22 papers
Occupational and environmental health explores how our workplaces and surroundings shape our well-being, from the air we breathe to the chemicals we encounter daily. This vital field investigates the hidden risks of modern life, aiming to prevent illness before it starts by understanding the complex links between our environment and our bodies.
At Gist.Science, we track every new preprint in this category from medRxiv to ensure you stay informed on the latest research. We process each study to provide both clear, plain-language explanations and detailed technical summaries, making cutting-edge science accessible without losing essential nuance.
Below are the latest papers in occupational and environmental health, offering fresh insights into how we can build safer, healthier futures for everyone.
This paper outlines the multidimensional framework of the BEACON study, which integrates air quality data, human and wildlife biomonitoring, veterinary surveys, and community engagement to assess the environmental and health impacts of petrochemical emissions in Calvert City, Kentucky.
This cross-sectional study of manual laborers in Pakistan reveals that those exhibiting signs of scapholunate instability demonstrate significantly reduced grip force, abnormal wrist ulnar deviation, and compensatory muscle hyperactivation during dynamic gripping, with occupational exposure duration and specific biomechanical loading patterns serving as key predictors of ligament compromise.
This study utilizing NHANES 2005-2010 data demonstrates that a mixture of seven consumer-product chemical biomarkers is collectively associated with systemic inflammation, with monocyclohexyl phthalate showing the most robust and consistent positive link, thereby supporting a shift toward mixture-based risk assessment frameworks for consumer product safety.
This study demonstrates the operational feasibility and public health utility of multi-pathogen wastewater surveillance at the 2025 African Nations Championship in Uganda, showing how real-time detection of diverse enteric and respiratory pathogens, including Mpox, can effectively guide targeted interventions and strengthen epidemic preparedness in low-resource mass gathering settings.
This systematic review of 2,910 studies reveals that while environmental factors like temperature and land cover exhibit non-linear associations with human SFTS cases, critical gaps remain in understanding their specific impacts on vectors and reservoirs, necessitating future One Health research that integrates mechanistic modeling and transboundary surveillance to address these ecological complexities.
This study employs data-driven clustering of job-specific indicators to identify distinct occupational risk profiles for infectious disease transmission in the Philippines, revealing a socioeconomic gradient where lower-income roles face higher exposure risks and offering a framework for targeted public health interventions.
This study introduces a multi-criteria geospatial framework utilizing Analytic Hierarchy Process and Geometric Fuzzy AHP weighting to reveal that while agricultural incident frequency in the U.S. Midwest is concentrated in northwestern Iowa, severity-weighted risk extends more broadly, thereby offering a superior evidence-based approach for targeting safety interventions and emergency medical planning compared to traditional frequency-only assessments.
This study utilizes a comprehensive NHTSA dataset to demonstrate that ensemble machine learning models, particularly HistGBRT, achieve exceptional accuracy in predicting traffic accident injury severity—including perfect classification of fatal cases—while leveraging SHAP analysis to provide both global risk factor insights and local, instance-specific explanations for actionable traffic safety decision-making.
This cross-sectional study of 201 self-diagnosed farmers and ranchers across 26 states characterizes the unique symptom profiles and diagnostic challenges of Alpha-gal syndrome in agricultural workers, highlighting the need for improved education and support for this high-risk population.
This mixed-methods study of 325 UK police officers reveals that the end-of-career transition is often marked by a breach of the psychological contract and feelings of institutional abandonment, prompting recommendations for holistic post-service welfare and structured resettlement models to better support leavers.