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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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May 2025

Advancing sustainability in healthcare: a scoping review of global recycling practices in operating rooms

Ambient outdoor heat and accelerated epigenetic aging among older adults in the US

Assessing the utility of healthcare claims data to determine potential health impacts of PFAS exposure with public drinking water

Carbon footprint analysis of an outpatient dermatology practice at an academic medical center

Cardiovascular disease burden linked to particulate matter pollution in Latin America and the Caribbean: insights from GBD 2021 and socio-demographic index analysis

Copper-enriched automotive brake wear particles perturb human alveolar cellular homeostasis

Effect of global climate change concern on environmental sensitivity of nursing students

The effect of short-term exposure to air pollution on the admission of ischemic stroke and its interaction with meteorological factors

Equitable energy transitions for a healthy future: combating air pollution and climate change

Exploring nursing students’ metaphorical perceptions and cognitive structures related to the global climate crisis’s impact on nursing

Heat and mental health

Heat health in general practice: an evidence-based approach to the prevention of heat-related illness

Impact of climate change education on pregnant women’s anxiety and awareness

The impacts of noise and air pollution on breast cancer risk in European and East Asian populations: insights from genetic evidence

Interplay between genetic risk and built neighborhood conditions as predictor of BMI across the transition into adulthood

Manhattan’s street trees: an unfinished public health story

Respiratory benefits of multisetting air purification in children: a cluster randomized crossover trial

Toxic air: the biggest environmental killer of children in Europe and Central Asia

Use of emergency services in response to a flood: an account of the aftermath of the May 2023 flood in Romagna, Italy

Wildfires in southern California: concerns for lung health

Sources

American Journal of Public Health (Jan); American Journal of Surgery (Mar); Australian Journal of General Practice (Jan-Feb); BMJ, The (Mar); Emergency Medicine Journal (Feb); Environmental Epidemiology (Mar); JAMA Dermatology (Feb); JAMA Pediatrics (Feb); Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, The (Mar); Lancet Respiratory Medicine, The (Mar); Obesity (Mar); Particle and Fibre Toxicology (Feb); Public Health (Jan-Feb); Public Health Nursing (Jan/Feb); Science Advances (Feb)

March 2025

The 2024 small island developing states report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change

Addressing healthcare professionals’ fatigue for effective climate action engagement

Air pollution and brain damage: what the science says

Air pollution, metabolic signatures, and the risk of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Contamination of the terrestrial food chain by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and related human health risks: a systematic review

Effects of PM2.5 components on hypertension and diabetes: assessing the mitigating influence of green spaces

Effects of social vulnerability and environmental burden on care fragmentation and social needs among individuals with rheumatic conditions

Environment, lifestyles, and climate change: the many nongenetic contributors to the long and winding road to autoimmune diseases

Environmental impact of large language models in medicine

Environmental justice issues in drinking water contaminant exposure in a European context

Fine particulate matter components and risk of rheumatoid arthritis: a large general Canadian open cohort study

Harnessing the therapeutic effects of nature for chronic pain: a role for immersive virtual reality? A narrative review

Impact of exposure to environmental particulate matter on the onset of giant cell arteritis

Impact of season, environmental temperature, and humidity on Raynaud phenomenon in an Australian systemic sclerosis cohort

Impacts of wildfire smoke PM2.5, greenspace and terrain ruggedness on life expectancy in the contiguous United States

In-depth screening of pesticide exposure in children from urban and agricultural settings in Poland

Neighborhood characteristics and walking behavior among adults with arthritis: a national health interview survey study

Residing in areas with high residential greenspace is associated with increased COPD risk and decreased lung function of adults in eastern China

A review of studies assessing the benefits of clean air and climate mitigation policies for child and adult health

Sources, levels, and determinants of indoor air pollutants in Europe: a systematic review

Trump and the tech bros: demagogues of harm to human and planetary health

We need a global agreement to safeguard human health from plastic pollution

Sources

Arthritis Care & Research (Jan); BMJ, The (Jan); European Journal of Pain (Feb); Heart & Lung (Mar-Apr); Internal Medicine Journal (Dec); Journal of Climate Change and Health (Jan-Feb); Lancet Global Health, The (Jan); Nature (Jan); Science of the Total Environment (Jan-Feb)

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)

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