About this Research Topic
Environmental factors, particularly air pollution, significantly affect human health, leading to conditions such as stroke, heart disease, lung cancer, and respiratory ailments. As climate change progresses, its health implications become increasingly acute through indirect pathways like altered weather patterns, affecting particularly sensitive demographics like children and older adults. Both groups are crucial to the fabric of family, community, and economic spheres, yet they remain highly vulnerable to environmental stressors.
This Research Topic will focus on identifying and quantifying the effects of environmental factors, excluding extreme weather events, on these vulnerable populations. A thorough exploration of these impacts will help provide actionable data and inform policy decisions, thus optimizing environmental health management and promoting sustainable practices to support healthy aging and societal resilience.
This Research Topic aims to enhance our understanding of how environmental pollutants affect the health of children and older adults, foregoing the direct influence of extreme weather events, thereby contributing to more targeted and effective environmental and health governance strategies.
We encourage interdisciplinary and innovative approaches to thoroughly understand how air pollution impacts these specific age groups, thereby strengthening environmental health and resilience initiatives.
This Research Topic seeks contributions that explore these areas to offer empirical evidence that can inform and shape policy at all levels and improve health management practices. We welcome submissions from epidemiological research to policy analysis to aid stakeholders, from policymakers to families, in enhancing their environmental health strategies.
We invite submissions on a variety of topics, not limited to the ones listed below:
● Impact of air pollution on children: investigating health risks related to air pollution, particularly its effects on development and disease predisposition in children.
● Impact of extreme weather events on children: exploring the specific impacts of extreme climate conditions on children.
● Impact of air pollution on older adults: examining how air pollution exacerbates chronic conditions and increases mortality risks in the older adults.
● Impact of extreme weather events on older adults: studying how extreme weather affects older adults' health.
● Health management strategies: developing targeted prevention and intervention strategies to support the unique needs of children and older adults, informed by empirical evidence.
This Research Topic will focus on identifying and quantifying the effects of environmental factors, excluding extreme weather events, on these vulnerable populations. A thorough exploration of these impacts will help provide actionable data and inform policy decisions, thus optimizing environmental health management and promoting sustainable practices to support healthy aging and societal resilience.
This Research Topic aims to enhance our understanding of how environmental pollutants affect the health of children and older adults, foregoing the direct influence of extreme weather events, thereby contributing to more targeted and effective environmental and health governance strategies.
We encourage interdisciplinary and innovative approaches to thoroughly understand how air pollution impacts these specific age groups, thereby strengthening environmental health and resilience initiatives.
This Research Topic seeks contributions that explore these areas to offer empirical evidence that can inform and shape policy at all levels and improve health management practices. We welcome submissions from epidemiological research to policy analysis to aid stakeholders, from policymakers to families, in enhancing their environmental health strategies.
We invite submissions on a variety of topics, not limited to the ones listed below:
● Impact of air pollution on children: investigating health risks related to air pollution, particularly its effects on development and disease predisposition in children.
● Impact of extreme weather events on children: exploring the specific impacts of extreme climate conditions on children.
● Impact of air pollution on older adults: examining how air pollution exacerbates chronic conditions and increases mortality risks in the older adults.
● Impact of extreme weather events on older adults: studying how extreme weather affects older adults' health.
● Health management strategies: developing targeted prevention and intervention strategies to support the unique needs of children and older adults, informed by empirical evidence.
Keywords: environmental factors, health effects, children, older adults
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