
The 1st International Electronic Conference on Environmental Health Sciences
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Environmental Health Sciences series
15 Nov–7 Dec 2018
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- A. Adolescent Health
- B. Children’s Environmental Health
- C. Global Environment
- D. Registry Epidemiology for Public Health Purposes
- E. Air Pollution
- F. Climate Change and Health
- G. Environmental Exposure and Health
- H. Industrial and Occupational Health
- I. Risk Assessment and Management of Environmental Hazards
- J. Posters
- Event Details
Welcome from the Chair
15 November – 7 December 2018
Dear Colleagues,
It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the 1st International Electronic Conference on Environmental Health Sciences.
Today, longitudinal studies are extensively performed, especially in Arctic countries. A considerable number of reports and articles related to epidemiological studies conducted in the arctic regions have appeared in last year Special Issues of IJERPH. For both ethical and scientific reasons, many longitudinal studies have a cohort design, with a long-term follow up of the individuals concerned that, often, are mothers and their children, since the most vulnerable period in human life is before birth and in early childhood. Various epidemiological studies in the circumpolar area have shown associations between contaminants and different health outcomes. The risk assessment of the effects of environmental pollutants is essential for the overall protection of health of the current and next generations. Different methods of risk assessment are available, however it is not clearly established how to translate the contaminant concentrations measured in the blood of the monitored individuals to information useful for risk characterization, thus linking the likelihood that specific adverse health effects will occur to defined concentration ranges of contaminants. In addition, risk assessments are complicated by several factors, such as climate changes and the fluctuations of contaminant exposure levels over long periods. This makes it necessary to continuously monitor environmental pollution and the related potential health effects. The information gathered from risk assessment studies is also important for policy makers to identify preventive measures to be adopted on both a population level and an individual level. The precautionary principle should be the basis of all environmental health science approaches based on newly acquired knowledge, including risk assessments and the definition of strategies to reduce contaminant exposure to humans. This conference creates a unique opportunity to discuss any subject related to environment and health issues. The Chair and the scientific committee heartily welcome you and look forward to this first electronic conference on environmental health sciences.
Conference Chair
Professor of global health CV Visiting professor, Department of Public Health, University of Pretoria, South Africa (2013--) Ongoing studies: PI of the Breathe study, supported by Globvac. Clinical trial of azithromycin treatment of lung complications in HIV-positive children and adolescents in Malawi and Zimbabwe. |
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E-conferences, virtually anywhere. The 1st International Electronic Conference on Environmental Health Sciences
The 1st International Electronic Conference on Environmental Health Sciences (IECEHS 2018) will be held from 15 November to 7 December 2018 in the internet environment. This event will solely be an online proceeding which allows the participation from all over the world with no concerns of travel and related expenditures, while at the same time making rapid and direct exchanges about the latest research findings and novel ideas in Environmental Health Sciences. All proceedings will be held online at https://iecehs-1.sciforum.net/.
Through this event, we aim to cover the following topics:
- Adolescent Health
- Children’s Environmental Health
- Global Environment
- Registry Epidemiology for Public Health Purposes
- Air Pollution
- Climate Change and Health
- Environmental Exposure and Health
- Industrial and Occupational Health
- Risk Assessment and Management of Environmental Hazards
The conference will be completely free of charge - both to attend, and for scholars to upload and present their latest work on the conference platform. There will also be a possibility to submit selected papers to the e-conference related Special Issue of the journal IJERPH (ISSN 1660-4601; Impact Factor: 2.101 (2016)), with a 20% discount on the APC. IECEHS-2018 offers you the opportunity to participate in this international, scholarly conference without the concerns and expense of traveling - all you need is access to the Internet. We would like to invite you to "attend" this conference by presenting your latest work.
Abstracts (in English) should be submitted by 22 September 2018 online at https://www.sciforum.net/login. For accepted abstracts, the full paper can be submitted by 20 October 2018. The conference itself will be held 15 November to 7 December 2018.
We hope you will be able to join this exciting event and support us in making it a success. IECEHS-2018 is organized and sponsored by MDPI, a scholarly open access publisher based in Basel, Switzerland.
Paper Submission Guidelines
For information about the submission procedure and preparation of a full presentation, please refer to the "Instructions for Authors".
Conference Chairs

Professor of global health, NTNU The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, MD, PhD, Specialist Obstetrics and Gynecology
Visiting professor, Department of Public Health, University of Pretoria, South Africa (2013--) Visiting professor, OB/GYN Department, College of Medicine, University of Malawi (2013-) Key National Expert, Sustainable Development Working Group, Arctic Council (2010--) President of the Norwegian Forum for Global Health Research (2009-- 2011) Chair of AMAP Human Health Assessment Group (2009 --). President, International Union of Circumpolar Health (2012-2015).
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Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University,
New Orleans LA, USA
the impact of toxic chemicals on human health and the environment: accumulation in food chain organisms and degradation; water and sanitation and effects of agricultural pesticides in developing nations
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Pesticide Biochemistry and Environmental Toxicology, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagaziz University, Egypt
toxicity and biotransformation of agrochemicals; molecular diagnosis of pesticides and biocontrol agents toxicity and resistance; health and environmental risk assessment of pesticides; applications of biotechnology in pest control
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Department of Occupational Safety and Health, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
occupational health; occupational epidemiology; health risk assessment; physical hazards assessment
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School of Population Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
environmental physics; air pollution modelling; air pollution exposure; the impact of climate on health; environmental noise
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Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
health risks of and responses to global change; particularly climate change
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Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Graduate School of Public Health, St. Luke's International University, Tokyo
statistics; epidemiology; health inequality; quantitative health system assessment; statistical methods in health services research
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Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, 1 Matsunosato, Tsukuba, Japan
forest therapy; shinrin-yoku; nature and medicine; preventive medicine; forest landscape; phytoncide; five sense stimulus
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Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Regional Health Service-Italy, Rome, Italy
environmental epidemiology; climate change; extreme weather events and health; short and long term effect of air pollution; environmental exposure and cancer; public health
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Institute of Environmental Health, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
environmental and occupational epidemiology; environmental health impact assessment
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Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
adsorption of inorganic/organic pollutants using low-cost adsorbents; activated carbon and nanocomposite materials
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School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
bladder health; women's health; aging; behavior and environment
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School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China; JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; General Practice and Primary Care, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
primary health care; multimorbidity; cardiovascular diseases
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Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481, USA
adolescent development; sexual risk and prevention; family sexuality communication; teen-family relationships; evaluation of preventive programs; qualitative and mixed-methods approaches
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arja.rau[email protected]

School of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
climate change and population health; adaptation; vulnerability; infectious disease; disaster response; public health policy and health services
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School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
pollen and health outcomes; osteoporosis and exposure to solar radiation; risk factors for the consumption of pesticides
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Sessions
A. Adolescent HealthB. Children’s Environmental Health
C. Global Environment
D. Registry Epidemiology for Public Health Purposes
E. Air Pollution
F. Climate Change and Health
G. Environmental Exposure and Health
H. Industrial and Occupational Health
I. Risk Assessment and Management of Environmental Hazards
J. Posters
Instructions for Authors
Submissions should be done by the authors online by registering with www.sciforum.net, and using the "Submit New Submission" function once logged into system.
- Scholars interested in participating with the conference can submit their abstract (about 200-300 words covering the areas of manuscripts for the proceedings issue) online on this website until 22 September 2018.
- The Conference Committee will pre-evaluate, based on the submitted abstract, whether a contribution from the authors of the abstract will be welcome for the 1st International Electronic Conference on Environmental Health Sciences. All authors will be notified by 28 September 2018 about the acceptance of their abstract.
- If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author is asked to submit his/her manuscript, optionally along with a PowerPoint and/or video presentation of his/her paper (only PDF), until the submission deadline of 20 October 2018.
- The manuscripts and presentations will be available on https://sciforum.net/conference/IECEHS-1 for discussion and rating during the time of the conference 15 November-7 December 2018 and will be published in Journal Proceedings.
- The Open Access Journal IJERPH will publish a Special Issue of the conference proceedings papers and accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference itself. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. After the conference, the Conference Committee will recommend manuscripts that may be included for publication in this Special Issue of the journal IJERPH (the submission to the journal is independent from the conference proceedings and will follow the usual process of the journal, including peer-review, APC, etc.).
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must have the following organization:
- Title
- Full author names
- Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results and Discussion
- Conclusions
- (Acknowledgements)
- References
Manuscripts should be prepared in MS Word or any other word processor and should be converted to the PDF format before submission. The publication format will be PDF. The manuscript should count at least 3 pages (incl. figures, tables and references). There is no page limit on the length, although authors are asked to keep their papers as concise as possible.
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the Manuscript. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly in the website using Sciforum.net's proprietary slides viewer. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results can be presented. Slides should be converted to the PDF format before submission so that our process can easily and automatically convert them for online displaying.
Besides their active participation within the forum, authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. If you are interested in submitting, please contact the conference organizer at [email protected] to get to know more about the procedure. This is an unique way of presenting your paper and discuss it with peers from all over the world. Make a difference and join us for this project!
Authors that wish to present a poster only, i.e. without proceedings paper, can do so in section J. - Posters of this conference. Posters will be available on this conference website during and after the event. Like papers presented on the conference, participants will be able to ask questions and make comments about the posters. Posters that are submitted without paper will not be included in the proceedings of the conference.
Submission: Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.sciforum.net/login by registering and logging in to this website.
Accepted File Formats
- MS Word: Manuscript prepared in MS Word must be converted into a single file before submission. When preparing manuscripts in MS Word, the Electronic Conference on Materials Science Microsoft Word template file (see download below) must be used. Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame which can superimpose the text and make the layout very difficult.
- Electronic Conference on Environmental Health Sciences MS Word Template File
- References: References must be numbered in order of appearance in the text (including tables and legends) and listed individually at the end of the manuscript. We recommend preparing the references with a bibliography software package, such as EndNote, ReferenceManager or Zotero to avoid typing mistakes and duplicated references. Citations and References in Supplementary files are permitted provided that they also appear in the main text and in the reference list. In the text, reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before the punctuation; for example [1], [1–3] or [1,3]. For embedded citations in the text with pagination, use both parentheses and brackets to indicate the reference number and page numbers; for example [5] (p. 10). or [6] (pp. 101–105). The Reference list should include the full title as recommended by the ACS style guide. The style file for endnote, MDPI.ens, can be found at https://endnote.com/downloads/style/mdpi
- Author List and Affiliations: Authors' full first and last names must be provided. The initials of any middle names can be added. The PubMed/MEDLINE standard format is used for affiliations: complete address information including city, zip code, state/province, country, and all email addresses. At least one author should be designated as corresponding author, and his or her email address and other details should be included at the end of the affiliation section. Please read the criteria to qualify for authorship.
- Figures, Schemes and Tables: All figure files should be separately uploaded during submission. Figures and schemes must be provided at a sufficiently high resolution (minimum 1000 pixels width/height, or a resolution of 300 dpi or higher). All Figure file formats are accepted. However, TIFF, JPEG, EPS and PDF files are preferred. Materials can publish multimedia files in articles or as supplementary materials. Please get in touch with the Editorial office for further information. All Figures, Schemes and Tables should also be inserted into the main text close to their first citation and must be numbered following their number of appearance (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, Table 1, etc.). All Figures, Schemes and Tables should have a short explanatory title and a caption. All table columns should have an explanatory heading. To facilitate the copy-editing of larger tables, smaller fonts may be used, but in no less than 8 pt. in size. Authors should use the Table option of Microsoft Word to create tables. For multi-panel figures, the file must contain all data in one file. For tips on creating multi-panel figures, please read the helpful advice provided by L2 Molecule. Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color (RGB at 8-bit per channel). Full color graphics will be published free of charge.
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Authors wishing to publish their papers are asked to abide to the following rules:
- Any facts that might be perceived as a possible conflict of interest of the author(s) must be disclosed in the paper prior to submission.
- Authors should accurately present their research findings and include an objective discussion of the significance of their findings.
- Data and methods used in the research need to be presented in sufficient detail in the paper, so that other researchers can replicate the work.
- Raw data should preferably be publicly deposited by the authors before submission of their manuscript. Authors need to at least have the raw data readily available for presentation to the referees and the editors of the journal, if requested. Authors need to ensure appropriate measures are taken so that raw data is retained in full for a reasonable time after publication.
- Simultaneous submission of manuscripts to more than one journal is not tolerated.
- Republishing content that is not novel is not tolerated (for example, an English translation of a paper that is already published in another language will not be accepted).
- If errors and inaccuracies are found by the authors after publication of their paper, they need to be promptly communicated to the editors of this journal so that appropriate actions can be taken. Please refer to our policy regarding publication of publishing addenda and corrections.
- Your manuscript should not contain any information that has already been published. If you include already published figures or images, please obtain the necessary permission from the copyright holder to publish under the CC-BY license.
- Plagiarism, data fabrication and image manipulation are not tolerated.
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List of accepted submissions (12)
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sciforum-021123 | Mediterranean Built Environment and Weather as Modulator Factors on Physical Activity: Cross-Sectional Study | , , , , , , , | N/A |
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Background: When promoting physical activity practice, it is important to consider the plausible environmental determinants that may affect this practice. We aimed to explore the impact of objectively measured Public Open Spaces (POS) on objectively measured and self-reported physical activity and the influence of weather on this association, in a Mediterranean sample of senior adults with overweight or obesity and the metabolic syndrome. Method: Cross-sectional analyses based on 218 PREDIMED-Plus trial participants aged 55-75 years, from Palma de Mallorca (Spain). Indicators of access to POS were assessed in 1·0 km sausage network walkable buffer around each participant’s residence address using geographic information systems. Mean daily minutes of self-reported leisure-time brisk walking, and accelerometer measured moderate-to-vigorous physical activity at least in 10 min bouts were measured. In order investigate the association between access to POS and physical activity, generalized additive models with gaussian link function were used. Results: Better access to POS was no statistically significant associated with self-reported leisure-time brisk walking. Only a positive significant association was observed between distance of healthy routes contained or intersected by buffer and OB-MVPA. This association was only evident on non-rainy days. Conclusions: In this elderly population living in a Mediterranean city, only healthy routes contained or intersected by 1 km sausage network walkable buffer influenced on accelerometer measured MVPA 10 minutes bouts and rainy conditions during the accelerometer wear period did appear to be an important factor related to active ageing. |
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sciforum-021914 | Public Health Messages Associated with the Low Exposure Category of the UV Index Need Reconsideration | , , , , |
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Overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation is the main modifiable risk factor for skin cancer. The Global Solar Ultraviolet Index (UVI) was introduced as a tool to visualize the intensity of UV radiation on a certain day which should enable and encourage people to take appropriate protective measures. The exposure category ‘low’ of the UVI, including values from 0 to 2, was linked to the health message ‘No protection required’ by the World Health Organization and collaborating centres. However, published evidence corroborating this advice is scarce. Therefore, we analysed ambient erythemal irradiance data of 14,431 daily UVI time series of low UVI days. Data were gathered at nine stations of the German solar UV monitoring network – covering all major climate areas in Germany – in the years 2007 - 2016. We compared ambient erythemal doses calculated for various time intervals with average minimal erythemal doses (MEDs) of the Caucasian Fitzpatrick skin phototypes I-IV to assess the potential for skin damage arising from sun exposure on days with low UVI values. The most common months for the occurrence of days with low UVI values in our dataset were January and December, February and November, and March and October for UVI 0, 1 and 2, respectively. Our results indicate that on days with a UVI value of 0, risk of deterministic radiation injury (solar erythema) is negligible. Conversely, the above-mentioned health message appears misleading when melano-compromised individuals spend several hours outdoors on days with a UVI value of 2, as median doses exceed the MEDs of Fitzpatrick skin types I and II after an exposure duration of only 2h around solar noon. Under very rare specific circumstances, MEDs of those two most sensitive skin types can also be exceeded even on days with UVI 1. Hence, two aspects of current public health messages may need reconsideration: on the one hand, the health message related to an ‘innocuous level’ of the UVI and, on the other hand, a possible adaption of UVI-related health messages to different skin types. |
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sciforum-021683 | Noise Annoyance in Urban Life: the Citizen as a Key Point of the Directives | , , , | N/A |
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The improvement of the quality of life in the framework of the smart-city paradigm cannot be limited to measuring objective environmental factors but should also consider the assessment of the citizens’ health. Road traffic noise has been widely studied in terms of citizens’ annoyance and its impact on health, but other types of urban noise are usually out of those analysis. Each node of a wireless acoustic sensor network can pick up street noise, and can even record specific sounds that reach a higher equivalent level for study, but the most important thing for administration is whether certain types of noise annoy the citizen. In this work, we present the analysis and the selection of several audio samples collected by a wireless acoustic sensor network in an urban environment in order to conduct perceptive tests by several users. This a first approximation to the evaluation of the real perception of citizens’ annoyance of the urban noise collected by a low-cost wireless acoustic sensor network. |
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sciforum-021366 | Acute Effects of Air Pollution and Noise from Road Traffic in A Panel of Young Healthy Subjects | , , , , , |
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Twenty-four healthy students walked at least 4 times for one hour under each of the 4 settings: By a busy road, by a busy road wearing ear plugs, in a park, in a park but exposed to traffic noise (65 dB) through speakers. Particles (PM2.5, particle number) and noise levels were measured throughout each walk. Lung function and exhaled NO were measured before, immediately, one hour, and approximately 24 hours after each walk. Blood pressure and heart rate variability were measured every 15 minutes during each walk. Air pollution levels reduced lung function levels. Noise levels reduced systolic blood pressure and heart-rate variability. |
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sciforum-021530 | Risk Assessment of Chemical Contaminants Ingestion with Nutrition of Children Aged 3–6 Years Old from the City of Kazan | , , , | N/A |
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The analysis of the such chemicalsas cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), arsenic (As), mercury (Hg) intake with the diet of children aged 3-6 years oldfrom the city of Kazan for periods (2007-2010 and 2011-2014) was carried out. The study of actual child nutrition was performed by questionnaire andtime-weight methods. The calculation of daily doses was made with the account of regional exposure factors at the 95thperc level. The non-carcinogenic risk from the exposure to methylmercury with basic food groupsat the level of the 95th perc made 3.89 and 3.33 for both periods, 10.67– for arsenic in the first period, being unacceptable (HQ >1). In 2007-2010, the central nervous system (CNS), the hormone system (HS), the immune system (IS), and the development (HI = 15.75, 12.87, 11.72 and 4.03) were exposed to the highest toxic effect. An in 2011-2014, the CNS and the development (HI = 4.02 and 3.98) were. The risk of developing non-carcinogeni ceffects for these systems (64% - 91 %) was mainly due to contamination of foods with As for the first period, and– to the intake of Pb (46 % - 57%) for the second period. The value of the total individual carcinogenic risk (ICRCd, Pb, As), for the second period (1.69Е-05) corresponds to maximum allowable level. In 2007-2010, the total ICRmade 2.45Е-04, which is an unacceptable level for the population. The major contribution to the total ICR due to the intake of contaminated foods was made by As –92.55 % in the first period, and by Cd – 79.93 % in the second period. The peculiarities of the child body (the amount of chemicals ingested per kilogram of the body weight is higher in children than in adults), determine the potential risk and are responsible for high vulnerability on exposure to chemicals and development of adverse effects. |
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Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele
Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33146, USA
Prof. Wenjie Sun
School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Tulane University, 1440 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
A. Adolescent Health
Dear Colleagues,
The “Adolescent Health” section will focus on individual and contextual factors that shape adolescent health outcomes. Teens’ social contexts including family, peers, schools, and neighborhoods, as well as exposure to social media, can affect teens’ health in positive and negative ways. In addition, systemic experiences related to teens’ race and ethnicity, gender, social class, and sexual orientation or identity influence their health outcomes, such as experiences of stereotyping or discrimination. We invite papers focused on adolescent health and the factors that shape it, particularly those addressing reproductive health, such as teen pregnancy and parenting. Quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods papers are welcome.
Kind regards,
Dr. Jennifer M. Grossman
Key words
- Adolescent health
- Social contexts
- Family relationships
- Reproductive health
- Teen pregnancy
- Teen parenting
- Social media
Session Chair
Dr. Jennifer M. Grossman, Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481, USA
B. Children’s Environmental Health
Dear Colleagues,
This session on Children’s Environmental Health will focus on the latest research into the ways in which the impact of the urban environment on children’s health and well-being are distinct from the impact on adults. This may be because of the different activities in which children participate, the distinct microenvironments in which they spend their time, or the personal behavior choices that they or their parents make on their behalf. It may also be due to their different susceptibility to environmental stressors at their particular stage of physical development. This session is expected to be multidisciplinary, bringing together both qualitative and quantitative experts in areas including but not limited to environmental science, population health, transport engineering and urban design. It is expected that the knowledge gained will have policy implications and will help towards ensuring that the needs of children are captured in such policy.
Best regards,
Assoc. Prof. Kim N. Dirks
Keywords
- Children
- Urban living
- Transport/travel
- Active transport
- Air pollution exposure
- Water quality
- Housing
- Schools
- Playgrounds
- Environmental exposure
- Toxins
- Outdoor environment
- Indoor environment
- Behaviour
- Recreation
Session Chair
Dr. Kim Natasha Dirks, School of Population Health Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand
C. Global Environment
Dear Colleagues,
Evidence of the harm to health and well-being from widespread environmental degradation and global climate change is growing. The poorest people on the planet tend to suffer most from the health effects of exposure to environmental hazards like air pollution and impure water. In turn, disease and disability related to polluted environments slows and blocks economic development. In this section, we would like to draw attention to global research on environmental exposure, transcending national boundaries, with the goal of improving health for all people by reducing the environmental exposure that leads to avoidable disease, disability and death.
Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Arja Rautio
Session Chair
Prof. Dr. Arja Rautio, University of Oulu, Pentti Kaiteran katu 1, 90014 Oulu, Finland
D. Registry Epidemiology for Public Health Purposes
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental health is one of the world's biggest public health concerns. The marked increase in the use of public health registries holds enormous potential to address a wide range of health care issues that have arisen in recent years across the globe. Registries can yield valuable information that helps people learn more about a certain condition, hazard, or adverse event, particularly when health consequences are uncertain over time or will probably take years to develop. As a powerful tool and a cost-efficient data-collection instrument, a well-designed registry helps one assess potential health outcomes and contributes to the generation of research hypotheses.
Both exposure-based registries and disease-based registries have become increasingly popular for data collection and follow-up in the field of environmental health research with notable scientific inferences. An increasing number of epidemiologic studies have started to use registries to measure associations between exposures and health outcomes, which have led to substantially improved generalisability of research findings to a broader population.
In this section, we welcome worldwide submissions on a variety of topics of interest including (but not limited to) experiences and lessons of creating health registries, novel epidemiological findings on exposure–health outcome issues, advances in statistical techniques for data analysis, risk assessments and decision support, and other types of registry-based research efforts that provide new information to add to the existing scientific knowledge.
Best regards
Prof. Harry H.X. Wang
Keywords
- Health Registry
- Epidemiology
- Health Outcomes
Session Chair
Dr. Harry H.X. Wang, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong General Practice and Primary Care, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Univ
E. Air Pollution
Dear Colleagues,
The health effects of air pollution are well established and thoroughly studied. Nevertheless, there still remain some issues that require closer examination in epidemiological studies, as outlined below. In any given setting, acute short-term exposures are correlated with long-term chronic exposures typical for a location. Therefore, it is still a challenge to disentangle the acute and eventually reversible health effects from the chronic and often irreversible effects of air pollution. Epidemiological studies usually rely on exposure data based on a small list of indicator pollutants. With technological changes, the composition of a pollution mixture will likely be refined and change, and it is therefore necessary to constantly re-evaluate the relevance of each indicator pollutant to the health effects of different pollution mixtures. Epidemiological studies examining the biological interaction between air pollution and other environmental or social stressors are scarce. As multiple exposures are typical in the real world, we must know how the combination of multiple stressors does indeed affect health. I am looking forward to your input and hope that it will boost the research on air pollution and health.
Kind regards,
Dr. Hanns Moshammer
Keywords
• Air pollution,
• Acute versus chronic effects,
• Indicator pollutants,
• Source-specific health effects,
• Combination of exposures,
• Interaction effects
Session Chair
Dr. Hanns Moshammer, Institute of Environmental Health, Center for Public Health Medical University of Vienna Vienna, Austria https://zph.meduniwien.ac.at/umwelthygiene/allgemeine-informationen/mitarbeiterinnen/hanns-moshammer/
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F. Climate Change and Health
Dear Colleagues,
It is my great honor and pleasure to welcome you to the E-Conference on Climate Change and Health. It aims to promote research collaborations and to interpret scientific research findings for the health practice and services community.
Climate change has had, and will continue to have a significant impact on population health. Negative impacts are particularly severe among vulnerable populations, such as the elderly, patients with existing chronic diseases, outdoor workers, residents in rural and remote areas, and people with lower socioeconomic status, among others. It is important for scientists from different disciplines to work collaboratively to assess health risk, explore risk factors and develop effective adaptation strategies, and, more importantly, to translate the research outcomes into public health and clinical practice. This conference will therefore provide a unique opportunity for scientists from diverse areas such as climatology, meteorology, public health policy, environmental health, epidemiology, occupational health and safety, infectious disease control and prevention, anthropology, health sociology, and clinical medicine, to share their knowledge, exchange their updated research findings, etc. Furthermore, the conference will also provide a platform for scientists and policy-makers to discuss the potential collaborations.
The E-Conference will cover key areas of climate change and health, including:
- Environmental Health
- Occupational Health and Safety
- Time-series data Analysis Approaches
- Climate change, Infectious disease control and prevention,
- Climate change adaptation
- Community resilience
- Climate change and health service policy
We are looking forward to receiving your contributions to this unique event!
Best Regards,
Professor Peng Bi, MBBS PhD
Session Chair
Prof. Dr. Peng Bi, School of Public Health The University of Adelaide Adelaide, SA 5005 Australia
G. Environmental Exposure and Health
Dear Colleagues,
The “Environmental Exposures and Health” session will focus on the two components of how exposure to the environment influences human health and wellbeing, examining both the negative and positive effects of environmental exposure. Exposures may either be acute or chronic, and health outcomes distal or proximal. The session will bring together experts in the area and allow comparison of common methodological approaches for examining exposures to environmental factors and how these influence the prevalence, incidence, and geographic distribution of health outcomes. Additionally, methods and techniques for sharing findings via policy, citizen science, and media will be examined.
Kind regards,
Dr. Nicholas Osborne
Keywords
- Environmental exposures
- chronic exposure, greenspace
- low level exposure
- bluespace
- metals
- pesticide
- radiation
- food
- acute exposure
- noise
- light
- phthalates
- endocrine disruptors
- air pollution
- built environment
- exposome
- wellbeing
- natural toxins
Session Chair
Dr. Nicholas Osborne, School of Public Health and Community Medicine University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia Website: https://sphcm.med.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-nicholas-osborne
H. Industrial and Occupational Health
Dear Colleagues,
This session on Industrial and Occupational Health is intended to collect the latest papers related to the recognition and prevention of physical, chemical, biological, ergonomic and psychosocial hazards in the workplace. We anticipate to gather experts from different researching fields to share their experiences and concerns about the emerging risks in daily working environments. Traditional and new approaches to assessing potential risks will be present as an effort towards promoting the incorporation of these approaches into field practice, and also help academia, governments and industries to gain insight into these potential hazards in order to adopt adequate measures to reduce the risks.
Best regards,
Prof. Ta-Yuan Chang
Keywords:
- Industrial Health
- Occupational Health
- Hazard Identification
- Exposure Assessment
- Risk Assessment
- Prevention
Session Chair
Prof. Dr. Ta-Yuan Chang, Department of Occupational Safety and Health, College of Public Health, China Medical University No. 91, Hsueh-Shih Road, Taichung 40402, Taiwan
I. Risk Assessment and Management of Environmental Hazards
Dear Colleagues,
This session on risk assessment and the management of environmental hazards intends to bring together experts from different research areas to discuss the potential impact of chemical, physical, microbiological or psychosocial hazards on a specified human population or ecological system under a specific set of conditions and for a certain time frame. There is an awareness of risk to the environment, along with a growing concern for the continuing potential damage caused by hazards. Moreover, besides physical protection, a synthesis of anti-hazard measures is being considered, including land use management, and better planning for response and recovery and emergency warnings. The challenge to researchers within the hazards community is to use their skill to adopt a wider perspective, involving global change for a safer and more sustainable environment. Risk assessment and risk management are used to define broadly the activities of identifying and quantifying risk due to environmental agents and processes, and the actions taken to prevent or minimize these risks. Thus, it has been recognized that an integrated approach to environmental hazards needs to be attempted using common methodologies, such as risk analysis, which involves quantitative and qualitative risk assessment and risk management. Risk assessment is intended to provide complete information to risk managers, specifically policymakers, and regulators in order to take the best possible decisions. However, there is a lack of such information, which constitutes a serious deficiency in the reduction of environmental hazards. This session covers a series of important topics that help to emphasize the importance of the analysis and management of risk to planners and researchers around the world. It is concerned with all aspects of risk management and hazard mitigation, which are associated with both natural and anthropogenic hazards.
Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Mohamed-Bassem A. Ashour
Keywords:
- Risk analysis, assessment, and management.
- Early warning and vulnerability.
- Temporal and spatial aspects of risk.
- Chemical pollutants and contaminants: in air, water, soil, and food.
- Pathogenic microbiological contaminants in food and water.
- Risk assessment associated with genetically modified organisms.
- Risk assessment associated with nanotechnology.
- Waste management.
- Risk assessment and life style.
- Radiation sources.
- Electromagnetic fields.
- Climate and climate change.
- Natural disasters.
- Multi-hazard risk assessment and decision making.
- Data collection and analysis.
- Mathematical models in risk extrapolation.
- Communication of risk.
- Case studies.
Session Chair
Prof. Dr. Mohamed-Bassem A. Ashour, Pesticide Biochemistry and Environmental Toxicology, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagaziz University, Egypt
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