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Health co-benefits in mortality avoidance from implementation of the mass rapid transit (MRT) system in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
INTRODUCTION: The mass rapid transit (MRT) is the largest transport infrastructure project under the national key economic area (NKEA) in Malaysia. As urban rail is anticipated to be the future spine of public transport network...
Household Fuel Use and the Risk of Gastrointestinal Cancers
Mahdi Sheikh, Hossein Poustchi, Akram Pourshams, Masoud Khoshnia, Abdolsamad Gharavi, Mahdi Zahedi, Gholamreza Roshandel, Sadaf G Sepanlou, Abdolreza Fazel, Maryam Hashemian, Behrooz Abaei, Masoud Sotoudeh, Arash Nikmanesh, Shahin Merat, Arash Etemadi, Siavosh Nasseri Moghaddam, Farhad Islami, Farin Kamangar, Paul D Pharoah, Sanford M Dawsey, Christian C Abnet, Paolo Boffetta, Paul Brennan, Reza Malekzadeh
Dec 15, 2020
BACKGROUND: Three billion people burn nonclean fuels for household purposes. Limited evidence suggests a link between household fuel use and gastrointestinal (GI) cancers. OBJECTIVES: We investigated the relationship between...
Integrated Impact Assessment of Active Travel
Thomas Götschi, Sonja Kahlmeier, Alberto Castro, Christian Brand, Nick Cavill, Paul Kelly, Christoph Lieb, David Rojas-Rueda, James Woodcock, Francesca Racioppi
Nov 12, 2020
The World Health Organization's Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for walking and cycling is a user-friendly web-based tool to assess the health impacts of active travel. HEAT, developed over 10 years ago, has been used by...
Health impacts of changes in travel patterns in Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana.
Leandro Garcia, Rob Johnson, Alex Johnson, Ali Abbas, Rahul Goel, Lambed Tatah, James Damsere-Derry, Elvis Kyere-Gyeabour, Marko Tainio, Thiago H de Sá, James Woodcock
Jun 28, 2021
BACKGROUND: Health impact assessments of alternative travel patterns are urgently needed to inform transport and urban planning in African cities, but none exists so far. OBJECTIVE: To quantify the health impacts of changes in...
Health impact modelling of active travel visions for England and Wales using an Integrated Transport and Health Impact Modelling Tool (ITHIM).
BACKGROUND: Achieving health benefits while reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transport offers a potential policy win-win; the magnitude of potential benefits, however, is likely to vary. This study uses an Integrated...
Lung cancers attributable to environmental tobacco smoke and air pollution in non-smokers in different European countries
Paolo Vineis, Gerard Hoek, Michal Krzyzanowski, Federica Vigna-Taglianti, Fabrizio Veglia, Luisa Airoldi, Kim Overvad, Ole Raaschou-Nielsen, Francoise Clavel-Chapelon, Jacob Linseisen, Heiner Boeing, Antonia Trichopoulou, Domenico Palli, Vittorio Krogh, Rosario Tumino, Salvatore Panico, H Bas Bueno-De-Mesquita, Petra H Peeters, Eiliv Lund E, Antonio Agudo, Carmen Martinez, Miren Dorronsoro, Aurelio Barricarte, Lluis Cirera, J Ramon Quiros, Goran Berglund, Jonas Manjer, Bertil Forsberg, Nicholas E Day, Tim J Key, Rudolf Kaaks, Rodolfo Saracci, Elio Riboli
Jun 16, 2011
Automated classification of time-activity-location patterns for improved estimation of personal exposure to air pollution.
Lia Chatzidiakou, Anika Krause, Mike Kellaway, Yiqun Han, Yilin Li, Elizabeth Martin, Frank J Kelly, Tong Zhu, Benjamin Barratt, Roderic L Jones
Jan 08, 2023
BACKGROUND: Air pollution epidemiology has primarily relied on measurements from fixed outdoor air quality monitoring stations to derive population-scale exposure. Characterisation of individual time-activity-location patterns...
Air pollution induces Staphylococcus aureus USA300 respiratory tract colonization mediated by specific bacterial genetic responses involving the global virulence gene regulators Agr and Sae.
Jo Purves, Shane JK Hussey, Louise Corscadden, Lillie Purser, Andie Hall, Raju Misra, Liza Selley, Paul S Monks, Julian M Ketley, Peter W Andrew, Julie A Morrissey
Jun 07, 2022
The Impacts of Car-Free Days and Events on the Environment and Human Health.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: In this paper, we seek to elucidate the impact of car-free days and events on human health. Car-free days and events are often designed to alleviate the impact of transportation-related air pollution, noise...
Novel Method for Ozone Isopleth Construction and Diagnosis for the Ozone Control Strategy of Chinese Cities.
Huizhong Shen, Zhe Sun, Yilin Chen, Armistead G Russell, Yongtao Hu, Mehmet Talât Odman, Yu Qian, Alexander T Archibald, Shu Tao
Nov 22, 2021
Ozone (O3) isopleths describe the nonlinear responses of O3 concentrations to changes in nitrogen oxides (NOX) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and thus are pivotal to the determination of O3 control requirements. In this...
Rethinking indoor thermal comfort in the era of rebound and pre-bound effect for the developing world
This paper presents a review on thermal comfort research that is informed by changes in occupant behavior, lifestyle, and income leading to rebound or pre-bound effect. It explores the current state of research in thermal...
The long-term impact of restricting cycling and walking during high air pollution days on all-cause mortality
Giorgos Giallouros, Panayiotis Kouis, Stefania I Papatheodorou, James Woodcock, Marko Tainio
Mar 30, 2020
Water-carbon trade-off in China's coal power industry.
The energy sector is increasingly facing water scarcity constraints in many regions around the globe, especially in China, where the unprecedented large-scale construction of coal-fired thermal power plants is taking place in...
Public health impacts of city policies to reduce climate change
Clive E. Sabel, Rosemary Hiscock, Arja Asikainen, Jun Bi, Mike Depledge, Sef Van Den Elshout, Rainer Friedrich, Ganlin Huang, Fintan Hurley, Matti Jantunen, Spyros P. Karakitsios, Menno Keuken, Simon Kingham, Periklis Kontoroupis, Nino Kuenzli, Miaomiao Liu, Marco Martuzzi, Katie Morton, Pierpaolo Mudu, Marjo Niittynen, Laura Perez, Denis Sarigiannis, Will Stahl-Timmins, Myriam Tobollik, Jouni Tuomisto, Saskia Willers
Mar 08, 2016
Background: Climate change is a global threat to health and wellbeing. Here we provide findings of an international research project investigating the health and wellbeing impacts of policies to reduce greenhouse gas...
Air Pollution buildings China Energy Europe Greenhouse gas emission reduction policies HEALTH transport urban Wellbeing /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2739 name=Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300/2307 name=Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being name=SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/affordable_and_clean_energy name=SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/sustainable_cities_and_communities name=SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action name=SDG 13 - Climate Action
Maternal ambient air pollution exposure with spatial-temporal variations and preterm birth risk assessment during 2013-2017 in Zhejiang Province, China.
Zhe Sun, Liyang Yang, Xiaoxia Bai, Wei Du, Guofeng Shen, Jie Fei, Yonghui Wang, An Chen, Yuanchen Chen, Meirong Zhao
Sep 16, 2021
Preterm birth (PTB) can give rise to significant neonatal morbidity and mortality, as well as children's long-term health defects. Many studies have illustrated the associations between ambient air pollution exposure during...
AirKit
Increasing urbanisation and a better understanding of the negative health effects of air pollution have accelerated the use of Internet of Things (IoT)-based air quality sensors. Low-cost and low-power sensors are now readily...
The Impacts of Car-Free Days and Events on the Environment and Human Health.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: In this paper, we seek to elucidate the impact of car-free days and events on human health. Car-free days and events are often designed to alleviate the impact of transportation-related air pollution, noise...
Personal exposures to fine particulate matter and carbon monoxide in relation to cooking activities in rural Malawi.
Sepeedeh Saleh, Henry Sambakunsi, Debora Makina, Martha Chinouya, Moses Kumwenda, James Chirombo, Sean Semple, Kevin Mortimer, Jamie Rylance
Apr 05, 2023
Background: Air pollution is a major environmental risk factor for cardiorespiratory disease. Exposures to household air pollution from cooking and other activities, are particularly high in Southern Africa. Following an...
Guidelines for Modeling and Reporting Health Effects of Climate Change Mitigation Actions.
Jeremy J Hess, Nikhil Ranadive, Chris Boyer, Lukasz Aleksandrowicz, Susan C Anenberg, Kristin Aunan, Kristine Belesova, Michelle L Bell, Sam Bickersteth, Kathryn Bowen, Marci Burden, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Elizabeth Carlton, Guéladio Cissé, Francois Cohen, Hancheng Dai, Alan David Dangour, Purnamita Dasgupta, Howard Frumkin, Peng Gong, Robert J Gould, Andy Haines, Simon Hales, Ian Hamilton, Tomoko Hasegawa, Masahiro Hashizume, Yasushi Honda, Daniel E Horton, Alexandra Karambelas, Ho Kim, Satbyul Estella Kim, Patrick L Kinney, Inza Kone, Kim Knowlton, Jos Lelieveld, Vijay S Limaye, Qiyong Liu, Lina Madaniyazi, Micaela Elvira Martinez, Denise L Mauzerall, James Milner, Tara Neville, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Shonali Pachauri, Frederica Perera, Helen Pineo, Justin V Remais, Rebecca K Saari, Jon Sampedro, Pauline Scheelbeek, Joel Schwartz, Drew Shindell, Priya Shyamsundar, Timothy J Taylor, Cathryn Tonne, Detlef Van Vuuren, Can Wang, Nicholas Watts, J Jason West, Paul Wilkinson, Stephen A Wood, James Woodcock, Alistair Woodward, Yang Xie, Ying Zhang, Kristie L Ebi
Feb 08, 2021
BACKGROUND: Modeling suggests that climate change mitigation actions can have substantial human health benefits that accrue quickly and locally. Documenting the benefits can help drive more ambitious and health-protective...
Health impact modelling of different travel patterns on physical activity, air pollution and road injuries for São Paulo, Brazil.
Thiago Hérick de Sá, Marko Tainio, Anna Goodman, Phil Edwards, Andy Haines, Nelson Gouveia, Carlos Monteiro, James Woodcock
Aug 01, 2017
BACKGROUND: São Paulo city, Brazil, faces challenges caused by rapid urbanization. We illustrate how future travel patterns could lead to different health consequences in the city. METHODS: We evaluated the health impacts of...
Exposure to Stress and Air Pollution from Bushfires during Pregnancy
Vanessa E Murphy, Wilfried Karmaus, Joerg Mattes, Bronwyn K Brew, Adam Collison, Elizabeth Holliday, Megan E Jensen, Geoffrey G Morgan, Graeme R Zosky, Vanessa M McDonald, Edward Jegasothy, Paul D Robinson, Peter G Gibson
Oct 11, 2021
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