Combating infectious diseases in the Pacific Islands: sentinel surveillance, environmental health, and geospatial tools
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Colleen Lau
Abstract
Infectious diseases are responsible for significant disease burden in the Pacific Islands. Environmental drivers of disease transmission and public health challenges vary between diseases, at times of emergence versus outbreaks, and also during the last stages of elimination where prevalence is low. In order to more effectively combat infectious diseases in the region, innovative approaches such as sentinel surveillance, environmental monitoring, the use of geospatial tools should be explored.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- The Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health
- Environmental Exposures in Indigenous Communities
- Environmental exposure in indigenous communities: an international perspective
- Novel materials for environmental remediation of oil sands contaminants
- Metals
- Long-term health consequences of prenatal arsenic exposure: links to the genome and the epigenome
- Health hazards and mitigation of chronic poisoning from arsenic in drinking water: Taiwan experiences
- Remediation of mercury-contaminated soil – a case study
- Bioaccessibility, release kinetics, and molecular speciation of arsenic and lead in geo-dusts from the Iron King Mine Federal Superfund site in Humboldt, Arizona
- Mercury poisoning dentistry: high-level indoor air mercury contamination at selected dental sites
- Hazardous Waste
- New approaches and insights into bioremediation of hazardous waste
- Modeling the emission sources for polychlorinated biphenyls in India: implications for human health risk assessment
- Microorganism-assisted phytoremediation of heavy metal and endosulfan contaminated soil
- Chemicals: friends and foes
- Spatial distribution of persistent organic pollutants in the surface water of River Brahmaputra and River Ganga in India
- Hexachlorocyclohexane: persistence, toxicity and decontamination
- E-waste: impacts, issues and management strategies
- Water
- Clean water and sanitation in developing areas lacking conventional power
- Striving for success in sanitation, hygiene, and water supply
- Solar membrane distillation: desalination for the Navajo Nation
- Climate change and managing water crisis: Pakistan’s perspective
- Effective utilization of waste water through recycling, reuse, and remediation for sustainable agriculture
- Mining
- Socially responsible mining: the relationship between mining and poverty, human health and the environment
- Modeling the emission, transport and deposition of contaminated dust from a mine tailing site
- Coal mine drainage sludge and its application for treating metallic mine effluent
- Emerging Issues in the Pacific Basin
- Nanotechnology and toxicology
- Nanotoxicology and nanotechnology: new findings from the NIEHS and Superfund Research Program scientific community
- Nanotechnology in environmental remediation: degradation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) over visible-light-active nanostructured materials
- Combating infectious diseases in the Pacific Islands: sentinel surveillance, environmental health, and geospatial tools
- Projected health impacts of heat events in Washington State associated with climate change
- Community-based approaches to environmental health research around the globe
- Air Pollution
- Particulate air pollution and cardiovascular disease – it is time to take it seriously
- Chemical exposure and respiratory health of children in an industrial setting
- Fine particles characterization in residential homes located in different microenvironment of India
- Respiratory health risk assessment of children living close to industrial areas in Indonesia
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- The Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health
- Environmental Exposures in Indigenous Communities
- Environmental exposure in indigenous communities: an international perspective
- Novel materials for environmental remediation of oil sands contaminants
- Metals
- Long-term health consequences of prenatal arsenic exposure: links to the genome and the epigenome
- Health hazards and mitigation of chronic poisoning from arsenic in drinking water: Taiwan experiences
- Remediation of mercury-contaminated soil – a case study
- Bioaccessibility, release kinetics, and molecular speciation of arsenic and lead in geo-dusts from the Iron King Mine Federal Superfund site in Humboldt, Arizona
- Mercury poisoning dentistry: high-level indoor air mercury contamination at selected dental sites
- Hazardous Waste
- New approaches and insights into bioremediation of hazardous waste
- Modeling the emission sources for polychlorinated biphenyls in India: implications for human health risk assessment
- Microorganism-assisted phytoremediation of heavy metal and endosulfan contaminated soil
- Chemicals: friends and foes
- Spatial distribution of persistent organic pollutants in the surface water of River Brahmaputra and River Ganga in India
- Hexachlorocyclohexane: persistence, toxicity and decontamination
- E-waste: impacts, issues and management strategies
- Water
- Clean water and sanitation in developing areas lacking conventional power
- Striving for success in sanitation, hygiene, and water supply
- Solar membrane distillation: desalination for the Navajo Nation
- Climate change and managing water crisis: Pakistan’s perspective
- Effective utilization of waste water through recycling, reuse, and remediation for sustainable agriculture
- Mining
- Socially responsible mining: the relationship between mining and poverty, human health and the environment
- Modeling the emission, transport and deposition of contaminated dust from a mine tailing site
- Coal mine drainage sludge and its application for treating metallic mine effluent
- Emerging Issues in the Pacific Basin
- Nanotechnology and toxicology
- Nanotoxicology and nanotechnology: new findings from the NIEHS and Superfund Research Program scientific community
- Nanotechnology in environmental remediation: degradation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) over visible-light-active nanostructured materials
- Combating infectious diseases in the Pacific Islands: sentinel surveillance, environmental health, and geospatial tools
- Projected health impacts of heat events in Washington State associated with climate change
- Community-based approaches to environmental health research around the globe
- Air Pollution
- Particulate air pollution and cardiovascular disease – it is time to take it seriously
- Chemical exposure and respiratory health of children in an industrial setting
- Fine particles characterization in residential homes located in different microenvironment of India
- Respiratory health risk assessment of children living close to industrial areas in Indonesia
