Environmental Epidemiology
A section of Epidemiologia (ISSN 2673-3986).
Section Information
Aim of the Section:
The aim of Environmental Epidemiology is to publish papers investigating the relationships between environmental exposures–such as air and water pollution, toxins, and climate change–and human health outcomes, aiming to identify and quantify their impacts to inform policies and interventions for public health protection.
Scope of the Section:
Environmental Epidemiology addresses the distribution and characteristics of diseases that might recognize environmental exposures as possible causes or enhaning co-factors. This section calls for original articles and contributions presenting descriptive and inferential analyses aimed at depicting the health status of populations or subgroups exposed to potential contaminants or environmental hazards, as well as at illustrating the clinical features of environment-related conditions. Experimental approaches should be sufficiently detailed so that the results can be reproduced. The Environmental Epidemiology section emphasizes a new vision of public health promotion and primary prevention through the availability of epidemilogical data—achieved by their timely publication and dissemination—that may be used by the scientific community and decision makers to design or plan new policies that are able to protect environmental, animal, and human wellbeing, in the frame of the “One Health Approach”. In addition to research papers, we also encourage submissions of systematic reviews and meta-analyses, short communications or short reviews, and case series or case reports of particular interest. Special Issues can be opened on specific topics. We foster the adoption of a transdisciplinary approach to environmental epidemiology and public health. There is no restriction on the length of the papers submitted to or published by the journal.
Keywords
- Population epidemiology and environmental risks;
- Environmental determinants of human, animal, and vegetal health;
- Planetary health;
- One Health;
- Human health risk assessment;
- Risks to human health and the environment related to industrial activities;
- Antimicrobial resistance related to One Health topics;
- Air pollution;
- Water and soil contamination;
- Exposure to ionizing radiation or radon;
- Environmental exposure to asbetos;
- Novel analytical, statistical, and computational methods to assess environmental hazards;
- Exposomics;
- Microbiomics;
- Management of natural and anthropogenic hazards;
- Emerging vector-borne diseases related to the environment and climate change;
- Exposure to chemicals, metals, and micro-plastics;
- Emerging environmental health hazards;
- Mitigation and adatpation strategies to climate change;
- Social consequences of climate change and environmental pollution impacting health;
- Epigenetics;
- Biomarkers;
- Indoor air quality;
- Urban health
- Environmental justice;
- Global health;
- Occupational safety;
- Primary prevention.
