scholarly journals Production Usage, and Potential Public Health Effects of Aluminum Cookware: A Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Okunola A. Alabi ◽  
Yetunde M. Adeoluwa
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Health Effect ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cooked Food ◽  
Scrap Metals ◽  
Arsenic Copper ◽  
Aluminum Cookware

AbstractThe ingestion of aluminum from food containers such as cookware, cans, utensils and wrappings and its subsequent release into the environment is a growing public health concern. Aluminum is widely used in manufacturing cookware due to its malleability, high heat conductivity, light weight, durability, availability and affordability. This paper therefore gives a review of most relevant literatures on the benefits and risks of the various types of aluminum cookware in use, the composition and the public health effects of aluminum ingestion. Studies that reported the leaching of aluminum from cookware into food and environmental effects of aluminum leaching were also reviewed. In the developing countries, aluminum cookwares are produced from scrap metals and has been reported to leach harmful substances including heavy metals such as: nickel, arsenic, copper, cadmium, lead, and aluminum into cooked food. Several factors have been reported to increase the rate of leaching of metals from aluminum cookwares. Exposure to metals from aluminum cookware and the public health effects have not been well studied, hence, our recommendation for more studies to elucidate the health effect of this practice. This review also presents measures that can limit exposure to the risks that may arise from the use of aluminum cookware.

scholarly journals Agro-Environmental Determinants of Leptospirosis: A Retrospective Spatiotemporal Analysis (2004−2014) in Mahasarakham Province (Thailand)

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Jaruwan Viroj ◽  
Julien Claude ◽  
Claire Lajaunie ◽  
Julien Cappelle ◽  
Anamika Kritiyakan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Spatiotemporal Analysis ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Intersectoral Collaboration ◽  
The Public ◽  
Additive Modeling ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control ◽  
Northeastern Thailand

Leptospirosis has been recognized as a major public health concern in Thailand following dramatic outbreaks. We analyzed human leptospirosis incidence between 2004 and 2014 in Mahasarakham province, Northeastern Thailand, in order to identify the agronomical and environmental factors likely to explain incidence at the level of 133 sub-districts and 1,982 villages of the province. We performed general additive modeling (GAM) in order to take the spatial-temporal epidemiological dynamics into account. The results of GAM analyses showed that the average slope, population size, pig density, cow density and flood cover were significantly associated with leptospirosis occurrence in a district. Our results stress the importance of livestock favoring leptospirosis transmission to humans and suggest that prevention and control of leptospirosis need strong intersectoral collaboration between the public health, the livestock department and local communities. More specifically, such collaboration should integrate leptospirosis surveillance in both public and animal health for a better control of diseases in livestock while promoting public health prevention as encouraged by the One Health approach.

Public Health and a President’s Racism

Pained ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 29-30
Author(s):  
Michael D. Stein ◽  
Sandro Galea
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
The Public ◽  
Negative Side ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

This chapter addresses how racism presents a clear threat to the health of populations. In 2018, President Donald Trump made racist comments toward countries with predominantly nonwhite populations. Why did the president’s racism matter for the health of the public? To answer this question, one needs to understand where health comes from. Health is the product of the social, economic, and cultural context in which people live. This context is also shaped by social norms that do much to determine people’s behaviors and their consequences. Changing these norms can produce both positive and negative health effects. On the positive side, changing norms can promote health, by making unacceptable unhealthy conditions and behaviors that were once common, even celebrated. On the negative side, changing norms for the worse can empower elements of hate in society. When a president promotes hate, it shifts norms, suggesting that hate does in fact have a place in the country and the world. This opens the door to more hate crimes, more exclusion of minority groups from salutary resources, and little to no effort to address racial health gaps.

scholarly journals Early or Forced Marriage and the Roles of Primary Healthcare

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 01-07
Author(s):  
Emmanuel A Agege
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Early Marriage ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Forced Marriage ◽  
The Public

Early marriage is the marriage done before or during adolescence, about 60% to 70% girls are forced to married early ages in several African and Asian countries. Even their basic human rights are not provided to them; these resulted several psychological and physiological health problems. The purpose of this paper is to narratively review the health problems/issues inherent in forced marriage and enunciate the roles of the public health care in ameliorating them. There was review of the health effects of early marriage grouped into psychological, pathophysiological, antenatal malaria and socio-cultural injustice, recommendations on how the public health-care roles can be useful tools to combating these unhealthy practices fostered by obsolete traditional beliefs and gross ignorance from both the victims and their parents. From the review of the previous studies, though no previous study has been documented in my locations for the study, there were great negative impactful health effects of early marriage on women, it was also obvious that the public health care providers can be vital in controlling or reducing these age-long anomalies. The grave dangers of early marriage on women were elucidated, its prevalence, the adverse consequences on the women as obviously observed were critically examined with enthusiasm and concerns. Therefore, the recommendations as per the roles of primary healthcare which includes teaching, surveillance, screening etc., in mitigating should be seriously adopted to curb the trend.

scholarly journals Incorporating Issues of Elderly Loneliness into the Coronavirus Disease–2019 Public Health Response

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. e13-e14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonny S. Patel ◽  
Aaron Clark-Ginsberg
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Response ◽  
Elderly Populations

ABSTRACTAs the systems that people depend on are increasingly strained by the coronavirus disease–2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, public health impacts are manifesting in different ways beyond morbidity and mortality for elderly populations. Loneliness is already a chief public health concern that is being made worse by COVID-19. Agencies should recognize the prevalence of loneliness among elderly populations and the impacts that their interventions have on loneliness. This letter describes several ways that loneliness can be addressed to build resilience for elderly populations as part of the public health response to COVID-19.

Costo-beneficio del trattamento con i farmaci antivirali ad azione diretta nei consumatori di sostanze con epatite C: una valutazione del percorso di point of care

MISSION ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 8-17
Author(s):  
Felice A. Nava ◽  
Lucia Trevisi ◽  
Alfio Lucchini
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Cost Saving ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Point Of Care ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Hcv Treatment ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Cost

Background Hepatitis C is a disease correlated with severe systemic consequences having elevated social and health costs. The HCV elimination is a public health concern that may be solved reaching DAAs treatment for drug users. The principal aim of this work is to evaluate the cost-benefit of a point of care for HCV treatment of drug users inside Drug abuse services (Ser.D.). Methods The study consists in a cost-benefit analysis able to evaluate the "return of health" induced by a point of care for a HCV treatment. Results The work shows that the point of care is cost-benefit in comparison with the "traditional" treatment being cost saving for the public health system. The data suggest that the cost of the point of care is corresponding to euros 593,40 while the cost of not treatment of euros 8.679,60 (due to the direct and indirect costs of the disease). Conclusions The study demonstrate the point of care is an effective model of care able to reduce the barriers of treatment and to induce a "health return" in term of cost saving for the public health systems. Indeed, the work shows how the point of care may make the elimination HCV plans sustainable for the public health agencies.

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