In densely populated urban areas, air quality is one of the main concerns, affecting human health and the environment. In developing and emerging countries, an alternative method for reducing the effects of air pollution is to select vehicles with lower pollutant emissions, as a way of making these large centers more sustainable. Since the complete elimination of vehicle emissions is not possible in the short term.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPublic health emergencies are extraordinary events of disease spread, with health, economic, and social consequences, which require coordinated actions by governments and society. This work aims to analyze scopes, application possibilities, challenges, and gaps of decision support frameworks in PHE management, using the components of the Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Framework (H-EDRM) and the Preparedness, Prevention, Response and Recovery Model (PPRR Model), providing guidelines for the development of new models. A systematic literature review was carried out using the Web of Science, Scopus, and Pubmed knowledge databases on studies published between 2016 and 2023, and thirty-six articles were selected.
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