Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Environmental health"
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Air Pollution and Morbidity: A Comprehensive Assessment
(2020-09-25)As developing countries continue to industrialize and the effects of climate change begin to manifest, air pollution continues to be the greatest environmental risk factor to health and research in this area continues to ... -
Ambient Exposures and Population Mental Health in the U.S.
(2022-01-14)Mental health is one important aspect of a healthy life. Emerging evidence has shown that the total ambient environment is shaping human brain health, which may further lead to adverse population mental health. In the ... -
Assessing indoor exposures to particulate matter and radon
(2021-01-20)Indoor air pollutants are ranked in the top five environmental risks to public health. As the time spent indoors is large enough and increasing over time, we were interested in understanding sources, transport, physicochemical ... -
Assessing the Air Pollution Health and Climate Impacts of Transportation as the U.S. Shifts to Electric and Autonomous Vehicles
(2021-03-05)Vehicles remain a major climate and public health issue in the United States despite decades of regulation. In order to mitigate this burden, electric vehicles (EVs) are starting to be deployed in larger numbers, and there ... -
Buildings, Indoor Environment, and Human Health and Performance
(2021-05-12)Indoor environmental quality in office buildings can impact the health and performance of office workers. Characterizing these impacts and evaluating solutions for reducing harmful exposures are important in order to protect ... -
Causal Propositions on Air Pollution and Human Health
(2021-01-20)Fine particulate matter (PM2.5), ozone (O3), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are considered leading threats to human health, largely based on historical associations calculated from traditional statistical analyses. These studies ... -
Climate Change and Health: Implications for Cardiovascular Diseases and Inherently Hot Regions
(2022-06-06)The warming of our planet is unevenly distributed. In inherently hot and hyper-arid countries like Kuwait, temperatures are already soaring to unprecedented record-high levels and not a lot is known about what climate ... -
Discovery of smoking-related biomarkers for advanced treatment in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
(2022-03-17)Lung cancer is one of the most diagnosed cancers and the leading cause of cancer death globally. Up to 60% of the non-small cell lung cancer lung (NSCLC) cancer patients are diagnosed with distant metastases with a poor ... -
Drinking Through a Toxic Straw: Identifying the Socioeconomic Indicators and Regulatory Flaws Characterizing Tap Water Lead in New Jersey
(2022-03-08)The risks posed by Lead (Pb), a persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic heavy metal, to individuals through drinking water garnered increased attention in response to the contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan (beginning ... -
Early Pregnancy Plasma Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and Maternal Cardiometabolic Health
(2024-03-12)Cardiovascular disease, a condition significantly impacted by overall cardiometabolic health, is the leading cause of death for women in the United States. Studying environmental exposures during windows of elevated ... -
Environmental Exposures and Diabetes Risk
(2022-06-06)With type 2 diabetes (T2D) reaching epidemic proportions globally and domestically, and mounting evidence for the role of environmental exposures in diabetes risk, the time is ripe for further epidemiologic investigation ... -
Environmental Exposures and Female Reproductive Aging
(2021-07-12)Reproductive aging is one of the major determinants of fertility and can profoundly affect women’s health and well-being in later life. Epidemiological studies have identified external factors related to reproductive aging, ... -
Environmental Exposures, Mental Health Outcomes, and Connection to the Metabolome: An Exposomics Framework
(2023-05-12)Anxiety and depression are the most prevalent of all psychiatric disorders both domestically and globally, fueling an urgency to identify and intervene on possible individual- and population-level risk factors. With the ... -
Environmental Radiation and Fetal Outcomes: From the Ground to the Sky
(2023-05-01)Background radiation is an environmental risk factor for human diseases that is often overlooked. This dissertation focuses on two major ionizing radiation exposures that occur naturally at chronic and low doses, particle ... -
Environmental Radiation and Human Health: From Radon to the Sun
(2022-06-06)Environmental radiation, often referred to as “background radiation”, is around us all the time. There are three main natural sources of environmental radiation: cosmic radiation that comes from the sun and stars, terrestrial ... -
Estimating the Health Effects of Environmental Exposures: Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Spatio-temporal Data
(2013-10-08)In the field of environmental epidemiology, there is a great deal of care required in constructing models that accurately estimate the effects of environmental exposures on human health. This is because the nature of the ... -
Expanding the Purview of Environmental Data Report-back and Environmental Health Literacy
(2021-09-10)Access to information and resources is not equitably distributed (1–5). These inequities have been associated with adverse health outcomes (6–9). Enhancing access to personal health data and information via data democratization ... -
HIGH-RESOLUTION DATA ON MOBILITY, THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: Embedding smartphone GPS and consumer wearables within a cohort study to improve environmental epidemiology
(2023-05-02)The ubiquitous nature of smartphones and wearable devices create novel opportunities for epidemiological exposure assessment and measurement error correction within the context of the built and natural environments. Since ... -
Household, Housing, and Neighborhood Drivers of Environmental Health Disparities
(2023-06-01)Attention to both environmental hazards and social factors is required to understand environmental health disparities. In the past, researchers raised two challenges with regard to this assertion. One is to understand the ... -
Impact of Environmental Chemical Mixtures on Maternal and Child Mental Health
(2022-03-17)Background: Internalizing disorders, such as anxiety and depression, are of public health concern. The prevalence of these psychiatric illnesses has been increasing in recent decades, with vulnerable groups including ...