Y. Mezhuev, O. Sizova, M. Stenkina, R. Alekperov, A. Varankin, I. Vorobev, Y. Korshak, M. Shtilman
{"title":"Biomaterials based on nanosized forms of polyconjugated systems","authors":"Y. Mezhuev, O. Sizova, M. Stenkina, R. Alekperov, A. Varankin, I. Vorobev, Y. Korshak, M. Shtilman","doi":"10.18332/pht/142042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18332/pht/142042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20841,"journal":{"name":"Public Health Toxicology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89992506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synergy of antibacterial effect of copper and silver nanoparticles with different functionalizations","authors":"G. Vasiliev, Akane Kubo, O. Bondarenko","doi":"10.18332/pht/142325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18332/pht/142325","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20841,"journal":{"name":"Public Health Toxicology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80118820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Gileva, A. V. Yagolovich, M. Gasparian, L. Kurbanova, D. Trushina, E. Markvicheva
{"title":"Polyelectrolyte multilayer capsules modified with antitumor cytokine DR5-B and loaded with doxorubicin for targeted drug delivery to tumor cells","authors":"A. Gileva, A. V. Yagolovich, M. Gasparian, L. Kurbanova, D. Trushina, E. Markvicheva","doi":"10.18332/pht/142136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18332/pht/142136","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20841,"journal":{"name":"Public Health Toxicology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89272184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anamika Anil, Sulthana Sharafudeen, A. Krishna, R. Rajendran, J. James, Suneesh Kuruvilla, S. Ramanarayanan
INTRODUCTION The current global pandemic of COVID-19 is an international threat. A safe and effective vaccine for COVID-19 infection has been on the wish list of healthcare agencies across the globe since the onset of the pandemic. As the process of development of vaccine demands clinical trials across various phases for multiple checks concerning its safety, potency, and efficacy, there is an inherent delay in its launch. Considering the immediate need for global vaccination, the currently administered vaccines have been developed with a short period of testing and hence is a matter of concern among the population. Thus, this study was conducted to assess the acceptance and concerns regarding the vaccinations in the Indian state of Kerala. METHODS The study was a cross-sectional questionnairebased survey conducted online. The target population was individuals aged ≥18 years. The questionnaire was divided into two parts. The first part consisted of questions on personal data such as age, gender, education level, and occupation. The second part consisted of 10 questions to assess the willingness and concerns regarding vaccination for COVID-19 infection. RESULTS The final sample size comprised 314 participants. Over 92% indicated that they were aware of the vaccination guidelines. About 42% reported to have received knowledge about vaccination through printed media and 55% through social media. Among the 84% who were willing to take vaccination or already vaccinated, 39% expressed their willingness to get vaccinated due to their trust in the government’s awareness campaigns. Among 16% unwilling to take the vaccine, 86% were anxious about the side effects/ adverse reactions of the vaccine, and 56% were anxious regarding the effectiveness of the vaccine. CONCLUSIONS The study reveals a good level of acceptance regarding vaccination acceptance among the population studied. The predominant concerns regarding the vaccine included adverse reactions and efficacy. The study population demonstrated a positive attitude towards vaccination.
{"title":"Acceptance and concerns regarding COVID-19 vaccine in Kerala, India","authors":"Anamika Anil, Sulthana Sharafudeen, A. Krishna, R. Rajendran, J. James, Suneesh Kuruvilla, S. Ramanarayanan","doi":"10.18332/pht/141976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18332/pht/141976","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION The current global pandemic of COVID-19 is an international threat. A safe and effective vaccine for COVID-19 infection has been on the wish list of healthcare agencies across the globe since the onset of the pandemic. As the process of development of vaccine demands clinical trials across various phases for multiple checks concerning its safety, potency, and efficacy, there is an inherent delay in its launch. Considering the immediate need for global vaccination, the currently administered vaccines have been developed with a short period of testing and hence is a matter of concern among the population. Thus, this study was conducted to assess the acceptance and concerns regarding the vaccinations in the Indian state of Kerala. METHODS The study was a cross-sectional questionnairebased survey conducted online. The target population was individuals aged ≥18 years. The questionnaire was divided into two parts. The first part consisted of questions on personal data such as age, gender, education level, and occupation. The second part consisted of 10 questions to assess the willingness and concerns regarding vaccination for COVID-19 infection. RESULTS The final sample size comprised 314 participants. Over 92% indicated that they were aware of the vaccination guidelines. About 42% reported to have received knowledge about vaccination through printed media and 55% through social media. Among the 84% who were willing to take vaccination or already vaccinated, 39% expressed their willingness to get vaccinated due to their trust in the government’s awareness campaigns. Among 16% unwilling to take the vaccine, 86% were anxious about the side effects/ adverse reactions of the vaccine, and 56% were anxious regarding the effectiveness of the vaccine. CONCLUSIONS The study reveals a good level of acceptance regarding vaccination acceptance among the population studied. The predominant concerns regarding the vaccine included adverse reactions and efficacy. The study population demonstrated a positive attitude towards vaccination.","PeriodicalId":20841,"journal":{"name":"Public Health Toxicology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78268385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines practical epidemiology principles related to the design and implementation of web surveys. Six practice-oriented items are critically examined: 1) The study question; 2) The target population; 3) Study population needed; 4) Sampling or selecting the participants in a representative manner; 5) Sending the survey invitations in a manner that is efficient, safe, and mitigates bias; and 6) Assessing and enhancing the external validity of collected data. Clearly articulating the study’s purpose (including whether there is an intent to create generalizable knowledge) influences the sampling approach: probabilistic or non-probabilistic. Similarly, properly defining the study population (people, place and time) prevents overgeneralization of study findings. Adjustments to sample size may be needed to address different real-world complexities, including multi-purpose surveys with different (possibly un-related outcomes), multiple target populations, subgroup analyses, and cluster sampling. When the sample is being drawn from a sampling frame, efforts must be made to ensure that the frame is complete, current, and correct to reduce under-sampling. The choice of environment in which data collection is hosted is critical; practical considerations include data volume, variety, vulnerability, and the software’s capabilities and cost. Although web surveys, in general, are becoming increasingly easier to conduct, good web surveys in contrast are becoming increasingly harder to undertake. Careful consideration should be given to sampling and nonsampling sources of error when designing web surveys to ensure validity and reliability.
{"title":"Methodological considerations for the design and implementation of reliable and valid web surveys","authors":"I. Agaku","doi":"10.18332/pht/141977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18332/pht/141977","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines practical epidemiology principles related to the design and implementation of web surveys. Six practice-oriented items are critically examined: 1) The study question; 2) The target population; 3) Study population needed; 4) Sampling or selecting the participants in a representative manner; 5) Sending the survey invitations in a manner that is efficient, safe, and mitigates bias; and 6) Assessing and enhancing the external validity of collected data. Clearly articulating the study’s purpose (including whether there is an intent to create generalizable knowledge) influences the sampling approach: probabilistic or non-probabilistic. Similarly, properly defining the study population (people, place and time) prevents overgeneralization of study findings. Adjustments to sample size may be needed to address different real-world complexities, including multi-purpose surveys with different (possibly un-related outcomes), multiple target populations, subgroup analyses, and cluster sampling. When the sample is being drawn from a sampling frame, efforts must be made to ensure that the frame is complete, current, and correct to reduce under-sampling. The choice of environment in which data collection is hosted is critical; practical considerations include data volume, variety, vulnerability, and the software’s capabilities and cost. Although web surveys, in general, are becoming increasingly easier to conduct, good web surveys in contrast are becoming increasingly harder to undertake. Careful consideration should be given to sampling and nonsampling sources of error when designing web surveys to ensure validity and reliability.","PeriodicalId":20841,"journal":{"name":"Public Health Toxicology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79600829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Fedorova, K. Moiseenko, O. Savinova, O. Glazunova, S. Eremin
{"title":"Biotransformation of phthalates by basidiomycete fungi from different ecophysiological groups","authors":"T. Fedorova, K. Moiseenko, O. Savinova, O. Glazunova, S. Eremin","doi":"10.18332/pht/142008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18332/pht/142008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20841,"journal":{"name":"Public Health Toxicology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89416337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandros Karampetsos, D. Efthymiou, Effrosyni Griva, C. Mesiari, Andrey V. Severin, E. Vassilopoulou
INTRODUCTION Obesity, unhealthy eating habits and disordered eating behavior affect physiology and mental Visual arts, such as painting, have been shown beneficial in psychotherapy and stress-related disease management. Their impact on shaping eating habits and body image, and their possible use as a tool in health education for young people has not been thoroughly researched. METHODS In this review, significant paintings from the 15th century until the present, depicting eating habits and body image through the centuries are presented in the light of their capacity to transfer information about the shaping of eating habits and body ideals. The current review was performed under the auspices of the Hellenic Center of Education & Treatment of Eating Disorders (KEADD). RESULTS Paintings constitute a useful vehicle for capturing the changing eating habits according to the sociopolitical status of each era and the perceptions/emotions related to foods. Therein, the foods may be recognized as healthy or unhealthy, rich or poor, and the body shape perceived as beautiful, attractive, or ugly, as the concepts of beauty change over time. CONCLUSIONS The art of painting is a promising nutritional educational tool, serving as an agent for the promotion of a healthy body image. It can be utilized in imaginative school health education projects.
{"title":"Eating habits and body ideals from the Renaissance period to the present: Perspectives from paintings on\u0000nutrition and body image","authors":"Alexandros Karampetsos, D. Efthymiou, Effrosyni Griva, C. Mesiari, Andrey V. Severin, E. Vassilopoulou","doi":"10.18332/pht/139905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18332/pht/139905","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION Obesity, unhealthy eating habits and disordered eating behavior affect physiology and mental Visual arts, such as painting, have been shown beneficial in psychotherapy and stress-related disease management. Their impact on shaping eating habits and body image, and their possible use as a tool in health education for young people has not been thoroughly researched. METHODS In this review, significant paintings from the 15th century until the present, depicting eating habits and body image through the centuries are presented in the light of their capacity to transfer information about the shaping of eating habits and body ideals. The current review was performed under the auspices of the Hellenic Center of Education & Treatment of Eating Disorders (KEADD). RESULTS Paintings constitute a useful vehicle for capturing the changing eating habits according to the sociopolitical status of each era and the perceptions/emotions related to foods. Therein, the foods may be recognized as healthy or unhealthy, rich or poor, and the body shape perceived as beautiful, attractive, or ugly, as the concepts of beauty change over time. CONCLUSIONS The art of painting is a promising nutritional educational tool, serving as an agent for the promotion of a healthy body image. It can be utilized in imaginative school health education projects.","PeriodicalId":20841,"journal":{"name":"Public Health Toxicology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90845799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We are proud to announce the creation of the new journal Public Health and Toxicology. Public Health and Toxicology is a new double-blind peer-reviewed, open access, online journal that welcomes integrated epidemiological, clinical, animal and cellular biological research to provide the scientific foundation in support of hazard identification and risk assessment today. Here at Public Health and Toxicology, we focus on publishing innovative international peer-reviewed research on all aspects of toxicology that can affect directly and indirectly the public from exposure to chemical and/or biological agents (environmental toxicology) and actions to protect public health and the environment through subsequent recommendations to reduce any resulting health effects (regulatory toxicology), including populationbased research and the evaluation of environmental risk throughout the lifespan including prenatal and postnatal development, childhood, adulthood and high-risk groups, and the impact on biological systems and the causes underlying the variability in susceptibility of people to exposures. Most importantly, Public Health and Toxicology is also highly interested in the recent real life risk simulation (RLRS) concept that plays a key role in chronic exposure paradigms. Public Health and Toxicology is published by European Publishing, an Open Access publishing firm supported by the European Union Regional Development Fund, Smart Specialization strategy (RIS3) and based within the Science and Technology Park of Crete, Greece. The journal adheres to the COPE Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, and the ICMJE’s Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals. Due to recent public health emergencies, the journal also welcomes research on public health emergency preparedness related to environmental accidents and epidemics, such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, including natural and man-made disasters, that assesses this exposure and outcome associations, from a public health toxicology perspective. The need to enhance and further develop methods and approaches for evaluating toxicology issues cannot be overstated. Therefore, we welcome relevant manuscripts to Public Health and Toxicology that broaden these views and further enhance the discipline of Public Health and Toxicologgy.
{"title":"Announcing the launching of the new journal Public Health and Toxicology","authors":"A. Tsatsakis, A. Vardavas","doi":"10.18332/pht/137797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18332/pht/137797","url":null,"abstract":"We are proud to announce the creation of the new journal Public Health and Toxicology. Public Health and Toxicology is a new double-blind peer-reviewed, open access, online journal that welcomes integrated epidemiological, clinical, animal and cellular biological research to provide the scientific foundation in support of hazard identification and risk assessment today. Here at Public Health and Toxicology, we focus on publishing innovative international peer-reviewed research on all aspects of toxicology that can affect directly and indirectly the public from exposure to chemical and/or biological agents (environmental toxicology) and actions to protect public health and the environment through subsequent recommendations to reduce any resulting health effects (regulatory toxicology), including populationbased research and the evaluation of environmental risk throughout the lifespan including prenatal and postnatal development, childhood, adulthood and high-risk groups, and the impact on biological systems and the causes underlying the variability in susceptibility of people to exposures. Most importantly, Public Health and Toxicology is also highly interested in the recent real life risk simulation (RLRS) concept that plays a key role in chronic exposure paradigms. Public Health and Toxicology is published by European Publishing, an Open Access publishing firm supported by the European Union Regional Development Fund, Smart Specialization strategy (RIS3) and based within the Science and Technology Park of Crete, Greece. The journal adheres to the COPE Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, and the ICMJE’s Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals. Due to recent public health emergencies, the journal also welcomes research on public health emergency preparedness related to environmental accidents and epidemics, such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, including natural and man-made disasters, that assesses this exposure and outcome associations, from a public health toxicology perspective. The need to enhance and further develop methods and approaches for evaluating toxicology issues cannot be overstated. Therefore, we welcome relevant manuscripts to Public Health and Toxicology that broaden these views and further enhance the discipline of Public Health and Toxicologgy.","PeriodicalId":20841,"journal":{"name":"Public Health Toxicology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77297916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Petrakis, T. Nikolouzakis, V. Karzi, A. Vardavas, C. Vardavas, A. Tsatsakis
The last 10 years, despite global scientific and technological progress, there has been an outbreak of chronic diseases, viral epidemics and pandemics, with a significant number of deaths, depletion of health systems and rising healthcare costs, leading to devastating economic, political and social consequences. Here, we describe briefly the human defence system, how environmental factors and mechanisms interfere with it, and the correlation with chronic exposure to environmentally toxic mixtures. Also, we examine the technologies that can increase viral aggression, focusing on the recent COVID-19 pandemic of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
{"title":"The growing anthropogenic immune deficit and the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"D. Petrakis, T. Nikolouzakis, V. Karzi, A. Vardavas, C. Vardavas, A. Tsatsakis","doi":"10.18332/pht/135057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18332/pht/135057","url":null,"abstract":"The last 10 years, despite global scientific and technological progress, there has been an outbreak of chronic diseases, viral epidemics and pandemics, with a significant number of deaths, depletion of health systems and rising healthcare costs, leading to devastating economic, political and social consequences. Here, we describe briefly the human defence system, how environmental factors and mechanisms interfere with it, and the correlation with chronic exposure to environmentally toxic mixtures. Also, we examine the technologies that can increase viral aggression, focusing on the recent COVID-19 pandemic of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.","PeriodicalId":20841,"journal":{"name":"Public Health Toxicology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79794200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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