Environmental Health and Disease Control: Towards an Integrated Approach to Sustainable Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Health, Well-Being and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 May 2024) | Viewed by 2044
Special Issue Editors
Interests: AI for system monitoring; data mining; anomaly detection and diagnosis; water quality
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Human well-being and environmental health are widely recognized as being closely linked, which necessitates going beyond traditional public policies and environment protection. The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic reminded us that to survive, humanity must think and act in terms of the interrelationships between human and environmental health. Emerging diseases caused by issues such as climate change, the contamination of animals and water, high exposure to chemicals and pesticides, and antibiotic resistance are major concerns that require an integrated vision of our planet’s health. Recent advances in research have shown that it is possible to utilize new technologies to monitor environments in order to better understand the dynamics of factors that impact human health, and to model them in order to reproduce these dynamics and predict their evolution. This makes it possible to locate their sources and to implement management or control strategies to reduce their impact on both human and environment health.
Yet, research must still be conducted to improve current solutions, especially through the cross-fertilization of results from data- and model-driven approaches for efficient disease control.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to):
- Mathematical modeling of epidemics;
- Impact of mobility on disease spread;
- Wastewater-based approaches;
- Disease control;
- Flood prevention;
- Hydrological systems;
- Water quality;
- Simulation;
- Data-driven methods.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Raymond Houé Ngouna
Prof. Dr. Eric Duviella
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environment health
- one health
- disease control
- mathematical modeling
- optimal control
- simulation
- data mining
- climate change
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