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Association of neighbourhood disadvantage and individual socioeconomic position with all-cause mortality: a longitudinal multicohort analysis

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous

Background Few studies have examined the interactions between individual socioeconomic position and neighbourhood deprivation and the findings so far are heterogeneous. Using a large sample of diverse cohorts, we investigated the interaction effect of neig ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Business power and the regulation of pollution: oil refineries in Switzerland in the early 1960s

Nicolas Christophe Chachereau

In the late 1950s and in the 1960s, in response to the surge of gasoline and fuel oil consumption, several international oil companies planned the building of refineries in Switzerland, linked to European pipelines. Two were realized, out of four propositi ...

2022

Engaging Society For Sustainability - The essential role of participative and deliberative democracy

Sascha Nick

Do we need more democracy? Our multiple crises, especially of biodiversity, climate, social inclusion, health, and ultimately purpose, all of them created (and still being made worse) by human action, show that our collective governance is failing to solve ...

Swiss Association of MBAs (SAMBA)2022

Canopy dieback and recovery in Australian native forests following extreme drought

Alice Jacqueline Frédérique Gauthey

In 2019, south-eastern Australia experienced its driest and hottest year on record, resulting in massive canopy dieback events in eucalypt dominated forests. A subsequent period of high precipitation in 2020 provided a rare opportunity to quantify the impa ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Sex Differences in Comorbidity Combinations in the Swedish Population

Patrick Karl Alois Neff

High comorbidity rates, especially mental-physical comorbidity, constitute an increasing health care burden, with women and men being differentially affected. To gain an overview of comorbidity rates stratified by sex across a range of different conditions ...

MDPI2022

Impact of the Natural Compound Urolithin A on Health, Disease, and Aging

Johan Auwerx, Pénélope Andreux, Davide D'Amico, Pamela Solange Valdés Undurraga, Anurag Singh

Urolithin A (UA) is a natural compound produced by gut bacteria from ingested ellagitannins (ETs) and ellagic acid (EA), complex polyphenols abundant in foods such as pomegranate, berries, and nuts. UA was discovered 40 years ago, but only recently has its ...

2021

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Globalization and technological progress have facilitated the progressive implementation of “modern” architectural and urban planning in the countries of the South. These countries aim to replicate Western planning models in African cities. Both at the pub ...

2021

Rethinking urban health in productive habitats: a One Health approach perspective

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

Urban planning in the twentieth century has expressed as one of its main objectives its concern for the health of cities. With the advent of the hygiene movement and the decentralization of industry, new urban models and rationalities came into practice, e ...

2021

The quantification of population-level health behaviors is crucial for guiding public health policy. However, traditional methods for measuring such health behaviors have several short- comings. In recent years social media data has been successfully used ...

EPFL2021

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If environmental factors are important determinants of health, then universal access to adequate housing is key to tackle urban health inequities. Yet, with over one billion urban dwellers having no other choice than living in so-called slums, the provisio ...

2021