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Jason Corburn, Patrick Njoroge, Jane Weru and Maureen Musya
Urban informal settlements or slums are among the most vulnerable places to climate-change-related health risks. Yet, little data exist documenting environmental and human health vulnerabilities in slums or how to move research to action. Citizen science...
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Shahir Masri, Yufang Jin and Jun Wu
Major wildfires and heatwaves have begun to increase in frequency throughout much of the United States, particularly in western states such as California, causing increased risk to public health. Air pollution is exacerbated by both wildfires and warmer ...
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Matthew Ellis and Puspa Raj Pant
This special issue of IJERPH has published a range of studies in this developing field of Global Community Child Health research. A number of manuscripts submitted in response to our invitation describing ?community-based interventions which impact on ch...
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Rajen Govender, David Kimemia, Nancy Hornsby, Ashley van Niekerk
Burn injuries remain a significant cause of death and disability in the global south, with children amongst the most vulnerable. In South Africa, burns are a critical health and economic burden in densely populated and energy-impoverished communities. Th...
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Ernesto Burgio, Prisco Piscitelli and Annamaria Colao
The dominant pathogenic model, somatic mutation theory (SMT), considers carcinogenesis as a ?genetic accident? due to the accumulation of ?stochastic? DNA mutations. This model was proposed and accepted by the scientific community when cancer mainly affe...
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M. Jayaweera,J Manatunge,A. Witharana
It is imperative that Sri Lanka grasps the concepts of green jobs to meet the most vital but intricatechallenge of the 21st Century, which is the transformation to a sustainable and a low-carbon economy.Such a transformation or a paradigm shift, which ca...
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