Health-related impacts of climate change and air pollution on older adult, child, and adolescent immigrants and refugees globally: a scoping review.
Aim: Climate change and air pollution exposures are global issues impacting human health. This scoping review aims to synthesize evidence on the health-related impacts of climate change and air pollution exposures on immigrant and refugee populations younger than 18 and 65 years and older, and to de...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice (2198-1833) Vol. 33; no. 6; pp. 1341 - 1350 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=185425187&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 185425187 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 21981833 NENI jtl: Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice (2198-1833) issn: 21981833 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2025 vid: 33 iid: 6 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 185425187 10.1007/s10389-023-02103-z ppf: 1341 ppct: 9 formats: tig: atl: Health-related impacts of climate change and air pollution on older adult, child, and adolescent immigrants and refugees globally: a scoping review. aug: au: Sidney, Brooke T. Chandras, Shubham Campbell, Sandra M. Salma, Jordana Yamamoto, Shelby S. affil: https://ror.org/0160cpw27 School of Public Health, University of Alberta, T6G 1C9, Edmonton, AB, Canada https://ror.org/0160cpw27 John W. Scott Health Sciences Library, University of Alberta, T6G 2R7, Edmonton, AB, Canada https://ror.org/0160cpw27 Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, T6G 1C9, Edmonton, AB, Canada su: Canada Air pollution Immigrants Health status indicators Climate change Psychology of refugees Sex distribution Age distribution Race Adolescence Children Old age Medical information storage & retrieval systems Research funding Respiratory syncytial virus Descriptive statistics Systematic reviews MEDLINE Environmental exposure Medical databases sug: subj: Air pollution Immigrants Health status indicators Climate change Psychology of refugees Sex distribution Age distribution Race Adolescence Children Old age Canada Medical information storage & retrieval systems Research funding Respiratory syncytial virus Descriptive statistics Systematic reviews MEDLINE Environmental exposure Medical databases keyword: Adolescent Immigrant Medical and Health Sciences Public Health and Health Services Older adult Refugee Adolescent Immigrant Medical and Health Sciences Public Health and Health Services Older adult Refugee ab: Aim: Climate change and air pollution exposures are global issues impacting human health. This scoping review aims to synthesize evidence on the health-related impacts of climate change and air pollution exposures on immigrant and refugee populations younger than 18 and 65 years and older, and to determine if the impacts are influenced by age, immigrant category, gender, and/or geographical location. Subject and methods: Databases were searched from inception to July 2022 and included PROSPERO, OVID Medline, OVID EMBASE, Wiley Cochrane Library (CDSR and Central), Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global and SCOPUS. All time frames, languages, and geographic locations were included. Types of evidence sources included were reviews (e.g. scoping, systematic, clinical), books, and descriptive (e.g., ecological) and analytical (e.g. case–control, cross-sectional and cohort) studies. Results: Three studies fit the criteria. All used secondary data sources, different study designs and analysis approaches and defined immigrants, refugees, and exposures differently. Only climate change exposures (excessive temperatures) were explored, with mortality and respiratory syncytial virus outcomes. Two articles found that foreign-born and non-US citizens 65 years and older were similarly or less susceptible compared to native-born, but younger individuals were more susceptible. The other found that higher temperatures were associated with higher respiratory syncytial virus incidence in refugee children younger than 5 years old. If stratification was done, only sex, age, race, ethnicity, and place of birth were examined. Conclusions: Immigrants and refugees are understudied in the literature and often excluded. Additional research is needed to determine other exposures and health outcomes for immigrant and refugee populations. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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