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It is #WorldHealthDay! For 75 years, WHO has been committed to promoting #HealthForAll & serving the vulnerable. Tell us what health means to you in the comment box below.
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In a study of 20 years of data from the NASA/German GRACE and GRACE-FO satellites, two NASA scientists confirmed that major droughts and pluvials β periods of excessive precipitation and water storage on the landscape β have been occurring more often. They also found that the worldwide intensity of these extreme wet and dry events β a metric that combines extent, duration, and severity β is closely linked to global warming.
NASA Scientific Visualization Studio - Water Cycle Extremes: Droughts and Pluvials
This visualization shows extremes of the water cycle β droughts and pluvials β over a twenty-year period (2002-2021) based on observations from the GRACE and GRACE-FO satellites. Dry events are shown as red spheres and wet events as blue spheres, with earlier years being shown as lighter shades ...
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π£π£Registrations are open for the first webinar of 2023 of the "Space4Critical Infrastructure" series on February 7th dedicated to the topic of #health!π° www.eurisy.eu/event/space-4-critical-infrastructure-digital-infrastructure-and-health/registration/
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In a just published litterature "review of Importance of Weather and Environmental Variables in Agent-Based Arbovirus Models", Pascoe et al. conclude that "climatic and environmental factors may influence the arbovirus disease outbreak, transmission, and surveillance. (...) it is crucial to consider the influence of climatic and environmental factors, especially in Africa, where there are limited studies exploring this phenomenon."
Review of Importance of Weather and Environmental Variables in Agent-Based Arbovirus Models
The study sought to review the works of literature on agent-based modeling and the influence of climatic and environmental factors on disease outbreak, transmission, and surveillance. Thus, drawing the influence of environmental variables such as vegetation index, households, mosquito habitats, bree...
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Nicely designed world maps of mortality rates of communicable and non-communicable diseases in 2019, proposed by Cartoprodig (UMR PRODIG) in their great maps repository (over 400 maps)
www.cartoprodig.cnrs.fr/carte/taux-de-mortalite-par-cause-de-maladies-non-transmissibles-du-total-2019-6/
www.cartoprodig.cnrs.fr/carte/taux-de-mortalite-par-cause-de-maladies-transmissibles-maternelle-perinatale-ou-nutritionnelle-du-total-2019-6/
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Great News! We will have our first annual online Health Geography Symposium for Emerging Researchers on the 15th of December, 2022!
Anyone in their early career in Health Geography is welcome to join the symposium and present their work in a friendly and supportive online environment.
Submit your abstract by the 30th of November 2022 under
forms.gle/pjgH7gaofvq2DUdTA
Come and join us!
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A new #OneHealth Joint Plan of Action was launched in October 2022 by the Quadripartite β the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH, founded as OIE).
Today, a new One Health Joint Plan of Action was launched by the Quadripartite β the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH, founded as O...
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Article: interesting perspective on how remote sensing has been used during the Covid pandemic. It highlights that:
β’ Satellite imagery assisted government, humanitarian and commercial entities in efforts to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
β’ Satellite imagery contributed to our understanding of COVID-19 epidemiology.
β’ RS helped measure economic and environmental impacts of the pandemic.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352938522000970
The role of remote sensing during a global disaster: COVID-19 pandemic as case study
Remotely sensed imagery is used as a tool to aid decision makers and scientists in a variety of fields. A recent world event in which satellite imagerβ¦
Special Issue on “Remote Sensing for Health: from Fine-scale Investigations towards Early-warning Systems” in the Remote Sensing Journal (IF 5.3), with 11 articles published in 2020
