Ocean entrance in Conakry, Guinea by Sarah Ju
The Public Sphere crew, along with the LSE Africa Summit crew, are excited to current to you this 12 months’s Africa Summit version of The Public Sphere journal, which highlights a spread of serious coverage points and areas of analysis spanning throughout the African Continent. The publication of the particular version journal comes because the 2016 LSE Africa Summit convention is about to kick off on Friday, 22 April.
The papers on this 12 months’s version share in a standard a significance and relevance to this 12 months’s convention theme and are central to the dialogue round Africa inside a worldwide context right this moment.
In the journal, you may learn concerning the evolution of the soya sector in Mozambique and dive into the controversy round land grabbing in Central Nigeria. You can be taught concerning the political financial system of epidemics; and assess the influence of Chinese agriculture know-how demonstration centres in Southern Africa. Further, you may delve into vital gender points similar to gender-based violence crimes within the Democratic Republic of the Congo, human trafficking in Nigeria, gender-specific improvement in Zimbabwe, and the which means of feminine genital reducing in Africa right this moment.
You can learn extra concerning the particular version, and discover the complete model of the papers revealed right here: LSE Africa Summit Edition 2016.
BACKGROUNDThis article describes a bibliometric overview of the environmental well being analysis literature in Europe for a interval of 10 years. The work, inside the examine SPHERE (Strengthening PublicHealth Research in Europe) aimed to offer an outline of the extent of revealed environmental well being analysis in Europe and to evaluate latest output on this analysis area and future analysis route.METHODSMedline was used by way of the PubMed on-line service of the US National Library of Medicine.
Only authentic, peer-reviewed analysis journal articles have been retrieved, which have been revealed from mid-1995 to mid-2005 and by authors from the 28 (then) international locations in Europe of the European Economic Area plus Switzerland.RESULTSIn the PubMed database, 6329 references have been positioned and have been allotted to 11 pre-defined matter areas and 31 subtopic areas.
The largest variety of articles was within the matter space of labor atmosphere and well being (2339) adopted by environmental exposures (1314) and environmental sicknesses (952) and these have been the first foci of 73% of the revealed articles. There have been marked variations between international locations within the variety of revealed articles.
Ten international locations contributed 81% of all publications. It is obvious that financial components have a significant function for analysis outputs of nations in environmental well being.CONCLUSIONSMajor advances have been made throughout latest years within the understanding of associations between well being and atmosphere, and of organic, environmental and social mechanisms concerned on this affiliation.
More emphasis ought to be positioned on investigations of complicated environmental well being issues similar to complicated exposures to totally different pollution at totally different ranges and their mixed well being influence in several populations.