Built Environment
Recognizing the health impacts of the natural and human-made surroundings in which we live, work, and play.
A closer look at energy expenditure and pollution inhalation during urban cycling: Physics, physiology, and travel behaviour
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Built Environment, Outdoor Air
Although urban cycling is widely known and promoted as physically active transportation, the actual physics of utilitarian cycling have been given little attention in transportation engineering and…
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Built Environment, Equity, Food
Government policies targeting the availability, affordability, and marketing of foods can shape the food environment. Local governments are often the first to implement innovative healthy food…
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Built Environment
The way we build cities shapes how people live. City building can create positive or negative health outcomes. It can contribute to or detract from the genuine well-being of individuals and…
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Built Environment, Outdoor Air
Active transportation refers mainly to walking and cycling for transportation.
Health Benefits:
People who use active transportation are, on average, more physically fit, less obese, and have a…
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Built Environment, Climate Change
Adaptation Canada 2020 is Canada’s national conference on climate change adaptation. Building on the success of the 2016 conference in Ottawa, Adaptation Canada 2020 rolls out February 19-21 for…
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Agriculture, Built Environment, Nuisance Control, Outdoor Air
Nearly 200 million tonnes of livestock manure are generated in Canada each year.1 Manure storage and land application tends to produce odour, greenhouse gases, microbes, and particulate matter, which…
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Built Environment
In recent years, research evidence on the influence of healthy built environments (HBE) on human physical, mental, and social health has increased drastically. As a result, public health agencies and…
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Indigenous Environmental Health, Agriculture, Built Environment, Biological Agents, Cannabis, Chemical Agents, Climate Change, Infectious Diseases, Contaminants and Hazards, Drinking Water, Emergency Preparedness, Surveillance, Equity, Food, Wildfire, Health Impact Assessment, Indoor Air, Nuisance Control, Outdoor Air, Personal Service Establishments, Pest Control, Physical Agents, Practices and Procedures, Public Facilities, Radiation, Recreational Water, Risk Analysis, Seniors' Environmental Health, Tobacco Reduction, Waste, Water, Zoonoses
Full ScanThe attached PDF version of the Research Scan has over 100 references and is broken into over 30 categories.Editor’s PicksAfter searching through the dozens of articles referenced in the…
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Built Environment, Indoor Air, Public Facilities
Green building rating systems such as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) employ a variety of design solutions to reduce energy and minimize environmental damage. These solutions,…
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Modern artificial turf is used indoors and outdoors in a wide variety of settings, including multipurpose recreational and professional sports fields, playgrounds, residential areas, and public…
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[Last Updated Nov 15, 2020]
An introduction to SARS-CoV-2
The emergence of a novel coronavirus in late 2019, identified as SARS-CoV-2, has resulted in a global pandemic accompanied by an…
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Built Environment, Pest Control
Bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) are small, elusive, and resilient insects that live by feeding on the blood of mammals, including humans. Bed bug infestations have become prominent worldwide, generating…
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Built Environment, Nuisance Control, Pest Control
Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) 2010 Centennial Conference
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Built Environment, Nuisance Control, Pest Control
The objective of this paper is to share four Canadian cities’ experiences with bed bug infestations and to explore public health roles in managing them. We summarize presentations from a workshop at…
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Built Environment, COVID-19
The National Academies’ Federal Facilities Council invites you to join us for a webinar on Tuesday, June 23 from 2-3pm ET on the challenges of operating workplaces with a public interaction component…
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Built Environment, Pest Control, Zoonoses
This work was one of the 2018 Ron de Burger Student Award winners. Author: Raymond Lam, University of British Columbia – Master of Science in Occupational and Environmental HygieneIntroductionRats…
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