Chronic kidney disease (CKD) requires long-term care with substantial demands of services and resources. Efforts to reduce the environmental burden of nephrology have largely concentrated on haemodialysis, particularly water, energy, consumables and...
Microalgal fucoxanthin is a marine xanthophyll relevant to environmental medicine because it links sustainable resource recovery with prevention-oriented research on environmentally driven metabolic disorders. Methods: This critical narrative review...
Global plastic production has increased exponentially over the past decades. Because of its widespread use and inadequate waste management, plastic pollution has also risen dramatically, becoming a major environmental health concern. Among the result...
Aims: To culturally adapt the Knowing Your Limits with Cannabis for Brazil guide using the Ecological Validity Model (EVM) and an anti-racist framework responsive to prohibitionist environments. Design: Qualitative cultural adaptation study guided by...
Chronic diseases rank among the major challenges for global public health, and interactions between environmental exposures, biological susceptibility, and developmental processes increasingly shape their severity. Evidence indicates that exposure to...
Indoor environments are increasingly recognized as key determinants of human microbial exposure and skin health. Microbiome-aware interventions, including probiotic and prebiotic formulations, have been proposed to complement conventional environment...
In 2024, the annual global surface temperature rose more than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time. This single-year figure is not the same as the long-term warming limit set by the Paris Agreement, but it signals a rising heat-r...
The African esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) corridor extends from Ethiopia to the Eastern Cape and contains some of the highest age-standardized ESCC incidence rates reported anywhere, with five-year survival below 5%. The corridor’s...
Human health is increasingly shaped by the environments in which people live, work, learn, receive care and age [...]
Understanding indoor and outdoor airborne organic mixtures, including semi-volatile organic compounds (sVOCs), remains challenging as quantitative monitoring is often costly and difficult to scale across buildings and individuals. Here we present a l...
Climate change is significantly altering the distribution, seasonality, and transmission dynamics of vector-borne diseases, posing an increasing public health concern, particularly in regions previously considered at low risk. Key climatic variables,...
The aim of this study was to determine the effects of PM10 and PM2.5 particulate matter pollution from the coal mining sector in the three municipalities of Cesar, La Guajira, and El Magdalena on respiratory morbidity in children under 5 years of age...
Cancer is attributed to being caused by multiple genetic, epigenetic, and various direct and indirect environmental factors. Microplastics are defined as pieces of plastic that are smaller than five millimeters. Microplastics have been emphasized as...
Environmental exposure to particulate matter, including PM2.5 and engineered nanomaterials, is a major global health concern. Although acute toxic effects have been widely documented, new evidence suggests that the retained particle burden arising fr...
Flooding is an increasingly frequent climate hazard with the potential to mobilize environmental contaminants and elevate human health risks. In this study, we assessed heavy metals and metalloids across five sites arranged along a flood-risk gradien...
Contamination of agricultural water poses significant health risks that are often underrecognized in clinical practice. This review synthesizes peer-reviewed literature from biomedical and environmental sciences. It examines the pathways by which nit...
The transition to environmentally sustainable healthcare is gaining urgency, yet public discourse shaping this shift remains underexamined. This study employs natural language processing (NLP) to analyze 15,976 English-language tweets (2006–202...
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored and intensified existing structural inequalities, particularly in urban centers of the Global South. This paper revisits the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (SLF), originally designed for rural contexts, propos...
Contemporary global society is confronting unprecedented health challenges [...]
We are delighted to announce the launch of the International Journal of Environmental Medicine (ISSN: 3042-7681) [...]
