Environmental Health
A section of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Section Information
Environmental public health focuses on the action of the environment on human health. The field encompasses exposure science as exemplified by the exposome, health effect studies, including the effects of exposure on human physiology, and environmental policy development.
Keywords
- Human health and ecological risk assessment
- Management of natural and anthropogenic hazards
- Emergency management of natural and man-made disasters
- Chemical substances and harmful radiation
- Environmental pollution (air, water, soil, food) by physical, biological and/or chemical agents
- Environmental control and mitigation of vector-borne diseases
- Medical geology and environmental medicine
- Mechanisms of environmental diseases epigenetics, genomics, epidemiology, informatics and big data, molecular modeling
- Built environment and social environments
- Urban, rural environments
- Environmental justice
- Global climate change and planetary health
Editorial Board
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Urban Environment and Health (Deadline: 30 July 2020)
- Emergency Medical/Public Health Response for Nuclear Events (Deadline: 31 July 2020)
- Rare Diseases Epidemiology Research: The State-of-the-Art and Future Perspectives (Deadline: 31 July 2020)
- Impact of Environmental Levels of Bisphenol A on Health (Deadline: 31 July 2020)
- Hospital and Technical Hygiene - Aims and Needs (Deadline: 31 July 2020)
- 2nd Edition of Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health-EDRM) (Deadline: 31 July 2020)
- Air Pollution and Climate Change-Mediated Health Impacts (Deadline: 31 July 2020)
- Medical Geology (Deadline: 31 July 2020)
- Environmental and Food Hygiene (Deadline: 31 July 2020)
- Phthalates and Bisphenol-A: Determinations, Levels and Effects on Human Health and Environment (Deadline: 10 August 2020)
- Outdoor and Indoor Biological Air Quality and Public Health (Deadline: 15 August 2020)
- Towards Safer Construction in Developing Countries (Deadline: 31 August 2020)
- Health Risk Across the Life-Course: From Behavior to Environment (Deadline: 31 August 2020)
- Environmental Epigenetics: Implications for Health and Disease (Deadline: 31 August 2020)
- The Health Influences of Organochlorine Pesticides (Deadline: 31 August 2020)
- (In)Direct Health Effects of Extreme Weather (Deadline: 31 August 2020)
- Environment–Macromycetes (Fungi)–Edible Fungi (Deadline: 31 August 2020)
- Community-Centred Approaches to Public Health (Deadline: 31 August 2020)
- Trace Element Exposure and Metabolism in Human Health (Deadline: 31 August 2020)
- Machine Learning, Stochastic Modelling and Applied Statistics for EMF Exposure Assessment (Deadline: 1 September 2020)
- Environmental Pollution and Thyroid (Deadline: 30 September 2020)
- Examining the Social and Environmental Factors Influencing Food Insecurity in Rural Areas (Deadline: 30 September 2020)
- Environmental Pollution and Oxidative Status (Deadline: 30 September 2020)
- Ecology, Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Control of Vectors and Vector-Borne Pathogens in Temperate Regions (Deadline: 30 September 2020)
- Miniaturized Monitors for Occupational Exposure Assessment (Deadline: 30 September 2020)
- Antimicrobial Resistance: Tackling This Pressing Global Health Challenge (Deadline: 30 September 2020)
- Air Pollution Meteorology (Deadline: 30 September 2020)
- Public Health Implications of Microbiological Contamination in the Integrated Water Cycle (Deadline: 30 September 2020)
- Environmental Health and Well-Being of Indigenous People (Deadline: 30 September 2020)
- Environmental Health: Feature Review Papers (Deadline: 30 September 2020)
- Oceans and Human Health: The Importance of Marine Ecosystems on Human Health and Wellbeing (Deadline: 30 September 2020)
- Environmental Exposures and Autism Spectrum Disorders (Deadline: 1 October 2020)
- Multiple Environmental and Lifestyle Determinants of Asthma and Poor Asthma Control (Deadline: 1 October 2020)
- Climate Change Adaption for Public Health (Deadline: 31 October 2020)
- Social Inequities in Cardiovascular Health: Unexplored Immigrant and Mobility Effects (Deadline: 31 October 2020)
- Impact of Pesticides Mixtures at Low Doses (Deadline: 31 October 2020)
- Environmental and Health Impacts of Fire: Primary and Secondary Effects in Local and Global Scale (Deadline: 31 October 2020)
- The Environment and Reproductive Health: Feature Papers (Deadline: 31 October 2020)
- Evaluations of Sound and Vibration in the Built Environments (Deadline: 31 October 2020)
- Space, Place and Health Outcomes (Deadline: 31 October 2020)
- LCA, LCI and LCIA as Tools to Assess the Impact of Environmental Remedies for Water, Soil and Air (Deadline: 31 October 2020)
- Drone Noise: A New Public Health Challenge (Deadline: 15 November 2020)
- Gene-Environment Interactions, Epigenetics, and Human Health (Deadline: 20 November 2020)
- Transdisciplinary Studies in Planetary Health (Deadline: 30 November 2020)
- Occupational and Environmental Asthma (Deadline: 30 November 2020)
- Health Impacts of the Built Environment and Transport Planning (Deadline: 30 November 2020)
- Air Pollution, Climate Change and Respiratory Health (Deadline: 30 November 2020)
- Asbestos and Health (Deadline: 30 November 2020)
- Fish as an Environmental Quality and Human Health Bioindicator (Deadline: 30 November 2020)
- Organic Aerosols: Sources and Processes (Deadline: 30 November 2020)
- Perspectives on Social and Environmental Determinants of Oral Health (Deadline: 30 November 2020)
- Asthma, Exercise, and the Environment (Deadline: 1 December 2020)
- Interdisciplinary Multi-Stakeholder Environment and Health Research: Challenges and Opportunities (Deadline: 1 December 2020)
- Investigating Urban Gardening as a Public Health Strategy (Deadline: 15 December 2020)
- Natural Experience of Urban Park and Forest Contributes to Preventive Medicine such as Lifestyle-related Diseases and Depression (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Climate Health-Being: The Physical, Mental, and Financial Burden of Extreme Weather Events? (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Improving the Health of Rural, Minority Populations (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Genetic Epidemiology: The State-of-the-Art and Future Perspectives (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Experimental Microbiologic Investigations in Clinical Specimens, Foods and the Environments (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Indoor Air Quality and Health Outcomes in Energy-Efficient Buildings (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Health Impact Assessment (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Assessment of Environmental Radioactivity and Radiation for Human Health Risk (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Maternal and Child Health Impacts of Environmental Exposures (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Diagnosis and Control (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Solid Waste Management among Rural Communities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Interaction of Built and Social Features of the Environment in Determining Health and Health Disparities (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Neurocognitive Disorders and Environmental Pollution (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Housing and Health (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Territorial and Social Health Inequalities (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Nosocomial Infection and Prevention (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Beyond Technical Aspects: Food Safety/Security from Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Health Effects of Traffic-Related Air Pollution (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Solutions for Improving Essential Environmental Conditions in Healthcare Facilities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Assessment of Human Exposure Pathways to Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Spatial Modeling of Air Pollutant Variability (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Environmental Exposure and Cancer Risk in Healthy Populations (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Rethinking the Power of Architectures for Pandemics That Promote Healing: A New Design, Learning and Management Approach (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- COVID-19: A Public Health Approach for Health Professionals (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Managing Forest Fire Smoke and Impacts on Health in an Era of Escalating Fire Risk (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- COVID-19 in North America: Clinical, Psychosocial, Laboratory, and Epidemiological Aspects (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Statistical Advances in Epidemiology and Public Health (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Arsenic Exposure in Environment and Human Health (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Environmental Health Studies with Remote Sensing Technologies: Exposure Assessment and Health Outcomes (Deadline: 31 December 2020)
- Understanding and Responding to Aquifer Vulnerability and Associated Health Risks (Deadline: 1 January 2021)
- Fire Vulnerability and Prevention and Suppression Effectiveness under Ongoing Global Change (Deadline: 31 January 2021)
- One Health Perspectives for Infectious Disease Research (Deadline: 31 January 2021)
- Time-Space Modeling of the Health Effects of Environment 2020 (Deadline: 31 January 2021)
- The Effects of Air Pollution and Traffic Exposure in the General Population (Deadline: 31 January 2021)
- Air Pollution Interventions: Implementation Research and Data Driven Studies (Deadline: 31 January 2021)
- From Environmental Health Inequalities to Environmental Health Justice (Deadline: 31 January 2021)
- Urban Resilience and Population Health (Deadline: 31 January 2021)
- The Role of Human Concepts in Environmental and Public Health (Deadline: 31 January 2021)
- The COVID-19 Pandemic in Europe: Response to Challenges (Deadline: 31 January 2021)
- The Future of Environment: New Uses of the Ocean and Energy (Deadline: 28 February 2021)
- Cytotoxicity: Environmental Pollutants and Human Health (Deadline: 28 February 2021)
- Health Effects of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds in the Forest Air (Deadline: 28 February 2021)
- Environmental Health in Latin America and the Caribbean (Deadline: 28 February 2021)
- Endocrine Disruptor Chemicals and Estrogenic Activity in the Context of Health Risk Assessment (Deadline: 28 February 2021)
- Transmission Dynamics of Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (Deadline: 28 February 2021)
- Indoor Air Quality at Home, School, and Work – Challenges and Considerations (Deadline: 28 February 2021)
- The Impact of Environment on the Health and Wellbeing of People (Deadline: 28 February 2021)
- Urban Disaster Resilience and Sustainability (Deadline: 28 February 2021)
- Greenspaces and Health: Measures and Methods (Deadline: 22 March 2021)
- Geographic and Environmental Perspectives on Population Health (Deadline: 31 March 2021)
- Influence of Anthropogenic Activities on Avian Scavengers Conservation (Deadline: 31 March 2021)
- Environmental Physiology and Medicine: Diving and Hyperbaric Exposure (Deadline: 31 March 2021)
- Spatial Analysis of Environmental Health (Deadline: 31 March 2021)
- Aerosol Generations in Working Environments (Deadline: 31 March 2021)
- Ecosystem Health Services and Healthy living to Face Climate Changes (Deadline: 31 March 2021)
- Social Determinants of Health (Deadline: 31 March 2021)
- Environmental Variables Shape Human Microbiota in Health and Disease (Deadline: 31 March 2021)
- Physical Activity and Socioenvironmental Factors in Students (Deadline: 30 April 2021)
- The Role of Social Networks for Sport and Physical Activity (Deadline: 30 April 2021)
- What Works for Addressing Multiple Environmental Health Burdens, Cumulative Environmental Health Risks and Impacts? (Deadline: 30 April 2021)
- Crowd-Sourced Data and Distributed Sensor Networks for Environmental Acoustics Assessments in Urban and Suburban Contexts (Deadline: 30 April 2021)
- COVID-19 and Indoor Air Quality – Impacts and Feedback Cycle (Deadline: 30 April 2021)
- Human Exposure to Emerging Flame Retardants and Alternative Plasticizers (Deadline: 30 April 2021)
- The Ambient Environment and Reproductive Health (Deadline: 1 May 2021)
- Rural and Remote Health Workforce (Deadline: 31 May 2021)
- Environmental and Psychosocial Factors Associated with Physical Activity Behavior and Motor Competence among Children and Adolescents (Deadline: 31 May 2021)
- Sun-Related Behaviors and Skin Health (Deadline: 31 May 2021)
- Global Air Quality and Health (Deadline: 31 May 2021)
- Environmental Noise and Annoyance (Deadline: 31 May 2021)
- Smart and Technology Assisted Methods to Collect Data about Diet (Deadline: 31 May 2021)
- Organic Peracids in Novel Environmental and Public Health Applications (Deadline: 15 June 2021)
- Reducing Health Inequities: Social Epidemiology Insights for Public Health and Social Policy (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Health Effects of Air Pollution and Climate Change (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Responding to COVID-19 from Local, Regional and Global Perspectives: Challenges and Solutions (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Water Reuse Applications and Public Heath (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Advances in the Knowledge of the Relationship between Maternal Exposures to Environmental Risk Factors and Altered Development of the Fetal Brain (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Microbial Biofilms-Implications for Healthcare and Environment (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- Hearing Conservation (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- Effects of Environmental Exposures in Early-Live Populations (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- Food Insecurity: Health Effects and Interventions (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- Health, Wellbeing and Performance in Extreme Environments (Deadline: 31 August 2021)
- Changes in Dietary Protein, Amino Acids, Folate and Other Nutrients or Toxins Regulate Embryonic and Fetal Growth and Development: Implications for Transgenerational Metabolic Disorders in Adults (Deadline: 31 August 2021)
- Multisensory Research and Design for Health and Wellbeing in Architectural Environments (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Natural and Built Outdoor Environments and Children’s Health (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Environmental Exposures and Health –Mechanisms and Their Contingencies in a Developmental Perspective (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Research about Risk Perception in the Environmental Health Domain (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Forest for Human Health and Welfare (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- The Role of Air Pollution during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Waste Management, Air Quality, Pollutant Dispersion, Human Health Impact (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Effects of Prenatal and Postnatal Exposure to Air Pollution and Diet on Lung Health in Children (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
Topical Collections
Following topical collections within this section are currently open for submissions:
