scholarly journals Soil-Food-Environment-Health Nexus for Sustainable Development

Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Baojing Gu ◽  
Deli Chen ◽  
Yi Yang ◽  
Peter Vitousek ◽  
Yong-Guan Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Soil Properties ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Food Environment ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Changes In Soil Properties

Changes in soil properties and processes can influence food and environmental quality, thus, affecting human health and welfare through biogeochemical cascades among soil, food, environment, and human health. However, because many soil properties change much more slowly than do management practices and pollution to soil, the legacy of past influences on soil can have long-term effects on both human health and sustainability. It is essential and urgent to manage soils for health and sustainability through building the soil-food-environment-health nexus.

Explosions and Human Health: The Long-Term Effects of Blast Injury

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Finlay ◽  
Michelle Earby ◽  
David J. Baker ◽  
Virginia S.G. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Blast Injury ◽  
Mass Casualties ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
National Guidelines ◽  
Emergency Responders ◽  
Response Strategies

AbstractThe immediate patterns of injury from explosions are well documented, from both military and civil experience. However, few studies have focused on less immediately apparent health consequences and latent effects of explosions in survivors, emergency responders and the surrounding community. This review aimed to analyze the risks to health following an explosion in a civil setting.A comprehensive review of the open literature was conducted, and data on 10 relevant military, civilian and industrial events were collected. Events were selected according to availability of published studies and involvement of large numbers of people injured. In addition, structured interviews with experts in the field were conducted, and existing national guidelines reviewed.The review revealed significant and potentially long-term health implications affecting various body systems and psychological well-being following exposure to an explosion. An awareness of the short- and long-term health effects of explosions is essential in screening for blast injuries, and identifying latent pathologies that could otherwise be overlooked in stressful situations with other visually distracting injuries and, often, mass casualties. Such knowledge would guide responsible medical staff in implementing early appropriate interventions to reduce the burden of long-term sequelae. Effective planning and response strategies would ensure accessibility of appropriate health care resources and evidence-based information in the aftermath of an explosion.Finlay SE, Earby M, Baker DJ, Murray VSG. Explosions and human health: the long-term effects of blast injury. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2012;27(4):1-7.

Assessing changes in soil properties in the eastern part of the Nile delta over a long-term period

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-44
Author(s):  
El Sayed said Mohamed Mohamed ◽  
A. V. Shuravilin ◽  
M. U. Lyashko ◽  
Abdel-Nasser Rashash
Keyword(s):  
Soil Properties ◽  
Nile Delta ◽  
Changes In Soil Properties

scholarly journals The hygiene hypothesis, the COVID pandemic, and consequences for the human microbiome

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (6) ◽  
pp. e2010217118
Author(s):  
B. Brett Finlay ◽  
Katherine R. Amato ◽  
Meghan Azad ◽  
Martin J. Blaser ◽  
Thomas C. G. Bosch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Human Microbiome ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Hygiene Hypothesis ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
Future Challenges

The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to affect the human microbiome in infected and uninfected individuals, having a substantial impact on human health over the long term. This pandemic intersects with a decades-long decline in microbial diversity and ancestral microbes due to hygiene, antibiotics, and urban living (the hygiene hypothesis). High-risk groups succumbing to COVID-19 include those with preexisting conditions, such as diabetes and obesity, which are also associated with microbiome abnormalities. Current pandemic control measures and practices will have broad, uneven, and potentially long-term effects for the human microbiome across the planet, given the implementation of physical separation, extensive hygiene, travel barriers, and other measures that influence overall microbial loss and inability for reinoculation. Although much remains uncertain or unknown about the virus and its consequences, implementing pandemic control practices could significantly affect the microbiome. In this Perspective, we explore many facets of COVID-19−induced societal changes and their possible effects on the microbiome, and discuss current and future challenges regarding the interplay between this pandemic and the microbiome. Recent recognition of the microbiome’s influence on human health makes it critical to consider both how the microbiome, shaped by biosocial processes, affects susceptibility to the coronavirus and, conversely, how COVID-19 disease and prevention measures may affect the microbiome. This knowledge may prove key in prevention and treatment, and long-term biological and social outcomes of this pandemic.

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