Health

La empresa pública navarra Tracasa Global ha desarrollado para la Agencia Europea de Medioambiente la aplicación Atlas Europeo de Medioambiente y Salud, con la que cualquier persona puede consultar la calidad del aire, el nivel de ruido o el número de espacios verdes, entre otros aspectos, en cualquier zona del continente. Esta herramienta interactiva, la ...

For malaria elimination officer Jerry Maambo, protecting eastern Zambia’s residents from the mosquito-borne disease starts with knowing where people live. Maambo and his team are working to curb rising malaria cases in the Katete district, where cases surged by nearly 50% in 2020 over the previous year. Malaria infects more than 200 million people annually ...

울산시는 31일 오후 2시 시청 제2별관 4층 재난안전상황실에서 ‘방사능재난 대비 시민행동 알림체계(시스템)’ 시연회를 개최한다고 밝혔다. 이 시스템은 대규모 대피가 예상되는 방사능재난 상황 발생 시 시민들의 신속한 대피를 지원하기 위해 구축됐다. 또 흩어져 있는 각종 방사능재난 관련된 정보를 한곳에 모아 시민들이 쉽고 편리하게 사용할 수 있도록 기능을 구현했다. 한국원자력안전기술원 주민보호 지리정보시스템(PGIS), 국가교통정보센터, 울산시 지능형 교통 체계(ITS) ...

Since 2001, the GeoVet conference, held every 3 years, brings together a diverse group of international experts in spatial epidemiology, spatial statistics and Geographical Information Systems applied to animal health, public health and food safety. From September 19ᵗʰ to 21ˢᵗ 2023, in Silvi Marina, Teramo – Italy, experts from different disciplines will share their knowledge ...

The interactive online tool, a first on such a scale for all of Europe, allows users to visualise how the environment around them affects their health and well-being via set of detailed maps. It covers topics like air quality, noise and quietness, green and blue spaces and climate change throughout the member and collaborating countries ...

Incidence of heartworm disease has continued to rise not only in previously known hot spots but also in unexpected locations with previously low heartworm rates, according to the 2022 Heartworm Incidence Map from the American Heartworm Society (AHS). “For many pet owners—and even veterinarians—it can be all too easy to assume that heartworm isn’t common ...

Near the end of the 2019 fall semester, Sonya Gupta was a University of Illinois Chicago undergraduate conducting research on the location and extent of healthcare deserts in the Chicago area and the potential of mobile health clinics to bridge the gap … In the fall of 2020, biological sciences major Ryan Zomorrodi started research ...

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, to launch an internal navigation system to help patients and their caregivers with accurate location. To help it materialise as soon as possible, a five-member team has been formed by Dr M Srinivas, Director, AIIMS. The team, headed by Dr Vivek Tandon from the neurosurgery department, ...

MEDAK, Kahramanmaraş merkezli depremlerin etkilediği illerde sağlık kuruluşları hakkında sahadaki insanların doğru ve güncel olarak bilgilendirilmesi için çalışma başlattı. Bu kapsamda dernek, deprem bölgesinde görev alan tüm yabancılar da dahil resmi ve özel yardım yardım kuruluşlarıyla temasa geçerek, gerek kendi görevlileri gerekse diğer kurumların yetkili kişileri tarafından illerde hizmet veren sabit veya gezici tüm sağlık ...

“Physicians usually use a cognitive assessment, with pen and paper usually, to determine whether a driver is fit to drive. But these assessments are very limited,” said Dr. Sayeh Bayat, an assistant professor in both the University of Calgary’s department of biomedical engineering and geomatics engineering at the Schulich School of Engineering. Bayat recently received ...

An interactive map has been created by South West Water showing sewage releases around the coast. The WaterFit Live map is designed to share information about the region’s bathing beaches, location and performance of storm overflows, as well as the company’s plans to improve water quality. The government is making it mandatory for all water ...

The Association of Mental Health Providers (AMHP) has created the first ever complete picture of mental health service provision across England, via a freely available interactive map, working in partnership with Esri UK. By combining data from the AMHP’s members and other mental health service providers, alongside demographic data, the map helps users understand where ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed a map which highlights how water quality is affected by farming activity in different areas of the country. The map, which was published this month, is divided into sub-basins, which are colour-coded to highlight different issues related to farming activity. A single sub-basin may be colour-coded with different ...

En France, l’accessibilité aux soins et les difficultés qu’elle présente pour les citoyens sont tous les jours un peu plus au centre du débat public … Les principales mesures des difficultés d’accès aux soins utilisées en France reposent essentiellement sur des indicateurs de densité médicale et de temps d’accès au professionnel de santé le plus ...

A plataforma “OFF!Cast Previsão de Mosquitos” já está no ar e mostra quais as chances de uma região no país ter maior ou menor presença de mosquitos. A ideia é prevenir a proliferação desses vetores, que trazem doenças como dengue, febre amarela, zika, malária e chikungunya. A OFF!Cast Previsão de Mosquitos é resultado de uma ...

Ankara Üniversitesi (AÜ) bünyesinde, nadir hastalıklara yönelik ilaç, tanı kiti ve takipte kullanılabilecek yenilikçi yöntemler geliştirilmesi, biyobanka, hastalıklar açısından coğrafi haritanın oluşturulması ve tedavi modellerinin tanımlanması için Nadir Hastalıklar Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi kuruldu. Merkezin başkanı ve AÜ Tıp Fakültesi Öğretim Üyesi Prof. Dr. Fatma Tuba Eminoğlu, AA muhabirine yaptığı açıklamada, nadir hastalıkların 2 binde ...

NGIS has collaborated with a range of organisations on the Australian Environmental Health (AusEnHealth) Strategic Planning Digital Twin project. The project aims to understand the landscape of environmental health data collection around the country. By 2030, the direct damage of costs to health is expected to be between $3 billion and $6 billion per year, ...

“New Jersey has many naturally occurring arsenic sources, which can elevate the arsenic concentration in groundwater,” said Subhasis Giri, an assistant research professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources and lead author of the study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. “Our work contributes to the understanding of this ...

Não é novidade que impactos negativos no meio ambiente são capazes de gerar inúmeras consequências para o mundo e para a sociedade. No entanto, para além das mudanças climáticas, e os riscos econômicos ocasionados pela poluição, pesquisadores da Escola de Políticas Públicas e Governo da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV EPPG), em Brasília, investigam o impacto ...

A new Environmental Working Group geospatial analysis finds over 2 percent of North Carolina’s 7,352 swine and poultry factory farms are in or just outside floodplains. When these farms flood, they can contaminate water with bacteria and other health hazards. “The 156 factory farms we found in and near North Carolina’s floodplains are at a ...

At Rochester Institute of Technology and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a team of researchers is studying how to identify and bridge gaps in emergency management resources and services for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community. Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation Civic Innovation Challenge, the project is bringing together academic ...

Navigating an unfamiliar place is uniquely challenging for people with disabilities. People with blindness, deafblindness, visual impairment or low vision, as well as those who use wheelchairs, can travel more independently in urban areas with the aid of effective wayfinding technology. A new report from the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC) explores how ...

USC’s Dima M. Qato spent more than a decade working as a community pharmacist and public health advocate in underserved refugee and immigrant communities in Chicago. Through her experiences and public health training, Qato — the daughter of a pharmacist and now an associate professor at the USC School of Pharmacy — has come to ...

Sidewalks, single-lane roads and street signs could all be part of the path to a community’s mental and physical health, for better or worse, according to a new University of Maryland-led study. The research analyzed Google Street View images of diverse regions of the United States to correlate elements of the built environment to health ...

New autism diagnoses tend to be clustered within specific NHS service regions, suggesting that where an individual lives may influence whether they receive an autism diagnosis and access to special education needs support. The latest findings, from researchers from the University of Cambridge in collaboration with researchers from the London School of Economics and Political ...

Access to civic and social organizations, cultural centers such as museums and art galleries, and recreation centers may help protect against cognitive decline as a person ages, a new study suggests. A new interactive map allows you to plug in your address and assess how your neighborhood could support healthy cognitive aging, a theory the ...

Pensando em dar voz a pessoas com algum tipo de deficiência visual e sensibilizar a sociedade sobre sua complexa relação com o espaço público urbano, a plataforma BlindWiki, criada pelo artista espanhol Antoni Abad, chega ao Brasil para gerar novas experiências a esse público. No jardim de esculturas do MAM, no Memorial da América Latina ...

The authors say this study provides the first evidence supporting the hypothesis that residential pesticide exposure from agricultural use is associated with an increased risk of thyroid cancer. The authors performed a case-controlled study using thyroid cancer cases from the California Cancer Registry (1999-2012) and controls sampled in a population-based manner. Study participants were diagnosed ...

Getting children closer to green spaces as they grow up could improve their lung health, according to a study published today (Wednesday) in the European Respiratory Journal. The research found that children tended to have better lung function if their exposure to vegetation close to their homes increased in the first ten years of life. ...