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Climate ClinicBe the Expert: Episode 20: Going electric for our healthWelcome back to Be the Expert! The article we are bringing to you today was first published in the journal “Science of the total environment”, in February this year, titled, “California's early transition to electric vehicles: Observed health and air quality co-benefits”. Authors were; Erika Garcia, Jill Johnston, Rob McConnell, Lawrence Palinkas, and Sandrah P. Eckel. In previous episodes, we have spoken about air quality in the urban environment and some of the strategies to mitigate this, including transitioning to electric vehicles. In this study, the authors looked at whether respiratory health and air quality co-benefits are already noticeable at the rela...2023-10-1617 min
Preventive ProsElectric Vehicle Adoption with Sandrah Eckel, PhDSandrah Eckel, PhD is an associate professor of population and public health sciences, and director of the PhD in Biostatistics program. Her latest research documents the actual impact of electric vehicle adoption in the first study to use real-world data to link electric cars, air pollution and health. Leveraging publicly available datasets, the researchers analyzed a “natural experiment” occurring in California as residents in the state rapidly transitioned to electric cars, or light-duty zero emissions vehicles (ZEVs).Read the storyLearn more about this episode and others at keck.usc.edu/pphs/podc...2023-04-0407 min
Thorax podcastAir Pollution affects Lung Cancer SurvivalPatients exposed to air pollution after diagnosis of lung cancer have shorter survival, in particular those patients with early-stage non-small cell cancers (specially adenocarcinomas), according to a study published by Thorax and conducted by researchers from the Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California.
The first study of this kind was based on a population of over 300 thousand patients with newly diagnosed lung cancer over more than two decades.
In this podcast, Dr Jaime Hart, from the Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and author of the Thorax editorial about this st...2016-08-0505 min
Thorax PodcastAir Pollution affects Lung Cancer SurvivalPatients exposed to air pollution after diagnosis of lung cancer have shorter survival, in particular those patients with early-stage non-small cell cancers (specially adenocarcinomas), according to a study published by Thorax and conducted by researchers from the Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California.
The first study of this kind was based on a population of over 300 thousand patients with newly diagnosed lung cancer over more than two decades.
In this podcast, Dr Jaime Hart, from the Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and author of the Thorax editorial about this st...2016-07-2505 min