Publications by authors named "P H Nascimento Saldiva"
Research Question: Previous evidence suggests a positive association between temperature and homicide, but the association was less clear in Brazil where homicide is one of the leading causes of death. This study aimed to quantify the association between ambient daily temperature and homicides in Brazil with potential lag effects and to quantify the temperature attributed fractions of homicides in Brazil.
Methods: A space-time-stratified case-crossover design with distributed lag models was used to evaluate the temperature-homicide association from 1·1·2010 to 31·12·2019 in Brazil.
Background: Landscape fire-sourced (LFS) air pollution is an increasing public health concern in the context of climate change. However, little is known about the attributable global, regional, and national mortality burden related to LFS air pollution.
Methods: We calculated country-specific population-weighted average daily and annual LFS fine particulate matter (PM) and surface ozone (O) during 2000-19 from a validated dataset.
Article Synopsis
- - The review highlights the negative health impacts of air pollution and climate change on pregnancy and postnatal health, showing a strong link between pollution exposure and various complications during and after gestation.
- - Evidence indicates that air pollution is associated with risks like gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, low birth weight, and developmental impairments in children, while climate change contributes to increased temperatures affecting maternal and fetal health.
- - The authors emphasize the urgent need to address environmental factors because they significantly influence both immediate and long-term outcomes for mothers and their children.
Background: The minimum mortality temperature (MMT) or MMT percentile (MMTP) is an indicator of population susceptibility to nonoptimum temperatures. MMT and MMTP change over time; however, the changing directions show region-wide heterogeneity. We examined the heterogeneity of temporal changes in MMT and MMTP across multiple communities and in multiple countries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWildfire-specific particulate matter with diameters ≤ 2.5 µm (PM) is the key component of wildfire smoke, with potentially higher toxicity than PM from other sources. In this nationwide population-based cohort study, we included 22,163,195 births from Brazil during 20102019.
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