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Climate Change Risks and Impacts on Public Health Correlated with Air Pollution—African Dust in South Europe

by Ioannis Adamopoulos, Niki Syrou and Domenico Vito

Med. Sci. Forum 2025, 33(1), 1; https://doi.org/10.3390/msf2025033001 - 16 Apr 2025

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Climate change poses a significant risk to the environment and public health, leading to extreme weather patterns, rising sea levels, and loss of biodiversity. The relationship between air pollution from African dust and climate change demonstrates its critical role in trapping heat in the atmosphere, resulting in heat-related illnesses, heart problems, and respiratory issues. This research points to the detrimental effects of pollutants such as smog, dust, acid rain, and ozone depletion on ecosystems, highlighting the importance of using geographically weighted regression modeling and the MODIS-NDVI analysis to address air pollution. Particulate Matter (PM_2.5–10) and ozone levels can have negative impacts on respiratory and cardiovascular health. Proactive steps, such as implementing clean energy technologies and enforcing stricter pollution regulations, are necessary to protect public health. Acting is crucial to addressing these global challenges and creating a cleaner, healthier future for future generations, underscoring the need for climate justice commitment. Full article

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The Association of the Global Climate Crisis with Environmental Risks and the Impact of Heat Stress on Occupational Safety, Health, and Hygiene

by Ioannis Adamopoulos, Niki Syrou, George Mpourazanis, Theodoros C. Constantinidis and George Dounias

Med. Sci. Forum 2025, 33(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/msf2025033002 - 21 May 2025

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The relationship between the global climate crisis, which is associated with environmental risks, and occupational hygiene has not been extensively studied. This study develops a framework for identifying how climate change and the climate crisis could impact the workplace environment, workers, and occupational morbidity, mortality, and injury. A framework is used in this paper that is based on a review of the scientific literature published from 2014 to 2024, addressing climate risks, their interaction with occupational hazards, and their effects on the workforce. Eight categories of climate-related hazards are identified: increasingly high temperatures, dust and air pollution, sun and cosmic ultraviolet exposure, pandemics and infectious diseases, diseases transmitted by insects and changes in ecosystems, industrial occupational diseases, changes and crises in the built environment, and extreme weather events. Policies need to consider the gaps in the possibility of interactions between known hazards and new conditions and the productivity of workers, especially those who are most at risk of heat-related illnesses. Full article

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Mapping Public Sentiment: A Data-Driven Analysis of COVID-19 Discourse on Social Media in Italy

by Gabriela Fernandez, Siddharth Suresh-Babu and Domenico Vito

Med. Sci. Forum 2025, 33(1), 3; https://doi.org/10.3390/msf2025033003 - 8 Jul 2025

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This study provides a detailed analysis of COVID-19-related social media discourse in Italy, using 535,886 tweets from 10 major cities between 30 August 2020 and 8 June 2021. The tweets were translated from Italian to English for analysis. A multifaceted methodology was employed: Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) identified 20 key themes; sentiment analysis, using TextBlob, Flair, and TweetNLP, and emotion recognition using TweetNLP, revealed the emotional tone of the discourse, with 453 tweets unanimously positive across all algorithms. TextBlob was used for lexical analysis to rank the most salient positive and negative terms. The results indicated that positive sentiments centered on hope, safety measures, and vaccination progress, while negative sentiments focused on fear, death, and quarantine frustrations. This research offers valuable insights for public health officials, enabling tailored messaging, real-time strategy monitoring, and agile policymaking during the pandemic, with implications for future health crises. Full article

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From Sea to Plate: The Plastic Pollution Problem in the Food Chain

by Carolyne Shealy, Gabriela Fernandez, Domenico Vito and Carol Maione

Med. Sci. Forum 2025, 33(1), 4; https://doi.org/10.3390/msf2025033004 - 15 Jul 2025

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The rising concern over plastic pollution is not only related to pollution in marine and terrestrial habitats but also effects humans. This study analyzes the trophic transfer of microplastics throughout the food chain, with an emphasis on the effects on human health. It provides a review of 12 articles analyzing the microplastic intake by humans via ingestion of fish and environmental exposure. In particular, the reviewed studies focused on microplastic ingestion by fish and animals intended for human consumption, the distribution of microplastics in human tissues, and human blood. The results of this analysis can extend our understanding of microplastic transfer in the human body, with implications for future research. Full article

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