Analysis of the Sustainable Development Goal 3 index for Italian municipalities.

Objectives: Improving health at global and local scales is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations (UN) for the period 2015-2030, specifically defined by SDG3, which includes 13 targets described by 28 indicators. In this context, the aim of the current study was to propose a protocol to infer SDG3 values at municipality level with the current openly available data.

Study Design: The study incorporated a quantitative research.

Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in the Paediatric Patient: An Observational Study in the Context of National Regulations.

Cardiac arrest results in a high death rate if cardiopulmonary resuscitation and early defibrillation are not performed. Mortality is strongly linked to regulations, in terms of prevention and emergency-urgency system organization. In Italy, training of lay rescuers and the presence of defibrillators were recently made mandatory in schools.

Geospatial analysis of short-term exposure to air pollution and risk of cardiovascular diseases and mortality-A systematic review.

The cardiovascular risk associated with short-term ambient air pollution exposure is well-documented. However, recent advancements in geospatial techniques have provided new insights into this risk. This systematic review focuses on short-term exposure studies that applied advanced geospatial pollution modelling to estimate cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and accounted for additional unconventional neighbourhood-level confounders to analyse their modifier effect on the risk.

Implementation of a GEOAI model to assess the impact of agricultural land on the spatial distribution of PM2.5 concentration.

Air pollution is considered one of the major environmental risks to health worldwide. Researchers are making significant efforts to study it, thanks to state-of-art technologies in data collection and processing, and to mitigate its effect. In this context, while a lot is known about the role of urbanization, industries, and transport, the impact of agricultural activities on the spatial distribution of pollution is less studied, despite knowledge about emissions suggest it is not a secondary factor.

Heatwave Definition and Impact on Cardiovascular Health: A Systematic Review.

We aimed to analyze recent literature on heat effects on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, focusing on the adopted heat definitions and their eventual impact on the results of the analysis. The search was performed on PubMed, ScienceDirect, and Scopus databases: 54 articles, published between January 2018 and September 2022, were selected as relevant. In total, 21 different combinations of criteria were found for defining heat, 12 of which were based on air temperature, while the others combined it with other meteorological factors.