4 documents found, page 1 of 1
Exploring emerging trends in climate change’s impacts on the cardiopulmonary he...
Santos, Omar Portela Dos; Amaudruz, Florence Selz; Alves, Paulo Jorge Pereira; Verloo, HenkBackground: Climate change and air pollution are major threats to cardiopulmonary health, yet their population-level impacts in alpine regions remain insufficiently documented. Methods: This pilot study aimed to generate preliminary evidence and assess the feasibility of a larger investigation by examining associations between meteorological and air pollution variables and adult cardiopulmonary emergency depart...
The CHANT's conceptual and psychometric validity in Switzerland: a descriptive ...
Santos, Omar Portela Dos; Alves, Paulo Jorge Pereira; Verloo, HenkTo effectively mitigate the health impacts of climate change, future nurses must be equipped with the requisite knowledge and competencies. Knowing their levels of ecoliteracy would help to make them more effective. Background/Objectives: This descriptive study will use a three-round, multicentre, modified e-Delphi survey to establish an expert panel’s consensus on the Climate, Health, and Nursing Tool’s (CHANT...
Promoting eCo-responsability, eCo-literacy, and eCo-centricity in emergency tri...
Santos, Omar Portela Dos; Verloo, Henk; Alves, Paulo Jorge PereiraBackground: Climate change, ambient air pollution, and non-optimal temperatures are recognized as a global health emergency. Many studies have highlighted increases in the number of emergency hospital admissions and hospitalizations for respiratory and cardiovascular diseases associated with nonoptimal temperatures, unconventional gas reserves, particulate matter, agrounded level Os, sulphur dioxide, or nitroge...
Measuring nurses´ knowledge and awareness of climate change and climate-associa...
Santos, Omar Portela Dos; Perruchoud, Élodie; Pereira, Filipa; Alves, Paulo; Verloo, HenkBackground: As early as 1995, the Institute of Medicine suggested that nurses were inadequately prepared for and educated about climate change and its health consequences. The aim of this systematic review is to identify the most reliable, robust, and valid instruments for measuring nurses’ knowledge and awareness of climate change and climate-associated diseases. Methods: Included studies were appraised using ...