID: 31882293 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2019.113435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2019] [Accepted: 12/11/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- Karen Setty
- ORISE at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, United States(1).
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- The Water Institute at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States; University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Water safety plans and risk assessment: A novel procedure applied to treated water turbidity and gastrointestinal diseases. Int J Hyg Environ Health 2019; 223:281-288. [PMID: 31523016 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2019.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2018] [Revised: 06/19/2019] [Accepted: 07/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Water Safety Plans (WSPs), as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), can help drinking water suppliers to identify potential hazards related to drinking water and enable improvements in public health outcomes. In this study we propose a procedure to evaluate the health risk related to turbidity in finished water by determining the cases of drinking water-related gastrointestinal diseases. The results of several epidemiological studies and three-year time series turbidity data, coming from three different drinking water treatment plants (WTPs) located in Tuscany (Italy), have been used to determine the relationship between drinking water turbidity and gastroenteritis incidence and to assess the health risk attributable to the turbidity of tap water. The turbidity variation occurring in the treated water during the monitored period showed an incremental risk compared to the baseline value from 9% to 27% in the three WTPs. Risk reduction due to each treatment step was also evaluated and it was found that a complete treatment train (clari-flocculation, sand filtration, activated carbon filtration and multi-step disinfection) reduces risk by over 600 times. Our approach is a useful tool for water suppliers to quantify health risks by considering time series data on turbidity at WTPs and to make decisions regarding risk management measures.
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Hales S. Climate change, extreme rainfall events, drinking water and enteric disease. REVIEWS ON ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 2019; 34:1-3. [PMID: 30796848 DOI: 10.1515/reveh-2019-2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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- Simon Hales
- Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand
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Drinking Water Quality and Human Health: An Editorial. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2019; 16:ijerph16040631. [PMID: 30795523 PMCID: PMC6406761 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16040631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2019] [Accepted: 02/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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