About this Research Topic
The complex inter-relationships between population health, environment and socio-economic dynamics have long been a matter of extensive discussion yet still not well understood. Albeit it can’t be precisely calculated the exact contribution of environmental factors on population health, it’s estimated by the World Health Organization (WHO), that 24% of the global disease burden and 23% of all deaths can be attributed to environmental factors. Full life-course health, namely, health at all stages of life, is inevitably under the impacts from the environmental exposure. The prenatal and childhood exposure to malnutrition, smoking or toxic chemicals could exert long-lasting effects on children’s neuro, psychological and physical development; the occupational exposure of contacting with a potentially harmful physical, chemical, or biological agent could cause a series of diseases in adults; and older adults are particularly sensitive to changes in the environment and exposure to toxins, noxious agents, and infectious agents because of their lower physiological reserve capacity, slower metabolism, and a more slowly responding immune system. Consequently, understanding the effects of environmental exposure at multi-scale and their interaction on population and health for full life-course from a transdisciplinary perspective is needed to identify potential intervention points and improve the well-being of mankind.
Our objective is to collect cutting-edge studies in the relationship between population, environment and health for all life-course. Through this Research Topic, we hope to better understand the environmental impacts on population health, to find the underlying mechanisms, to identify potential socio-demographic vulnerable groups and to provide interdisciplinary insights and solutions.
This Research Topic encourages manuscripts that consider the effects of environmental factors on health for all life-course, namely, from fetus to adulthood to the elderly; as well as the modification or mediation factors, such as social and psychological resources, and lifestyle behaviors. We welcome Original Research, Review, Mini Review, Opinion articles from a range of inter-related disciplines including but not limited to: demography, sociology, psychology, epidemiology, and public health. Manuscripts that should be submitted can be based on, but not limited to the following subtopics:
• Population transition and full life-course health
• Social environmental factors and full life-course health
• Physical environmental factors and full life-course health
• The interactive effects of social and physical environmental factors on health
Our objective is to collect cutting-edge studies in the relationship between population, environment and health for all life-course. Through this Research Topic, we hope to better understand the environmental impacts on population health, to find the underlying mechanisms, to identify potential socio-demographic vulnerable groups and to provide interdisciplinary insights and solutions.
This Research Topic encourages manuscripts that consider the effects of environmental factors on health for all life-course, namely, from fetus to adulthood to the elderly; as well as the modification or mediation factors, such as social and psychological resources, and lifestyle behaviors. We welcome Original Research, Review, Mini Review, Opinion articles from a range of inter-related disciplines including but not limited to: demography, sociology, psychology, epidemiology, and public health. Manuscripts that should be submitted can be based on, but not limited to the following subtopics:
• Population transition and full life-course health
• Social environmental factors and full life-course health
• Physical environmental factors and full life-course health
• The interactive effects of social and physical environmental factors on health
Keywords: full life-course health, social environmental factors, physical environmental factors, interactive effects
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