Kashif Abbass, Muhammad Qasim, Huaming Song, Muntasir Murshed et al.
Climate change is a long-lasting change in the weather arrays across tropics to polls. It is a global threat that has embarked on to put stress on various sectors. This study is aimed to conceptually engineer how climate variability is deteriorating the sustainability of diverse sectors worldwide. S...
Mike Ahern, Sari Kovats, Paul Wilkinson, Roger Few et al.
Floods are the most common natural disaster in both developed and developing countries, and they are occasionally of devastating impact, as the floods in China in 1959 and Bangladesh in 1974 and the tsunami in Southeast Asia in December 2004 show (1). Their impacts on health vary between populations...
Matthew J. Eckelman, Kaixin Huang, Robert S. Lagasse, Emily Senay et al.
An up-to-date assessment of environmental emissions in the US health care sector is essential to help policy makers hold the health care industry accountable to protect public health. We update national-level US health-sector emissions. We also estimate state-level emissions for the first time and e...
Joel B. Smith, Stephen H. Schneider, Michael Oppenheimer, Gary Yohe et al.
Article 2 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [United Nations (1992) http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/conveng.pdf. Accessed February 9, 2009] commits signatory nations to stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that "would prevent dangero...
William J. Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Thomas M. Newsome, Jillian W. Gregg et al.
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Oxford University Press via the DOI in this record
Xuping Song, Shigong Wang, Yuling Hu, Man Yue et al.
The objectives were (i) to conduct an overview of systematic reviews to summarize evidence from and evaluate the methodological quality of systematic reviews assessing the impact of ambient temperature on morbidity and mortality; and (ii) to reanalyse meta-analyses of cold-induced cardiovascular mor...
Aneire Khan, Andrew Ireson, Sari Kovats, Sontosh Kumar Mojumder et al.
Background: Drinking water from natural sources in coastal Bangladesh has become contaminated by varying degrees of salinity due to saltwater intrusion from rising sea levels, cyclone and storm surges and upstream withdrawal of freshwater. Objective: Our objective was to estimate salt intake from dr...
H.‐Erich Wichmann, Annette Peters
In epidemiological studies associations have been observed consistently and coherently between ambient concentrations of particulate matter and morbidity and mortality. With improvement of measurement techniques, the effects became clearer when smaller particle sizes were considered. Therefore, it s...
Masahiro Hashizume, Ben Armstrong, Shakoor Hajat, Yukiko Wagatsuma et al.
BACKGROUND: We estimated the effects of rainfall and temperature on the number of non-cholera diarrhoea cases and identified population factors potentially affecting vulnerability to the effect of the climate factors in Dhaka, Bangladesh. METHODS: Weekly rainfall, temperature and number of hospital ...
Paolo Vineis, Queenie Chan, Aneire Khan
It is estimated that 884 million people do not have access to clean drinking water in the world. Increasing salinity of natural drinking water sources has been reported as one of the many problems that affect low-income countries, but one which has not been fully explored. This problem is exacerbate...
Chisato Imai, Ben Armstrong, Zaid Chalabi, Punam Mangtani et al.
Time series regression has been developed and long used to evaluate the short-term associations of air pollution and weather with mortality or morbidity of non-infectious diseases. The application of the regression approaches from this tradition to infectious diseases, however, is less well explored...
Omnia El Omrani, Alaa Dafallah, Blanca Paniello-Castillo, Bianca Q. R. C. Amaro et al.
BACKGROUND: With deteriorating ecosystems, the health of mankind is at risk. Future health care professionals must be trained to recognize the interdependence of health and ecosystems to address the needs of their patients and communities. Health issues related to, e.g. climate change and air pollut...
William J. Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Jillian W. Gregg, Johan Rockström et al.
Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory. For several decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extreme climatic conditions because of escalating global temperatures caused by ongoing human activities that release harmful greenhouse gasses in...
M. Manzurul Hassan, Shafiul Azam Ahmed, Khalilur Rahman, Tarit Kanti Biswas
BACKGROUND: Medical waste is infectious and hazardous. It poses serious threats to environmental health and requires specific treatment and management prior to its final disposal. The problem is growing with an ever-increasing number of hospitals, clinics, and diagnostic laboratories in Dhaka City, ...
Michael Marmot
Walk the slums of Dhaka, in Bangladesh, or Accra, in Ghana, and it is not difficult to see how the urban environment of poor countries could be responsible for bad health. Walk north from Manhattan's museum district to Harlem, or east from London's financial district to its old East End, and you wil...