Showing papers in "The Lancet Planetary Health in 2019"

TL;DR: The exposure to air pollution and its impact on deaths, disease burden, and life expectancy in every state of India in 2017 was estimated to inform action at subnational levels in India.

TL;DR: Evidence of an inverse association between surrounding greenness and all-cause mortality is found, and interventions to increase and manage green spaces should therefore be considered as a strategic public health intervention.

TL;DR: Efforts to reduce NO2 exposure could help prevent a substantial portion of new paediatric asthma cases in both developed and developing countries, and especially in urban areas.

TL;DR: It was showed that nutrition is insufficiently incorporated into medical education, regardless of country, setting, or year of medical education.

TL;DR: The findings reveal that the ongoing increase in temperature extremes (Tmin and Tmax) might already be contributing to extended seasonal duration and increased pollen load for multiple aeroallergenic pollen taxa in diverse locations across the northern hemisphere.

TL;DR: The attributable non-human sources underpin the need for longitudinal studies and continuous monitoring, because intracommunity ESBL-EC and pAmpC-EC spread alone is unlikely to be self-maintaining without transmission to and from non- human sources.

TL;DR: Economic modelling suggests that even under optimistic socioeconomic scenarios future supply will be insufficient to achieve recommended levels in many countries, and systematic public policy targeting the constraints to producing and consuming fruits and vegetables will be needed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors calculated the economic burden of road traffic-related injuries for 166 countries by using a macroeconomic model that accounts for the effect of fatal and non-fatal injuries on labour supply, age-specific differences in education and experience of those who are affected by road accidents, and diversion of injury-related treatment expenses from savings, which results in lower investment.

TL;DR: The research suggests that proximity to more green space is associated with increased longevity, which has policy implications for the national blueprint of ecological civilisation and preparation for an ageing society in China.

TL;DR: Between 1980 and 2016, the risk and attributable fraction of cardiovascular deaths due to warm and cold temperatures decreased for men and women across all age groups, and the observed warming of the climate has occurred in parallel with substantial adaptation to both high and low temperatures.

TL;DR: Despite improvement in overall air quality, increased acute air pollution episodes were significantly associated with increased hospitalisations for acute exacerbations of COPD in Beijing.

TL;DR: This approach is an improvement in estimating future global food security by simultaneously projecting climate change effects on crop productivity and changes in nutrient content under increased concentrations of CO2, which accounts for a much larger effect on nutrient availability than CO2 fertilisation.

TL;DR: The systematic exposome approach identified several environmental exposures, mainly chemicals, that might be associated with lung function and reducing exposure to these ubiquitous chemicals could help to prevent the development of chronic respiratory disease.

TL;DR: The use of advanced spatial and locationbased technologies forms the foundation of spatial lifecourse epidemiology, which aims to use those advanced technologies to investigate long-term effects and mechanisms of measurable environmental, behavioural, and psychosocial factors on individual disease risk at an unprecedented degree of accuracy.

TL;DR: Large spatial differences in life expectancy at birth in Latin American cities and their association with social factors highlight the importance of area-based approaches and policies that address social inequalities in improving health in cities of the region.

TL;DR: The Sustainable Healthcare Education network has succeeded in changing health professional curricula at several levels and made planetary health education clinically relevant by publishing case studies and teaching materials, developing educational activities and approaches, and introducing three learning objectives.

TL;DR: To reduce the future disease burden in China, targets that are stricter than the interim target and stringent policies to improve air quality and protect public health are needed, especially for at-risk population groups, such as older individuals and patients with cardiovascular diseases.

TL;DR: Although few infections were detected, P knowlesi exposure was observed in all demographic groups and was associated with occupational factors, supporting linkages between land use change and Pknowlesi transmission.

TL;DR: Rurality and increased minimum greenness were strongly and independently associated with a reduced risk of ADHD and increasing a child's minimum lifetime greenness exposure might provide the greatest increment of protection against the disorder.

TL;DR: The genetic diversity, geographical structure, infection prevalence, and age-associated prevalence among camels at the largest entry port of camels from Africa into the Arabian Peninsula are studied and sustained endemicity of NRC is suggested.

TL;DR: Urban wildlife carry a high burden of clinically relevant antimicrobial-resistant E coli in Nairobi, exhibiting resistance to drugs considered crucial for human medicine by WHO, and results provide novel insight into the broader epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance in complex urban environments.

TL;DR: The results suggest the need for a nationwide carbon-efficient target for health care and use of low-carbon alternatives in making supply chain choices to achieve reductions in the carbon footprint of the Chinese health-care system.

TL;DR: This work called for transformative WaSH approaches to more effectively reduce pathogen burden and promote child health and growth in LMICs, and proposed a paradigm shift in WaSH terminology, by upgrading the currently diminutive and redundant “a” to “A”—Water, Animals, Sanitation, and Hygiene—highlighting that reducing exposure to animals and their faeces also needs to be central to WASH approaches.

TL;DR: Exposure to ambient PM2·5 and urbanicity and residential greenness were associated with a higher risk of COPD, suggesting the potential value of urban planning and design in minimising or offsetting environmental risks for the prevention and management of COPd.

TL;DR: Findings from African DHS data show that PM2·5 exposure is significantly associated with increased risk of pregnancy loss, including miscarriage and stillbirth, and support public health interventions for reducing ambient particulate matter to improve maternal health in Africa.

TL;DR: It is argued that an overemphasis on the so-called doomsday portrayal of fish-which often dominates literature and the broader media-masks the myriad of positive contributions of the fisheries sector to nutrition and sustainability and limits its scope in contributing to healthy and sustainable food systems.

TL;DR: The results suggest that ensuring an adequate consumption of flavonoid-rich foods, particularly in subpopulations at risk of atherosclerosis such as smokers and consumers of high quantities of alcohol might mitigate some of the risk of Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.