537 results match your criteria: "European Centre for Environment and Human Health[Affiliation]"
SSM Popul Health
August 2020
Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
This paper examines the association between financial hardship in childhood and adulthood, and depression and anxiety in adulthood with reference to the accumulation, critical period and social mobility hypotheses in lifecourse epidemiology. Using the BBC Stress test, linear regression models were used to investigate the associations for the whole population and stratifying by sex and adjusting for age and highest education attainment. The critical period hypothesis was not confirmed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
April 2020
European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School, Truro Campus, RCH Treliske, Truro TR1 3HD, UK.
The opening up of green spaces could provide significant benefits to society. This study develops a framework to assess the economic benefits and costs of public interventions providing citizen access to urban green spaces. The Thinking Fadura project in Getxo (Spain) was used as a case study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
April 2020
Department of Family Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, 1018 Fuller St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1213, USA.
Outdoor walking groups are nature-based interventions (NBIs) that promote health and wellbeing by modifying individual behaviour. The challenges of such NBIs include the motivation of inactive adults to participate and measurement issues. This feasibility study investigates a 12-week group outdoor health walk (GOHW) incorporating activity trackers and use of a holistic health and wellbeing measure, the Self-sasessment of Change (SAC) scale.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnviron Int
June 2020
Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, BA27AY Bath, United Kingdom. Electronic address:
Antibiotic resistance (ABR) is now recognised as a serious global health and economic threat that is most efficiently managed via a 'one health' approach incorporating environmental risk assessment. Although the environmental dimension of ABR has been largely overlooked, recent studies have underlined the importance of non-clinical settings in the emergence and spread of resistant strains. Despite this, several research gaps remain in regard to the development of a robust and fit-for-purpose environmental risk assessment for ABR drivers such as antibiotics (ABs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWater Res
June 2020
European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School, Truro, TR1 3HD, UK. Electronic address:
The risks of illness associated with bathing in UK coastal waters have not been quantified since the early 1990s. Efforts have been made since then to improve the quality of bathing waters. The aim of this study was to quantify the prevalence of symptoms of illness associated with sea bathing in bathers in England and Wales.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLoS One
June 2020
Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, NY, United States of America.
Background: Understanding how the conservation of nature can lead to improvement in human conditions is a research area with significant growth and attention. Progress towards effective conservation requires understanding mechanisms for achieving impact within complex social-ecological systems. Causal models are useful tools for defining plausible pathways from conservation actions to impacts on nature and people.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ R Soc Med
March 2020
Value Based Healthcare Programme - Department of Primary Care, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK.
FEMS Microbiol Lett
February 2020
European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School, Knowledge Spa, Royal Cornwall Hospital Truro, TR1 3HDTruro, Cornwall, UK.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as one of the most pressing threats to public health. AMR evolution occurs in the clinic but also in the environment, where antibiotics and heavy metals can select and co-select for AMR. While the selective potential of both antibiotics and metals is increasingly well-characterized, experimental studies exploring their combined effects on AMR evolution are rare.
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May 2020
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Kensington NSW 2052, Australia.
In the more than 15 years since its introduction, quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) has become a widely used technique for assessing population health risk posed by waterborne pathogens. However, the variation in approaches taken for QMRA in relation to drinking water supply is not well understood. This systematic review identifies, categorises, and critically synthesises peer-reviewed and academic case studies of QMRA implementation for existing distributed public drinking water supplies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnviron Int
April 2020
Institute of Environment, Brunel University, Middlesex UB8 3PH, UK.
Chemicals policies have spawned a wide range of regulations aimed at limiting damage to the environment and human health. Most instruments are reactive and fragmented. We propose a simple underpinning philosophy, "Do no harm", to ensure a more sustainable, safe "chemical environment" for the future.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnviron Res
May 2020
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Ostend, Belgium. Electronic address:
The health risks of coastal areas have long been researched, but the potential benefits for health are only recently being explored. The present study compared the general health of Belgian citizens a) according to the EU's definition of coastal (<50 km) vs. inland (>50 km), and b) between eight more refined categories of residential proximity to the coast (<5 km to >250 km).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnviron Sci Pollut Res Int
April 2020
European Centre for Environment and Human Health, Knowledge Spa, Royal Cornwall Hospital, University of Exeter Medical School, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 3HD, UK.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFNutrients
January 2020
George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre, University of the West Indies, "Avalon", Jemmott's Lane, Bridgetown BB11115, Barbados.
Many Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean experience a triple burden of malnutrition with high rates of obesity, undernutrition in children, and iron deficiency anemia in women of reproductive age, driven by an inadequate, unhealthy diet. This study aimed to map the complex dynamic systems driving unhealthy eating and to identify potential points for intervention in three dissimilar countries. Stakeholders from across the food system in Jamaica (n = 16), St.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPublic Health Pract (Oxf)
November 2020
Scottish Public Health Network (ScotPHN), NHS Health Scotland, 5 Cadogan Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G2 6QE, UK.
Ambio
July 2020
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, PO Box 7803, 5020, Bergen, Norway.
Environ Int
March 2020
European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School, Knowledge Spa, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, Cornwall TR1 3HD, UK. Electronic address:
Progress on changing human behaviour to meet the challenges of regional and global sustainability has been slow. Building on theory as well as small-scale survey and experimental evidence that exposure to nature may be associated with greater pro-environmentalism, the aim of the current study was to quantify relationships between exposure to nature (operationalised as neighbourhood greenspace, coastal proximity, and recreational nature visits) as well as appreciation of the natural world, and self-reported pro-environmental behaviour for the adult population of England. Using data from a nationally representative sample (N = 24,204), and controlling for potential confounders, a structural equation model was used to estimate relationships.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Sport Health Sci
January 2020
MRC Epidemiology Unit and UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK.
Purpose: To examine adolescent experiences and perspectives of the GoActive intervention (ISRCTN31583496) using mixed methods process evaluation to determine satisfaction with intervention components and interpret adolescents' experiences of the intervention process in order to provide insights for future intervention design.
Methods: Participants ( = 1542; 13.2 ± 0.
Public Health
February 2020
Environment and Geography Department, University of York, Wentworth Way, York YO10 5NG, UK.
BJPsych Open
January 2020
Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Public Health, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, UK.
Background: Approximately 20% of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience clinical levels of impairment into adulthood. In the UK, there is a sharp reduction in ADHD drug prescribing over the period of transition from child to adult services, which is higher than expected given estimates of ADHD persistence, and may be linked to difficulties in accessing adult services. Little is currently known about geographical variations in prescribing and how this may relate to service access.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
December 2019
Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research, Skopje, University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius" 1000 Skopje, North Macedonia.
This study describes the implementation, in North Macedonia, of a "tool", initially devised in Scotland, to generate community and stakeholder discussion about the places in which they live and notably a place's capacity to generate health wellbeing and greater equity among citizens. In this study, the "place standard tool" (PST) is viewed from the perspective of creating places which can deliver a triple win of health and wellbeing, equity, and environmental sustainability. Skopje, North Macedonia's capital, inevitably differs economically, culturally, and politically from Scotland, thus providing an opportunity to augment existing knowledge on adaptability of the tool in shaping agendas for policy and action.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
November 2019
EuroHealthNet, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
The world's challenges of climate change, damage to ecosystems, and social and health inequalities require changes in human behaviours at every level of organisation, among governments, business, communities, and individuals. An important question is how behaviour change can be enabled and supported at the scale and speed required. The research reported in this paper describes important lessons for good practice in changing contexts to modify behaviours for a triple win for health, equity and environmental sustainability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLancet
November 2019
School of Education and Human Resource Development, Kisii University, Kisii, Kenya.
Lancet
November 2019
Institute for Human Health and Performance, University College London, London, UK.
Unlabelled: The Countdown is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration, dedicated to monitoring the evolving health profile of climate change, and providing an independent assessment of the delivery of commitments made by governments worldwide under the Paris Agreement. The 2019 report presents an annual update of 41 indicators across five key domains: climate change impacts, exposures, and vulnerability; adaptation, planning, and resilience for health; mitigation actions and health co-benefits; economics and finance; and public and political engagement. The report represents the findings and consensus of 35 leading academic institutions and UN agencies from every continent.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRes Synth Methods
July 2020
Graduate School of Education, University of Exeter, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The incorporation of evidence derived from multiple research designs into one single synthesis can enhance the utility of systematic reviews making them more worthwhile, useful, and insightful. Methodological guidance for mixed-methods synthesis continues to emerge and evolve but broadly involves a sequential, parallel, or convergent approach according to the degree of independence between individual syntheses before they are combined. We present two case studies in which we used novel and innovative methods to draw together the findings from individual but related quantitative and qualitative syntheses to aid interpretation of the overall evidence base.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
November 2019
EuroHealthNet, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
Urbanization, costs of green space maintenance, and diminishing connection between people and nature all exert pressures on urban green space. This is regrettable as green space has the potential to create wins for environmental sustainability, health, and health equity. This paper explores this potential triple win and investigates how to increase the use of urban green space through behavior change.
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