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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Environment and Health

Environment and Health current awareness bulletin

Frequency: Bi-monthly

Links to articles in the current and previous 2 issues of this bulletin are displayed below.

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January 2025

The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action

The “6th R” of sustainability: repurposing operating room waste for community benefit

Air quality and mental illness: role of bioaerosols, causal mechanisms and research priorities

Association of greenspace and natural environment with brain volumes mediated by lifestyle and biomarkers among urban residents

Associations between gestational exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances, fetal growth, and the mediation effect of thyroid hormones

The carbon footprint of the perioperative transurethral resection of bladder tumour pathway

Climate change, floods, and human health (NEJM special report)

The correlates of environmental initiatives in sports organizations with climate change attitudes and subjective well-being

Democratise and decolonise to decarbonise: how to reap health and climate benefits of transport infrastructure in Africa

The effects of climate change on rheumatic conditions—an evolving landscape and a path forward

Effects of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances on the liver: human-relevant mechanisms of toxicity

Frontline clinic perspectives on climate change, human health, and resilience: a national cross-sectional survey

Global, regional, and national mortality burden attributable to air pollution from landscape fires: a health impact assessment study

How climate change made 2024 the deadliest year of dengue

How much does the fossil fuel industry fund medical research? (BMJ investigation)

Maui wildfire and 988 suicide and crisis lifeline call volume and capacity

My climate journey: one cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist’s account and a commentary linking to the scientific and practice literature

Neurotoxicity of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances: evidence and future directions

Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) accelerate biological aging mediated by increased C-reactive protein

Reducing the carbon footprint of radiology through automatic workstation shutdown protocols

Relationship between global warming and autism spectrum disorder from 1990 to 2019

Safer shared air: a critical accessibility and inclusion issue

Sources

American Journal of Surgery, The (Dec); Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Nov); Arthritis and Rheumatology (Oct); BJPsych Open (Sep-Nov); BJU International (Jan); BMC Primary Care (Nov); BMJ, The (Nov); Clinical Radiology (Nov); JAMA Network Open (Nov); Journal of Hazardous Materials (Dec); Lancet, The (Nov-Dec); NEJM (Nov); Journal of Public Health (Dec); Safer Air Project website (Nov); Science of the Total Environment (Dec)

November 2024

Advances and challenges in assessing antimicrobial resistance in environmental settings

As extreme heart becomes more common, the unprecedented Pacific Northwest heart dome offers lessons

Assessing the multi-dimensional effects of air pollution on maternal complications and birth outcomes: a structural equation modeling approach

Climate crisis, cities, and health

Exploring the restorative capacity of urban green spaces and their biodiversity through an adapted One Health approach: a scoping review

The far reach of PFAS—inert ingredients and adjuvants in pesticide formulations

            See also: Forever pesticides: a growing source of PFAS contamination in the environment

Health impacts of climate-change related natural disasters on persons with disabilities in developing countries: a literature review

How can I encourage my colleagues to be greener? (BMJ careers advice)

The human health burden of climate change: non-economic losses and ethical considerations towards achieving planetary health

The impact of climate change on hospice and palliative medicine: a scoping and narrative review

The impact of increasing temperatures due to climate change on infectious diseases

Impact of climate change on rheumatic diseases: a scoping review

Impact of extreme heat and heatwaves on children's health: a scoping review

Impact of urban farming on health: a systematic review

Long term exposure to road traffic noise and air pollution and risk of infertility in men and women: nationwide Danish cohort study

Planetary health prescriptions: Finland’s new physician role connects human and climate health

Plastic health umbrella review (Minderoo Foundation report)

Positive and negative impacts of COVID-19 on the environment: a critical review with sustainability approaches

Potential of urban health systems in climate response is being overlooked

Rainfall events and daily mortality across 645 global locations: two stage time series analysis

Rapid review of the impacts of climate change on the health system workforce and implications for action

Strategies and tactics to reduce the impact of healthcare on climate change: systematic review

Tampons as a source of exposure to metal(loid)s

Sources

BMJ, The (Oct); Current Opinion in Environmental Science and Health (Oct); Environment International (Aug); Environmental Health Perspectives (Jul); Hygiene and Environmental Health Advances (Dec); JAMA (Sep); Journal of Climate Change and Health, The (Jul-Oct); Journal of Public Health (Sep); Lancet, The (Oct); Minderoo Foundation website (Aug); Urban Forestry and Urban Greening (Oct)

September 2024

The 12 dimensions of health impacts of war (the 12-D framework): a novel framework to conceptualise impacts of war on social and environmental determinants of health and public health

Assessing the impact of neighborhood and built environment on pediatric perioperative care: a systematic review of the literature

The carbon footprint of a hospice

Child health prioritisation in national adaptation policies on climate change: a policy document analysis across 160 countries

Extreme temperatures and stroke mortality: evidence from a multi-country analysis

Governance of the wildlife trade and the prevention of emerging zoonoses: a mixed methods network analysis of transnational organisations, silos, and power dynamics

Governance to enable climate resilient development of healthcare systems – a conceptual overview

The human health burden of climate change: non-economic losses and ethical considerations towards achieving planetary health

Health impacts of climate-change related natural disasters on persons with disabilities in developing countries: a literature review

Household water lead and hematologic toxic effects in chronic kidney disease

Impact of climate change on rheumatic diseases: a scoping review

Impact of extreme heat and heatwaves on children's health: a scoping review

Impact of Mediterranean diet promotion on environmental sustainability: a longitudinal analysis

The potential burden from urbanisation on heat-related mortality in São Paulo, Brazil

Psychophysiological responses of the elderly to outdoor thermal stress: a focused analysis

Rapid review of the impacts of climate change on the health system workforce and implications for action

Resilience: conceptualisations and challenges for effective heatwave public health planning

Shutdown protocols for IT—reducing energy waste in medical practice

Toward a more systematic understanding of water insecurity coping strategies: insights from 11 global sites

Using hypofractionation to decarbonise radiation oncology

Which government policies to create sustainable food systems have the potential to simultaneously address undernutrition, obesity and environmental sustainability?

Widening geographic range of Rift Valley fever disease clusters associated with climate change in East Africa

Sources

BMJ, The (Jul-Aug); BMJ Global Health (May-Aug); BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care (May); Globalization and Health (Jul-Aug); JAMA Internal Medicine (Jul); Journal of Climate Change and Health (Sep-Oct); Journal of Pediatric Surgery (Jul); Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, The (Jul); Public Health (May); Stroke (Jul); Urban Climate (Sep)

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