Epidemiology and Public Health Issues Related to Waters

Dear Colleagues,

Water–health interconnections involve a complex network of elements, which ultimately results in disease. Main components in this process include population susceptibility, environmental exposure, ecological frameworks involving animals, plants, microbial communities, and more and more frequently anthropic pollution and contaminants of emerging concern. Epidemiology represents the method to describe, measure, or prove associations between risk factors and human health. Public health represents the scientific frame and instrument for implementing surveillance and preventive actions. This Special Issue welcomes solid studies aimed at unraveling or suggesting links between water and disease and water and risk factors based on studies on human populations and/or within a wider One Health context, including case reports, case series, ecological studies, and case-control or cohort studies. Hypotheses and perspectives supported by strong epidemiological data can be considered, too. In addition, a “positive” approach based on reporting beneficial actions of water on health or prevention or health promotion will be considered, including medicinal or SPA thermal water applications or the impact of sport and adapted physical activities in water. Pure experimental or basic science or technology studies—e.g., chemistry, physics, biology, engineering innovations, clinical applications, methodos comparisons or validations—are not covered in this Special Issue, unless as part of or support to a specific and consistent epidemiological and/or public health study involving the water–health link.

Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Romano Spica
Guest Editor

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