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ReviewFrontiers in public health2024

Building competency to deal with environmental health challenges: experiences and a proposal.

Giovanni S Leonardi, Ariana Zeka, Matthew Ashworth, Catherine Bouland, Helen Crabbe, Raquel Duarte-Davidson, Ruth A Etzel, Nia Giuashvili, Özden Gökdemir, Wojciech Hanke and 12 more

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Review in Frontiers in public health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

22 authors.

Giovanni S LeonardiUKHSA, London, United Kingdom.
Ariana ZekaUKHSA, London, United Kingdom.
Matthew AshworthInstitute of Environmental Science and Research Limited (ESR), Upper Hutt, New Zealand.
Catherine BoulandUniversité Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)-Ecole de Santé Publique, Brussels, Belgium.
Helen CrabbeUKHSA, London, United Kingdom.
Raquel Duarte-DavidsonUKHSA, London, United Kingdom.
Ruth A EtzelMilken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States.
Nia GiuashviliNational Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tblisi, Georgia.
Özden GökdemirFaculty of Medicine, Izmir University of Economics, İzmir, Türkiye.
Wojciech HankeNofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland.
Peter van den HazelInternational Network on Children's Health, Environment and Safety (INCHES), Ellecom, Netherlands.
Paul JagalsWHO Collaborating Centre for Children's Health and Environment, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Ejaz Ahmad KhanHealth Services Academy, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Piedad Martin-OlmedoAndalusian School of Public Health, Granada, Spain.
Joseph PettIHR Strengthening Project, UKHSA, Bangkok, Thailand.
Ekaterine RuadzeNational Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tblisi, Georgia.
Maria Grazia SantamariaASL Foggia, Foggia, Italy.
Jan C SemenzaDepartment of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Cecilia SorensenGlobal Consortium on Climate and Health Education at Columbia University, New York, NY, United States.
Sotiris VardoulakisHEAL Global Research Centre, Health Research Institute, University of Canberra, Bruce, ACT, Australia.
Fuyuen YipUS-CDC, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Paolo LauriolaInternational Society Doctors for the Environment (ISDE), Rete Italiana Medici Sentinella per l'Ambiente (RIMSA), Arezzo, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The global landscape of professional training in environmental health, encompassing ecological public health or environmental public health, lacks consistent global implementation for training programs for public health practitioners, clinical professionals, and individuals across various disciplines, as well as standardized curricula for undergraduates. This training gap is related to the overall lack of capacity in addressing the population impacts of the triple challenge of pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate change, impeding the worldwide transition to and development of ecological sustainability. This paper reviews existing approaches and their potential to address implementation challenges within the necessarily tight timescale. Spreading of best practice appears feasible even without substantial additional resources, through the reorientation of current practices via comprehensive multi-disciplinary training programs. By adopting international best practices of training in environmental health, the focus in training and education can shift from future decision-makers to enhancing the competencies of current professionals and their institutions.

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Environmental HealthClimate ChangeCurriculumHumansProfessional CompetencePublic Healthecological public healthecological sustainabilityecologyeducationenvironmental changeenvironmental healthprofessional trainingpublic health

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PMID39655259
PMCPMC11627219

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