30 articles in this issue
Humidah Alanazi, Abdelhabib Semlali, Witold Chmielewski and Mahmoud Rouabhia
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Shan Shu and Hui Ma
Previous studies have examined the restorative benefits of soundscapes on adults’ cognitive performance, but it was unclear whether those benefits would be possible for children. In this paper, two experiments applied a before–after design to ... see more
Bahareh Mansoorian, Emilie Combet, Areej Alkhaldy, Ada L. Garcia and Christine Ann Edwards
Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Ottavia Guglielmi and Sergio Garbarino
Sleep disorders have reached epidemic proportions worldwide, affecting the youth as well as the elderly, crossing the entire lifespan in both developed and developing countries. “Real-life” behavioral (sensor-based), molecular, digital, and ep... see more
Martin Niedermeier, Carina Grafetstätter, Martin Kopp, Daniela Huber, Michaela Mayr, Christina Pichler and Arnulf Hartl
Green exercise might have positive effects on health and affective states. Little is known about the ideal characteristics of the natural environment, where exercise is conducted in. Thus, the primary aim of the present study was to investigate the effect... see more
Andres R. Schneeberger, Azizi Seixas, Nina Schweinfurth, Undine E. Lang, Christian Cajochen, Donald A. Bux, Shannique Richards, Girardin Jean-Louis and Christian G. Huber
Migration can be a stressful experience and may lead to poor health and behavioral changes. The immigrant population in Switzerland is disproportionately burdened by several negative health outcomes, chief among these is mental health issues. The aim of t... see more
Seung-Lai Yoo, Dae-Jung Kim, Seung-Mi Lee, Won-Gu Kang, Sang-Yoon Kim, Jong Hyuk Lee and Dong-Churl Suh
This study reviews and evaluates the national drug formulary system used to improve patient access to new drugs by making reimbursement decisions for new drugs as part of the South Korean national health insurance system. The national health insurance uti... see more
Lingyi Zhou and Yixin Dai
Haze pollution has become the most serious environmental risk in China and generated a large amount of public concerns. Influencing almost all the citizens in the polluted area, it is necessary and important to take public perception as an essential eleme... see more
Hanne Krage Carlsen, Anna Oudin, Steinn Steingrimsson and Daniel Oudin Åström
High or low ambient temperatures pose a risk factor for the worsening or onset of psychiatric disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between ambient temperature and psychiatric emergency visits in an urban region in a temperat... see more
Marianna Cangemi, Paolo Madonia, Ludovico Albano, Alessandro Bonfardeci, Maria Grazia Di Figlia, Roberto Maria Rosario Di Martino, Marco Nicolosi and Rocco Favara
We collected and analysed 58 samples of groundwater from wells in the Barcellona-Milazzo Plain, one of the most important coastal aquifers of Sicily (Italy), to determine major, minor, and trace element concentrations. In this area, geogenic and anthropog... see more
Changliang Du
Deborah Schlichting, Ladan Hashemi and Cameron Grant
Jin Lee, Robert Henning and Martin Cherniack
The present study seeks to demonstrate how Bayesian Network analysis can be used to support Total Worker Health® research on correction workers by (1) revealing the most probable scenario of how psychosocial and behavioral outcome variables in correct... see more
Jian Wang and Liuna Geng
Health is correlated to people’s socioeconomic status (SES) and lifestyle. This study examined the impact of SES on respondents’ physical and psychological health. Moreover, we explored the potential mediating effect of lifestyle on the relati... see more
Sonja Di Blasio, Louena Shtrepi, Giuseppina Emma Puglisi and Arianna Astolfi
This cross-sectional survey has compared subjective outcomes obtained from workers in shared (2–5 occupants) and open-plan (+5 occupants) offices, related to irrelevant speech, which is the noise that is generated from conversations between colleagu... see more
Pablo García-Raya, César Ruiz-Olmos, José Ignacio Marín-Guirao, Carlos Asensio-Grima, Julio César Tello-Marquina and Miguel de Cara-García
Jin Liu, Scott Rozelle, Qing Xu, Ning Yu and Tianshu Zhou
This study examines the impact of social engagement on elderly health in China. A two-stage residual inclusion (2SRI) regression approach was used to examine the causal relationship. Our dataset comprises 9253 people aged 60 or above from the China Health... see more
Lauren Arundell, Jo Salmon, Jenny Veitch and Anna Timperio
Fei Xie, Huilie Zheng, Ling Huang, Zhaokang Yuan and Yuanan Lu
Oriana Sanicola, Terry Lucke, Michael Stewart, Katharina Tondera and Christopher Walker
Milena Andjelkovic, Aleksandra Buha Djordjevic, Evica Antonijevic, Biljana Antonijevic, Momcilo Stanic, Jelena Kotur-Stevuljevic, Vesna Spasojevic-Kalimanovska, Milos Jovanovic, Novica Boricic, David Wallace and Zorica Bulat
Anna Merklinger-Gruchala and Maria Kapiszewska
Luna Girolamini, Jessica Lizzadro, Marta Mazzotta, Matteo Iervolino, Ada Dormi and Sandra Cristino
Delphine Bachelet, Marc-André Verner, Monica Neri, Émilie Cordina Duverger, Corinne Charlier, Patrick Arveux, Sami Haddad and Pascal Guénel
Exposure to environmental chemicals with hormonal effects, such as organochlorine compounds (OCs), during developmental periods of breast cells may have an impact on the incidence of breast cancer later in life. However, the assessment of exposure to thes... see more
Guozhong Zheng, Ke Li and Yajing Wang
High-temperature weather appears in high frequency, big strength, and long duration in the summer. It is therefore important to study the effects of high-temperature weather on sleep quality and appetite. Ten healthy college students were selected as subj... see more
Ali-Mohamed Nassur, Damien Léger, Marie Lefèvre, Maxime Elbaz, Fanny Mietlicki, Philippe Nguyen, Carlos Ribeiro, Matthieu Sineau, Bernard Laumon and Anne-Sophie Evrard
Xingqing Zhao, Min Wang, Hui Wang, Ding Tang, Jian Huang and Yu Sun
Cadmium (Cd) is a highly toxic metal that can affect human health and environmental safety. The purpose of this study was to research the removal of Cd from an environmental perspective. In this article, four highly urease-active strains (CZW-2, CZW-5, CZ... see more
Valter Cordeiro Barbosa Filho, Alexsandra da Silva Bandeira, Giseli Minatto, Jair Gomes Linard, Jaqueline Aragoni da Silva, Rafael Martins da Costa, Sofia Wolker Manta, Soraya Anita Mendes de Sá, Thiago Sousa Matias and Kelly Samara da Silva
Li-Chi Chiang, Yi-Ting Chuang and Chin-Chuan Han
The Chenyulan watershed, located in the central mountain area of Taiwan, has been suffering from earthquakes, typhoons, and heavy rainfalls in recent decades. These sequential natural disturbances have a cumulative impact on the watershed, leading to more... see more
Marzena Drozd-Dabrowska, Katarzyna Topczewska, Marcin Korzen, Anna Salacka and Maria Ganczak