Environmental Health

What is environmental health? Environmental health is the study of factors in our environment that can affect human health and disease. Environmental exposures cause hundreds of thousands of illnesses each year, including asthma and cancers. Environmental health professionals learn how to identify, prevent and control those exposures to protect health.

Aim: This study aims to examine the extent to which nonprofit hospitals describe climate-sensitive hazards in their community health needs assessments (CHNAs).Background: Climate change is a pressing public health problem that calls for supportive programming tailored to communities.

Risk factors for type 2 diabetes (T2D) include genetics, age, adiposity, diet, physical activity (PA) levels and environmental conditions.1–3 Putative environmental risk factors include exposure to air pollution-- specifically traffic-related air pollutants--and neighborhood conditions.4–7 A meta-analysis by Yang et al.5 of 11 studies reported an association between fine particulate matter (PM2

This report examines the lifecycle of hatchery salmon and the development of a robust health and safety culture within WDFW. The study underscores the ecological and cultural significance of salmon in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) and addresses the challenges posed by their declining populations.

Environmental surveillance serves as a monitoring tool for detecting the prevalence of viruses and assessing the burden of disease within a population. It is particularly effective in screening for both waterborne and non-waterborne pathogens. Fecal contamination of water resources poses a significant threat to public health, primarily through the transmission of enteric viruses.

Freshwater harmful cyanobacterial blooms (HCBs) present a mounting threat to public health outcomes and lake ecosystem services. The current climate crisis is expected to intensify the occurrence of freshwater HCBs in recreational water bodies, their formation of potent toxins, and resultant human exposures.

Hair is a unique matrix for metal deposition, as it offers a “timeline” of prior exposures (Stadlbauer et al., 2005). This spatiotemporal relationship of exposures along the hair can make possible the estimation of time and duration of exposures.

This pilot study investigates the impact of regular and irregular flushing routines on microbial contamination in eyewash stations across a university, sampling a total of 70 eyewash stations.