Review article
Numerous studies have reported that spending time in nature is associated with the improvement of various health outcomes and well-being. This review evaluated the physical and psychological benefits of a spec...
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:71
Published on: 18 October 2017
Review article
Innate immune factors exert widespread effects on cytokine secretion, cell survival, autophagy, and apoptosis. Nucleotide-binding and oligomerization domain-like receptors (NLRs) are members of the innate immu...
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:70
Published on: 11 October 2017
Research article
Communicating health messages is an important way to influence people’s behaviors towards health issues. Providers need to incorporate audience’s perspective to design more persuasive messages. This study aime...
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:69
Published on: 29 September 2017
Commentary
Amid the effects of global warming, Tokyo has become an increasingly hot city, especially during the summertime. To prepare for the upcoming 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo, all participants, inc...
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:68
Published on: 19 September 2017
Letter to the Editor
We have read with interest the article by Lu et al. entitled “Association of excessive mobile phone use during pregnancy with birth weight: an adjunct study in Kumamoto of Japan Environment and Children’s Stud...
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:67
Published on: 16 September 2017
Research article
This study aims to assess the hepatoprotective potential of Commelina nudiflora against CCl4-induced hepatic injury in rats.
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:66
Published on: 11 September 2017
Research article
Little is known concerning the lifestyle habits and health conditions in community-dwelling elderly who do not get medical care. We investigated the cross-sectional association between medical expenses (ME) an...
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:65
Published on: 25 August 2017
Research article
This study aimed to assess the association between exposure to the Great Chinese Famine (1959–1961) during early life and hypertension in adulthood.
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:64
Published on: 25 August 2017
Research
Nowadays, the bacterial contamination in the hospital environment is of particular concern because the hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), also known as nosocomial infections, are responsible for significant ...
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:63
Published on: 2 August 2017
Research article
Asian-specific single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) (rs3782886) is reported to be associated with myocardial infarction; sarcopenia is reported to be associated with coronary subclinical atherosclerosis. On t...
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:62
Published on: 27 July 2017
Review article
There is worldwide concern about the effects of environmental factors on children’s health and development. The Miami Declaration was signed at the G8 Environment Ministers Meeting in 1997 to promote children’...
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:61
Published on: 14 July 2017
Short communication
The objective of the study was to examine the association between high and low temperature and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) with cardiac etiology.
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:60
Published on: 13 July 2017
Research article
A man-made chemical disaster occurred in the Amur River, leading to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the Nanai people indigenous to the river’s surrounding area. PTSD severity measured by the total scor...
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:59
Published on: 10 July 2017
Research article
Members of the genus Acanthamoeba are widely distributed throughout the world, and some of them are considered pathogenic, as they are capable of causing corneal and central nervous system diseases. In this study...
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:58
Published on: 30 June 2017
Erratum
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:57
Published on: 16 June 2017
The original article was published in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:48
Research article
The aim of the performed study was to investigate personal and environmental factors as predictors of thermal sensation perceived by a population of students in a university setting.
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:56
Published on: 14 June 2017
Short communication
Numerous earlier studies examining the association of air pollution with maternal and foetal health estimated maternal exposure to air pollutants based on the women’s residential addresses. However, residentia...
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:55
Published on: 13 June 2017
Research article
The aim of this study was to investigate the therapeutic effects of a Sasa veitchii leaf extract (SE) on acetaminophen (APAP)-induced hepatotoxicity.
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:54
Published on: 12 June 2017
Review article
The immunological effects of asbestos exposure on various lymphocytes such as the regulatory T cell (Treg), responder CD4+ T helper cell (Tresp), CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL), and natural killer (NK) cel...
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:53
Published on: 9 June 2017
Research article
Low birth weight has been shown to be closely associated with neonatal mortality and morbidity, inhibited growth, poor cognitive development, and chronic diseases later in life. Some studies have also shown th...
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:52
Published on: 8 June 2017
Study Protocol
As Japan becomes a super-aging society, presentation of the best ways to provide medical care for the elderly, and the direction of that care, are important national issues. Elderly people have multi-morbidity...
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:51
Published on: 6 June 2017
Research article
This study was conducted in rapidly urbanizing Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to examine patterns of perceived neighborhood quality by residents and the associations between these patterns and self-reported general an...
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:50
Published on: 31 May 2017
Research article
Involvement of agrochemicals have been suggested in the development of chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu). The association between CKDu and blood level of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in CKD...
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:49
Published on: 26 May 2017
Research article
The Hokkaido Study on Environment and Children’s Health is an ongoing study consisting of two birth cohorts of different population sizes: the Sapporo cohort and the Hokkaido cohort. Our primary study goals ar...
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:46
Published on: 18 May 2017
Research article
Stepfamilies remain poorly understood in Japanese society, and the support needs of stepfamily mothers are unclear. This study aimed to identify characteristics of stepfamilies and maternal mental health as co...
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:48
Published on: 18 May 2017
The Erratum to this article has been published in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2017 22:57
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