Because of the increasing concerns about climate change and deadly heatwaves in the past,
the health effects of hot weather are fast becoming a global public health challenge for the …

Background Associations between air pollution and a multitude of health effects are now
well established. Given ubiquitous exposure to some level of air pollution, the attributable …

Purpose of Review Lead can enter drinking water from lead service lines and lead-containing
plumbing, particularly in the presence of corrosive water. We review the current evidence …

In Canada in late 1987 there was an outbreak of an acute illness characterized by
gastrointestinal symptoms and unusual neurologic abnormalities among persons who had eaten …

Background: Epidemiologic studies show that high temperatures are related to mortality, but
little is known about the exposure-response function and the lagged effect of heat. We report …

… where T a is air temperature and T d is dew point temperature (derived from relative humidity…
Kosatsky T, Menne B. Preparedness for extreme weather among national health ministries …

The current issue of Eurosurveillance updates and provides additional context to the report
in early 2004 of an estimated 22 080 excess deaths in England and Wales, France, Italy and …

… where T t and Y t are the observed … t (t=1, 2….t*), respectively; Y c t baseline is the estimated
baseline level of mortality at time t; and AD ct is the number of attributable deaths at time t for …

Background: Little attention has been paid to how heat-related health effects vary with the
micro-urban variation of outdoor temperatures. This study explored whether people located in …

The purpose of this study was to examine food safety knowledge of trained food handlers
certified under the FOODSAFE training program in British Columbia, Canada and to evaluate …