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ReviewFrontiers in public health2024

A new environmental public health practice to manage current and future global health challenges through education, training, and capacity building.

Giovanni S Leonardi, Ariana Zeka, Matthew Ashworth, Catherine Bouland, Helen Crabbe, Raquel Duarte-Davidson, Ruth Ann Etzel, Nia Giuashvili, Özden Gökdemir, Wojciech Hanke and 12 more

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Review in Frontiers in public health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Air Pollution and Brain Tumors in Children. A Systematic Review.Current environmental health reports · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

22 authors.

Giovanni S LeonardiUKHSA, London, United Kingdom.
Ariana ZekaUKHSA, London, United Kingdom.
Matthew AshworthInstitute of Environmental Science and Research Limited (ESR), Upper Hutt, New Zealand.
Catherine BoulandUniversité Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)-Ecole de Santé Publique, Brussels, Belgium.
Helen CrabbeUKHSA, London, United Kingdom.
Raquel Duarte-DavidsonUKHSA, London, United Kingdom.
Ruth Ann EtzelMilken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States.
Nia GiuashviliNational Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tblisi, Georgia.
Özden GökdemirFaculty of Medicine, Izmir University of Economics, İzmir, Türkiye.
Wojciech HankeNofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland.
Peter van den HazelInternational Network on Children's Health, Environment and Safety (INCHES), Ellecom, Netherlands.
Paul JagalsWHO Collaborating Centre for Children's Health and Environment, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Ejaz Ahmad KhanHealth Services Academy, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Piedad Martin-OlmedoAndalusian School of Public Health, Granada, Spain.
Joseph PettIHR Strengthening Project, UKHSA, Bangkok, Thailand.
Ekaterine RuadzeNational Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tblisi, Georgia.
Maria Grazia SantamariaASL Foggia, Foggia, Italy.
Jan C SemenzaDepartment of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Cecilia SorensenGlobal Consortium on Climate and Health Education at Columbia University, New York, NY, United States.
Sotiris VardoulakisHEAL Global Research Centre, Health Research Institute, University of Canberra, Bruce, ACT, Australia.
Fuyuen YipUS-CDC, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Paolo LauriolaInternational Society Doctors for the Environment (ISDE), Rete Italiana Medici Sentinella per l'Ambiente (RIMSA), Arezzo, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Unsustainable globalisation of economic activities, lifestyles and social structures has contributed to environmental degradation, posing major threats to human health at the local and global levels. All these problems including climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss represent challenges that are unlikely to be met with existing approaches, capabilities and tools. This article acknowledges the need for well-prepared practitioners from many walks of life to contribute to environmental public health (EPH) functions thus strengthening society's capacity and capability to respond effectively and in a timely manner to such complex situations and multiple challenges. It envisions a new EPH practice addressing questions on: Why do this? What needs to be addressed? Who will do it? How can it be implemented? This article focuses on the main challenging EPH issues worldwide and how they could be addressed using a conceptual framework for training. A companion article shows how they have been tackled in practice, providing ideas and experiences.

Indexed as

Capacity BuildingGlobal HealthClimate ChangeEnvironmental HealthHumansPublic HealthPublic Health Practiceecological public healthecological sustainabilityecologyeducationenvironmental changeenvironmental healthprofessional trainingpublic health

Identifiers

PMID39655257
PMCPMC11627177

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