Guidelines for Planning Healthy Cities
The Spanish Ministry of Health has published «Guidelines for Planning Healthy Cities». This document intends to serve as a tool to help people involved in the planning of urban environments…
Linking climate change, environmental degradation and migration
Comment to article: Piguet E. Linking climate change, environmental degradation, and migration: An update after 10 years. Wiley Interdiscip Rev Clim Chang. 2022 Jan 1;13(1). The author updates the review…
Access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is now a universal human right
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution, on Thursday 28 July 2022, declaring access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, a universal human right. This declaration will change…
Real-time data on Air Quality Index
The Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge publishes the National Air Quality Index (ICA), which provides real-time, easy-to-understand data on the quality of air measured by the…
Launch of the European Partnership for the Assessment of Risk from Chemicals (PARC)
Born with the mission of moving towards a new generation of chemical risk assessment methods in order to protect the health and the environment. The European Partnership for the Assessment…
New publication includes more than 500 000 new records of vectors that carry and transmit infectious diseases to humans
The journal Gigabyte (1), with support from the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (2), hosted at the World Health Organization, has published a special series of…
How are Health Systems Preparing for Climate Crisis?
Global warming is causing extreme heat events resulting in increased morbidity and mortality in locations unaccustomed to this phenomenon. It is well known that episodes of extreme temperature have significant…
Forecasting the geographical distribution of the West Nile virus
West Nile virus is the most geographically widespread arbovirus in the world. Identifying the links between environmental variables and the circulation of the virus is the main challenge when addressing…
Is the Spanish population adapting to heat?
Effects of local factors on adaptation to heat in Spain (1983–2018). There is a biological (physiological) acclimatisation of the population to heat, but there is also a number of…
The role of mosquitoes in the transmission of pathogens
Integrating information on the role of mosquitoes in the transmission of pathogens to wildlife Mosquitoes play a central role in the transmission of diseases to people, livestock and wildlife. As…