scholarly journals PROTOCOL: Plastics in the food system: Human health, economic and environmental impacts. A scoping review

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Yates ◽  
Megan Deeney ◽  
Howard White ◽  
Edward Joy ◽  
Sofia Kalamatianou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Economic ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Food System

scholarly journals Effects of plastics in the food system on human health, food security, and the environment: a systematic scoping review

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. S18
Author(s):  
Joe Yates ◽  
Megan Deeney ◽  
Heike B Rolker ◽  
Howard White ◽  
Sofia Kalamatianou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Food System ◽  
Health Food

Toward a Healthy and Environmentally Sustainable Campus Food Environment: A Scoping Review of Postsecondary Food Interventions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten M Lee ◽  
Goretty M Dias ◽  
Karla Boluk ◽  
Steffanie Scott ◽  
Yi-Shin Chang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Food System ◽  
Eating Patterns ◽  
Nutrition Labeling ◽  
Structural Determinants ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
The Individual

ABSTRACT Interventions are urgently needed to transform the food system and shift population eating patterns toward those consistent with human health and environmental sustainability. Postsecondary campuses offer a naturalistic setting to trial interventions to improve the health of students and provide insight into interventions that could be scaled up in other settings. However, the current state of the evidence on interventions to support healthy and environmentally sustainable eating within postsecondary settings is not well understood. A scoping review of food- and nutrition-related interventions implemented and evaluated on postsecondary campuses was conducted to determine the extent to which they integrate considerations related to human health and/or environmental sustainability, as well as to synthesize the nature and effectiveness of interventions and to identify knowledge gaps in the literature. MEDLINE (via PubMed), CINAHL, Scopus, and ERIC were searched to identify articles describing naturalistic campus food interventions published in English from January 2015 to December 2019. Data were extracted from 38 peer-reviewed articles, representing 37 unique interventions, and synthesized according to policy domains within the World Cancer Research Foundation's NOURISHING framework. Most interventions were focused on supporting human health, whereas considerations related to environmental sustainability were minimal. Interventions to support human health primarily sought to increase nutrition knowledge or to make complementary shifts in food environments, such as through nutrition labeling at point of purchase. Interventions to support environmental sustainability often focused on reducing food waste and few emphasized consumption patterns with lower environmental impacts. The implementation of integrated approaches considering the complexity and interconnectivity of human and planetary health is needed. Such approaches must go beyond the individual to alter the structural determinants that shape our food system and eating patterns.

Food, Water and the Consequences of Society Not Valuing the Environment

2019 ◽  
pp. 858-878 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Allan
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
The Political ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Accounting Systems ◽  
The Impact

The first purpose of this chapter is to highlight the impact of the food system on environmental and human health. The delivery of secure affordable food is a political imperative. Unfortunately, the food system that delivers it is environmentally blind. Food prices do not effectively reflect the value of food and often seriously mislead on the costs and impacts of food production. For example, actual food production takes place in a failed market—the value of environmental services such as water and the supporting ecosystems are not taken into account. The second purpose is to summarize and expose the political economy of the different ‘market’ modes of the food system. It is shown that there are weak players such as underrewarded and undervalued farmers who support society by producing food and stewarding our unvalued environment. The inadequacies of accounting systems are also critiqued.

Interprofessional initiatives between the human health professions and veterinary medical students: a scoping review

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molly Courtenay ◽  
Pat Conrad ◽  
Michael Wilkes ◽  
Roberto La Ragione ◽  
Noel Fitzpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Veterinary Medical Students

Interventions for Improving Health Care Workers’ Retention in Epidemics – a Scoping Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra Zarei Jelyani ◽  
Sadra Valiee ◽  
Mohammad Kia ◽  
Ali jajarmizadeh ◽  
Sajad Delavari
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Health System ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Health Resources ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Care Workers

Abstract Introduction: Generally, in Epidemics, such as COVID-19, health care workers (HCWs) faces many problems which lead to a shortage and weakening of human resources in the health system. Therefore, using effective strategies to retain human resources is one of the most important issues during outbreaks. This study aims to collect and classify the proposed interventions to strengthen human health resources and their sustainability during epidemics through scoping review.Methods: In this scoping review study, 2300 studies were retrieved through searching international databases –PubMed, Embase, Scopus and Web of Science. The retrieved studies were screened, and finally, 50 studies were included for analysis. The strategies were classified using inductive qualitative content analysis.Results: Most of the studies were conducted in the United States and the United Kingdom. The target population in 39 studies was all health workers; five studies were on physicians, five studies on nurses, and only one study on dentists. The proposed interventions were classified into five categories: preparation, protection, support, treatment, and feedback. Discussion: Most studies focused on providing interventions in one or two dimensions of human resources, but these interventions were summarized and categorized in this review. Therefore, this study has a holistic view of various dimensions of strengthening and maintaining human health resources during epidemics by providing a thematic map. Considering that human beings are multidimensional, policymakers and managers of the health system should use a set of interventions that simultaneously cover different aspects of their needs to strengthen and maintain HCWs.

scholarly journals Subnational mobility and consumption-based environmental accounting of US corn in animal protein and ethanol supply chains

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (38) ◽  
pp. E7891-E7899 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy M. Smith ◽  
Andrew L. Goodkind ◽  
Taegon Kim ◽  
Rylie E. O. Pelton ◽  
Kyo Suh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Food System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Environmental Accounting ◽  
Animal Protein ◽  
Corn Production ◽  
Supply Networks

Corn production, and its associated inputs, is a relatively large source of greenhouse gas emissions and uses significant amounts of water and land, thus contributing to climate change, fossil fuel depletion, local air pollutants, and local water scarcity. As large consumers of this corn, corporations in the ethanol and animal protein industries are increasingly assessing and reporting sustainability impacts across their supply chains to identify, prioritize, and communicate sustainability risks and opportunities material to their operations. In doing so, many have discovered that the direct impacts of their owned operations are dwarfed by those upstream in the supply chain, requiring transparency and knowledge about environmental impacts along the supply chains. Life cycle assessments (LCAs) have been used to identify hotspots of environmental impacts at national levels, yet these provide little subnational information necessary for guiding firms’ specific supply networks. In this paper, our Food System Supply-Chain Sustainability (FoodS3) model connects spatial, firm-specific demand of corn purchasers with upstream corn production in the United States through a cost minimization transport model. This provides a means to link county-level corn production in the United States to firm-specific demand locations associated with downstream processing facilities. Our model substantially improves current LCA assessment efforts that are confined to broad national or state level impacts. In drilling down to subnational levels of environmental impacts that occur over heterogeneous areas and aggregating these landscape impacts by specific supply networks, targeted opportunities for improvements to the sustainability performance of supply chains are identified.

scholarly journals Marine harmful algal blooms and human health: A systematic scoping review

Harmful Algae ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 101901
Author(s):  
Nick Young ◽  
Richard A. Sharpe ◽  
Rosa Barciela ◽  
Gordon Nichols ◽  
Keith Davidson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Harmful Algal Blooms ◽  
Algal Blooms

scholarly journals Demand-Side Food Policies for Public and Planetary Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 5924
Author(s):  
Elisabeth H.M. Temme ◽  
Reina E. Vellinga ◽  
Henri de Ruiter ◽  
Susanna Kugelberg ◽  
Mirjam van de Kamp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Policy Instrument ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Effective Policy ◽  
Food Policies

Background: The current food system has major consequences for the environment and for human health. Alignment of the food policy areas of mitigating climate change and public health will ensure coherent and effective policy interventions for sustaining human health and the environment. This paper explores literature on demand-side policies that aim to reduce consumption of animal-based foods, increase plant-based foods, and reduce overconsumption. Methods: We searched for publications, published between January 2000 and December 2019, considering the above policy domains. Articles were distinguished for type of policy instrument, for topic via keywords and examples were given. Results: The majority of demand-side policies focus on preventing overweight and obesity, using all types of policy instruments including more forceful market-based policies. Hardly any examples of public policies explicitly aiming to lower animal-based foods consumption were found. Policies combining health and sustainability objectives are few and mainly of the information type. Discussion: Moving towards environmentally sustainable and healthy diets is challenging as the implemented demand-side policies focus largely on human health, and not yet on environmental outcomes, or on win-wins. Policies targeting foods from the health perspective can contribute to lower environmental impacts, by indicating suitable animal-based food replacers, and aiming at avoiding overconsumption of energy dense-nutrient poor foods. Preferred policies include a variety of instruments, including strong measures. Conclusions: Working solutions are available to ensure coherent and effective demand side food policies aligning public health and environmental aims. Implementation of aligned and effective policy packages is urgent and needed.

scholarly journals Human health effects of traffic-related air pollution (TRAP): a scoping review protocol

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlyn J. Matz ◽  
Marika Egyed ◽  
Robyn Hocking ◽  
Shayesta Seenundun ◽  
Nick Charman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Review Protocol ◽  
Human Health Effects
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