Indicators of Public Health and Environmental Quality

1995 ◽  
pp. 25-39
Author(s):  
Erik Lebret
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Quality

scholarly journals Indoor Environmental Quality in Dwellings and Lifestyle Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Russian Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 5975
Author(s):  
Vladimir Reshetnikov ◽  
Oleg Mitrokhin ◽  
Elena Belova ◽  
Victor Mikhailovsky ◽  
Maria Mikerova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Indoor Environmental Quality ◽  
Lifestyle Behaviors ◽  
Contagious Diseases ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Public Health Authorities ◽  
Isolation Index ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern, and as a response, public health authorities started enforcing preventive measures like self-isolation and social distancing. The enforcement of isolation has consequences that may affect the lifestyle-related behavior of the general population. Quarantine encompasses a range of strategies that can be used to detain, isolate, or conditionally release individuals or populations infected or exposed to contagious diseases and should be tailored to circumstances. Interestingly, medical students may represent an example of how the COVID-19 pandemic can form new habits and change lifestyle behaviors. We conducted a web-based survey to assess changes in lifestyle-related behavior of self-isolated medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Then we analyzed the sanitary-hygienic regulations of the Russian Federation to determine the requirements for healthy buildings. Results showed that during the pandemic, the enforcement of isolation affects medical students’ lifestyle-related behavior and accompanies an increase in non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and healthy buildings are cutting-edge factors in preventing COVID-19 and NCDs. The Russian sanitary-hygienic regulations support improving this factor with suitable requirements for ventilation, sewage, waste management, and disinfection. Herein, assessing isolation is possible through the hygienic self-isolation index.

scholarly journals ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY OF CAMPINA GRANDE LANDFILL BASED ON TECHNICAL AND OPERATIONAL ASPECTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (32) ◽  
pp. 77-86
Author(s):  
Márbara Vilar de Araújo ALMEIDA ◽  
Elisângela Maria da SILVA ◽  
Naiara Ângelo GOMES ◽  
Luís Antônio Oliveira NUNES ◽  
Wilson Fadlo CURI
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Operational Conditions ◽  
Environmentally Safe ◽  
Urban Solid Waste ◽  
Environmental Requirements ◽  
Environmentally Sound ◽  
Operational Aspects

Landfills have become the main environmentally sound form of final disposal of urban solid waste and when properly managed, do not cause harm or risks to public health. The objective of this work was to perform an analysis of the environmental quality of the Landfill in Campina Grande / PB, in order to verify if the landfill meets the technical standards and environmental requirements. In the analysis of the data collected were used, as reference, the standards NBR 8,419 (ABNT, 1992) and NBR 13,896 (ABNT, 1997). From the analyzed data, it was verified, that the landfill presents technical and operational conditions for the employees to work and an operability that makes possible the accomplishment of the activities in a satisfactory and environmentally safe way. Thus, the studied area is appropriate for the waste disposal activity according to NBR 8,419 (ABNT, 1992) and NBR 13,896 (ABNT, 1997). However, improvements are suggested for the internal access routes, since, because they are not paved, it may hinder the passage of trucks that discharge the waste on days of intense rain.

scholarly journals Towards global architecture. The project between technique and technology

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 021-025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto De Capua
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Human Footprint ◽  
Policy Statements

Environment, ecosystem, greenhouse effect emissions, public health, energy, sustainable development. This is an incomplete list of elements that are part of our daily lives, which show today’s human footprint responsibility over the health of the planet. Although these issues have been for decades on all policy statements on development the situation is not improving. Indeed, constantly, we are called to change our lifestyle and our models of well-being that are causing an exaggerated and increasing waste of energy and resources, along with the increase of the overall impact of human species on natural systems. I do believe the environment is a resource that has been exploited and neglected for too long, however I am also convinced that excessive (ab)use of certain terms, such as the concept of sustainability, has weakened its driving force and innovation. There is no doubt that the thematic areas related to the monitoring of environmental quality and sustainable development dominate the cultural and socio-economic scenery for the articulation program design and governance of the territory, but the risk we are running today is to flatten themes of 'environment only for propaganda or even worse for the market. The report is a reasoning on innovation, technology and the complexity that now accompanies any work of transformation and that should lead to a "possible future”.

Environmental Factors to Consider When Designing and Maintaining a Child's Day-Care Environment

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 94 (6) ◽  
pp. 1048-1050
Author(s):  
Catherine Staes ◽  
Sophie Balk ◽  
Kathleen Ford ◽  
Richard J. Passantino ◽  
Antonio Torrice
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Early Childhood Development ◽  
Childhood Development ◽  
Care Environment

While each panel participant approached the issue of environmental quality from a different viewpoint, they all agreed that children differ from adults with respect to their susceptibility to and interactions with their environment. Also, these differences must be considered when people create environments for child care. More research is needed to answer many important questions. Many hazards can be prevented or controlled, if recognized, and early childhood development can be enhanced through informed decisions made during the design and maintenance of CCCs. People from disciplines of public health, architecture, and interior design must work together to provide healthy and stimulating environments for our nation's children.

Greening chemistry and ecotoxicology towards sustainable environmental quality

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 2575-2582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan W. Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Management Systems

Pursuit of sustainable environmental quality is a noble goal, but global megatrends, highlighted by concentration of chemical use in cities faster than implementation of waste management systems, present emerging risks to public health and the environment.

scholarly journals Building Healthy Community Environments: A Public Health Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 133 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 35S-43S ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Koehler ◽  
Megan Latshaw ◽  
Thomas Matte ◽  
Daniel Kass ◽  
Howard Frumkin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Burden Of Disease ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Health Practitioners

Environmental quality has a profound effect on health and the burden of disease. In the United States, the environment-related burden of disease is increasingly dominated by chronic diseases. At the local level, public health practitioners realize that many policy decisions affecting environmental quality and health transcend the authorities of traditional health department programs. Healthy decisions about the built environment, including housing, transportation, and energy, require broad collaborative efforts. Environmental health professionals have an opportunity to address the shift in public health burden toward chronic diseases and play an important role in the design of healthy communities by bringing data and tools to decision makers. This article provides a guide for community leaders to consider the public health effects of decisions about the built environment. We present a conceptual framework that represents a shift from compartmentalized solutions toward an inclusive systems approach that encourages partnership across disciplines and sectors. We discuss practical tools to assist with environmental decision making, such as Health Impact Assessments, environmental public health tracking, and cumulative risk assessment. We also identify priorities in research, practice, and education to advance the role of public health in decision making to improve health, such as the Health Impact Assessment, as a core competency for environmental health practitioners. We encourage cross-disciplinary communication, research, and education that bring the fields of planning, transportation, and energy in closer collaboration with public health to jointly advance the systems approach to today’s environmental challenges.

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