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Local health departments use NC ENVIROSCAN to incorporate environmental health data into community health needs assessments

UNC Epidemiology Blog

A new collaboration between UNC SRP and North Carolina county health departments will help counties more easily incorporate environmental health and environmental justice perspectives into their community health needs assessments. The full toolkit will be released this fall.

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Op-ed: A stalled global plastic treaty threatens our future fertility

Environmental Health News

The entire plastic life cycle harms our health A 2024 study from Europe estimates that approximately 16,000 chemicals play a role in the life cycle of plastic production. Very few have been tested and data on their hazard to human and environmental health is sparse.

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Residents say Pennsylvania has failed communities after state studies linked fracking to child cancer

Environmental Health News

Disseminating public health guidance and research are critical functions of the Department of Health,” said Talor Musil, a field manager at the Environmental Health Project during the press conference. Disseminating public health guidance and research are critical functions of the Department of Health.

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Bayer’s new Roundup products more toxic than prior formulations, report asserts

Environmental Health News

consumers contain chemicals that pose greater health risks to people than prior formulations suspected of causing cancer, according to an analysis by an environmental health advocacy group. New types of Roundup weed killing products marketed to U.S. The report was disputed by Bayer, which called the analysis “deeply flawed.”

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How we monitor invasive mosquitoes and stop them spreading in the UK

UK Health Security

This has contributed to the spread of vector-borne diseases to areas where they were previously not present, including the UK. All of these traps would have collected invasive mosquitoes if they were present, so we're pretty confident we don't have them in other parts of the UK at moment. What happens when we detect them?

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LISTEN: Ufuoma Ovienmhada on toxic prisons

Environmental Health News

Ovienmhada, a current fellow and a postdoctoral fellow in the school of geography, development, and environment at the University of Arizona, also talks about what prison ecology means, why extreme heat is so much worse and potentially deadly at prisons, and efforts to relieve environmental burdens for people who are incarcerated.

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Op-ed: The Blue Economy is failing small-scale fishers

Environmental Health News

Central to the narratives of many development agencies, it is presented as a way to gain economic value from the oceans for low-income countries in the Global South, while promoting food security, economic development, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability. What is the Blue Economy?