Forecast Risks for Urban Population Health from Consumption of Drinking Water Containing Increased Levels of Chloroform

The aim of this work was to determine the natural fluoride concentrations in public water supplies in Piauí State, Brazil, in order to identify cities in risk for high prevalence of dental fluorosis. For each city, two samples of drinking water were collected in the urban area: one from the main public water supply and another from a public or residential tap from the same source. Fluoride analyses were carried out in duplicate using a specific ion electrode and TISAB II. From a total of 222 cities in Piauí, 164 (73.8%) samples were analyzed. Urban population in these towns corresponds to 92.5% of the whole state with an estimated population of 1,654,563 inhabitants from the total urban population (1,788,590 inhabitants). A total of 151 cities showed low fluoride levels (<0.30 mg/L) and 13 were just below optimum fluoride concentration in the drinking water (0.31-0.59 mg/L). High natural fluoride concentration above 0.81 mg/L was not observed in any of the surveyed cities. As a conclusion, most of the cities in Piauí have low fluoride concentration in the drinking water. The risk for a high prevalence of dental fluorosis in these urban areas due to natural fluoride in the water supplies is very unlikely. Thus, surveys about the dental fluorosis prevalence in Piauí should be related with data about the consumption of fluoridated dentifrices and other fluoride sources.

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Design and Development of an Urban Population Health Observatory System to Support COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness, Response and Management (Preprint)

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance ◽

10.2196/28269 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Whitney S Brakefield ◽

Nariman Ammar ◽

Olufunto Olusanya ◽

Arash Shaban-Nejad

Keyword(s):

Population Health ◽

Urban Population ◽

Pandemic Preparedness ◽

Design And Development

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Urban population health risk assessment from traffic noise exposure

IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering ◽

10.1088/1757-899x/1047/1/012165 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1047 (1) ◽

pp. 012165

Author(s):

O V Klepikov ◽

S A Kurolap ◽

N P Mamchik ◽

L N Kostyleva ◽

R A Kondaurov

Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Health Risk ◽

Population Health ◽

Health Risk Assessment ◽

Urban Population ◽

Noise Exposure ◽

Traffic Noise

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An Urban Population Health Observatory System to Support COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness, Response, and Management: Design and Development Study (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.28269 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Whitney S Brakefield ◽

Nariman Ammar ◽

Olufunto A Olusanya ◽

Arash Shaban-Nejad

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Social Determinants Of Health ◽

Population Health ◽

Social Determinants ◽

Urban Population ◽

Data Science ◽

Determinants Of Health ◽

Case Scenario ◽

Effective Interventions ◽

Novel Approach

BACKGROUND COVID-19 is impacting people worldwide and is currently a leading cause of death in many countries. Underlying factors, including Social Determinants of Health (SDoH), could contribute to these statistics. Our prior work has explored associations between SDoH and several adverse health outcomes (eg, asthma and obesity). Our findings reinforce the emerging consensus that SDoH factors should be considered when implementing intelligent public health surveillance solutions to inform public health policies and interventions. OBJECTIVE This study sought to redefine the Healthy People 2030’s SDoH taxonomy to accommodate the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, we aim to provide a blueprint and implement a prototype for the Urban Population Health Observatory (UPHO), a web-based platform that integrates classified group-level SDoH indicators to individual- and aggregate-level population health data. METHODS The process of building the UPHO involves collecting and integrating data from several sources, classifying the collected data into drivers and outcomes, incorporating data science techniques for calculating measurable indicators from the raw variables, and studying the extent to which interventions are identified or developed to mitigate drivers that lead to the undesired outcomes. RESULTS We generated and classified the indicators of social determinants of health, which are linked to COVID-19. To display the functionalities of the UPHO platform, we presented a prototype design to demonstrate its features. We provided a use case scenario for 4 different users. CONCLUSIONS UPHO serves as an apparatus for implementing effective interventions and can be adopted as a global platform for chronic and infectious diseases. The UPHO surveillance platform provides a novel approach and novel insights into immediate and long-term health policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and other future public health crises. The UPHO assists public health organizations and policymakers in their efforts in reducing health disparities, achieving health equity, and improving urban population health.

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Beyond the Water Environmental Management in the Operational Building Phase for Its Application to the Peruvian Context

Advances in Civil and Industrial Engineering - Health and Well-Being Considerations in the Design of Indoor Environments ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-7279-5.ch005 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 97-113

Author(s):

Estela Karem Samamé Zegarra

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Environmental Management ◽

Drinking Water ◽

Environmental Assessment ◽

Urban Population ◽

World Population ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The World ◽

Water Treatments ◽

Water Environmental Management

The world population is expected to be 9.3 billion by 2050, with a high increase in the urban population. It is worth considering that 71.7% of the surface of the earth covered by water, but only 3% of this water can be used as drinking water. In cities, buildings are recognized as one of the largest users of freshwater resources in construction and operation. The water use impact is different in some countries because some use conventional water treatments while other ones rely on advanced desalination. Climate change and population growth are clearly putting pressure on the world's water supply, so the first environmental assessment plan for buildings was launched in 1990 by the BRE in the United Kingdom where the water category is included in its environmental assessment.

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Blood donor deferral in Minas Gerais State, Brazil: blood centers as sentinels of urban population health

Transfusion ◽

10.1111/j.1537-2995.2008.02062.x ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 49 (5) ◽

pp. 851-857 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Cláudia Di Lorenzo Oliveira ◽

Flávia Loureiro ◽

Maria R.D. de Bastos ◽

Fernando A. Proietti ◽

Anna B.F. Carneiro-Proietti

Keyword(s):

Population Health ◽

Blood Donor ◽

Urban Population ◽

Minas Gerais ◽

Minas Gerais State ◽

Donor Deferral

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ASSESSMENT OF CARCINOGENIC RISK TO POPULATION HEALTH DUE TO THE QUALITY OF DRINKING WATER OF SURFACE AND INFILTRATION WATER INTAKES

Water and Ecology ◽

10.23968/2305-3488.2018.23.1.59-64 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 59-64

Author(s):

Mariya Aleksandrovna Malkova ◽

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Margarita Yurevna Vozhdaeva ◽

Evgenij Abramovich Kantor ◽

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Keyword(s):

Drinking Water ◽

Population Health ◽

Carcinogenic Risk

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Impact of the demographic and socio-economic factors on the population health

POPULATION ◽

10.19181/1561-7785-2019-00028 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 80-92

Author(s):

Elena Budilova ◽

Mikhail Lagutin ◽

Lyudmila Migranova

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Population Health ◽

Urban Population ◽

Respiratory Diseases ◽

Total Population ◽

Economic Factors ◽

Health Index ◽

Circulatory System Diseases ◽

External Causes ◽

Socio Economic Factors

Public health depends on many factors: genetic, climatic, environmental, behavioral, socio-economic, institutional. The article presents the results of a study of the influence of demographic and socio-economic factors on the characteristics of population health — population health index (PНI) and primary disease incidence by main classes of diseases. The study was conducted using the methods of correlation analysis with the account of differences between the RF subjects. The information base was provided by Rosstat data on the subjects of the Russian Federation for 2014–2016. The results of the study showed that the population health index had stable, significant positive relations only with the share of working-age people (%) in the total population, and negative ones with the ratio of women and men in the total population. Only urban population (as % of total) is significantly related to most of the main diseases. Urban population is less prone to circulatory system diseases, but more susceptible to infectious and parasitic diseases, cancers, respiratory diseases, injuries, poisoning and other external causes, that may be due to both the negative impact of the urban environment on public health and the higher detection rate of diseases due to the greater accessibility of health services for urban population. Among the socio-economic factors having significant correlations with health indicators were per capita GRP and population per doctor. In the economically more successful regions (as a rule, with developed industrial production) the incidence of circulatory diseases is lower, but the incidence of cancers, respiratory diseases, injuries, poisoning, and other consequences of external causes is higher. Quality of life index is significantly related to diseases of the respiratory and digestive organs. Characteristics of population health had no significant stable relation to consumption of basic foodstuffs.

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