{"title":"On the contextualisation of decent living standards: a call for epistemic and institutional inclusion.","authors":"Jeadran N Malagón-Rojas","doi":"10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101315","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48548,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Planetary Health","volume":" ","pages":"101315"},"PeriodicalIF":21.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sagan Friant, Janine Mistrick, Angela D Luis, Christina Harden, David Simons, Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet, Rory Gibb, Natalia Grube, Heikki Henttonen, Natalie Imirizian, Lina Moses, George H Perry, David Redding, Nils Chr Stenseth, Kurt Vandegrift, Ottar N Bjornstad, Andy Dobson, James O Lloyd-Smith, Peter J Hudson
{"title":"Reducing the threats of rodent-borne zoonoses requires an understanding and leveraging of three key pillars: disease ecology, synanthropy, and rodentation.","authors":"Sagan Friant, Janine Mistrick, Angela D Luis, Christina Harden, David Simons, Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet, Rory Gibb, Natalia Grube, Heikki Henttonen, Natalie Imirizian, Lina Moses, George H Perry, David Redding, Nils Chr Stenseth, Kurt Vandegrift, Ottar N Bjornstad, Andy Dobson, James O Lloyd-Smith, Peter J Hudson","doi":"10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101300","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rodents have co-existed with humans for centuries, and frequently exchange pathogens. Historically, rodent-driven plague outbreaks scoured the Old World, resulting in substantial human mortality. Although such pandemics have not occurred for centuries, serious threats from rodent-borne infections, such as the global emergence of mpox, still exist. Moreover, endemic and emerging rodent infections continue to cause substantial human morbidity and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries. Efforts by the medical community to control rodent-borne zoonoses primarily focus on treating or preventing symptoms in humans using biomedical interventions (eg, vaccination). Such approaches are geared towards preparedness and response but are insufficient for prevention. In this Personal View, we identify three key pillars that drive rodent-borne zoonotic spillover: ecology of rodent infections; use of human habitation by rodents (synanthropy); and the influence of humans on the ecological proliferation of rodents in our landscape (rodentation). The challenge is to leverage these pillars as entry points for interventions, to prevent spillover and reduce disease burden. Given shortcomings of rodent culling, we advocate for integrated countermeasures that are socially and ecologically grounded, apply systems thinking, and leverage emerging technologies to prevent spillover driven by persistent human-rodent interactions and global change.</p>","PeriodicalId":48548,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Planetary Health","volume":" ","pages":"101300"},"PeriodicalIF":21.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Queering the framework of women's food environments: insights from the Philippines.","authors":"Rowalt Alibudbud","doi":"10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101311","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48548,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Planetary Health","volume":" ","pages":"101311"},"PeriodicalIF":21.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the WEIRDo neoliberal policies that protect free markets over the planet and its people.","authors":"Frederic Basso, Torben Trapp","doi":"10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101307","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48548,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Planetary Health","volume":" ","pages":"101307"},"PeriodicalIF":21.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144856802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marina Treskova, Jan C Semenza, Cristina Arnés-Sanz, Tareq Al-Ahdal, Wanda Markotter, Reina S Sikkema, Joacim Rocklöv
{"title":"Climate change and pandemics: a call for action.","authors":"Marina Treskova, Jan C Semenza, Cristina Arnés-Sanz, Tareq Al-Ahdal, Wanda Markotter, Reina S Sikkema, Joacim Rocklöv","doi":"10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101302","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48548,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Planetary Health","volume":" ","pages":"101302"},"PeriodicalIF":21.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144856801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna Roe Rasmussen MD , Prof Michael Zwicky Hauschild PhD , Prof Stig Brorson MD PhD
{"title":"Environmentally sustainable health care: the opportunities and challenges of life cycle assessments","authors":"Anna Roe Rasmussen MD , Prof Michael Zwicky Hauschild PhD , Prof Stig Brorson MD PhD","doi":"10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101294","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101294","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The health-care sector is a substantial contributor to climate change. To address this global issue, more than 120 countries committed to creating environmentally sustainable health systems at the COP28 UN Climate Change Conference held in November, 2023. Sustainability is thus becoming increasingly important for clinical practice. Life cycle assessments quantify the environmental sustainability of systems, products, and processes such as medical interventions. In this Personal View, we explain the fundamental concepts and principles of the methodology in the context of health care, intended for readers new to the field. The opportunities and challenges of applying this methodology to the delivery of health care are also discussed, as sustainability will become an important consideration in clinical decision making.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48548,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Planetary Health","volume":"9 8","pages":"Article 101294"},"PeriodicalIF":21.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144876062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cheng He PhD , Yixiang Zhu MS , Jovine Bachwenkizi PhD , Prof Renjie Chen PhD , Prof Haidong Kan PhD , Prof Wafaie W Fawzi MBBS DrPH
{"title":"Assessment of heatwave impacts on child feeding practices across 36 low-income and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional analysis","authors":"Cheng He PhD , Yixiang Zhu MS , Jovine Bachwenkizi PhD , Prof Renjie Chen PhD , Prof Haidong Kan PhD , Prof Wafaie W Fawzi MBBS DrPH","doi":"10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.06.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.06.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Optimal feeding practices during the first 2 years of life are vital for child survival and growth. Current nutrition programmes in low-income and middle-income countries focus primarily on long-term dietary improvement, overlooking the acute challenges that heatwaves present to daily feeding practices in already nutritionally vulnerable populations.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>By using the Demographic and Health Surveys data, we analysed data from the youngest child aged 6–23 months (including both infants aged 6–11 months and young children aged 12–23 months) in 293 137 households across 36 low-income and middle-income countries from 2000 to 2019. Our data came from mothers’ 24-h dietary recall interviews about what foods they fed their youngest child on the previous day and night. Child feeding indicators included minimum dietary diversity (MDD), minimum meal frequency (MMF), and minimum acceptable diet (MAD), following WHO standards. Heatwave exposure was defined using location-specific temperature thresholds (92·5th, 95th, and 97·5th percentiles) with different duration criteria (≥2 or ≥3 consecutive days). Mixed-effects logistic regression models with distributed lag model frameworks were adopted to examine the cumulative effects of heatwaves over 14 days, adjusting for potential confounders.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>Heatwaves significantly disrupted feeding practices among children aged 6–23 months, with the strongest effects observed on the risk of not achieving MDD (odds ratio [OR] for not meeting MDD: 6·19 [95% CI 5·46–7·16] for 3-day heatwaves at 95th percentile threshold). More severe heatwaves additionally compromised the likelihood of achieving adequate meal frequency (OR for not meeting MMF: 2·78 [2·36–3·37] at 97·5th percentile), ultimately affecting children's ability to receive a minimum acceptable diet (OR for not meeting MAD: 4·66 [3·60–6·62]). These effects persisted up to 2 weeks post-exposure and showed strong negative impacts on consumption of nutrient-rich foods (OR 5·82 [4·44–7·65] for vegetables and vitamin A-rich fruits). Heightened vulnerability to inadequate feeding practices was observed in rural areas, low-income households, families with multiple young children, and those lacking cooling infrastructure (refrigerator or air conditioning), with ORs consistently higher than in their counterpart groups.</div></div><div><h3>Interpretation</h3><div>Our findings reveal that heatwaves rapidly disrupt child feeding practices, and these disruptions continue for up to 2 weeks. This evidence calls for urgent integration of short-term heat adaptation strategies within existing long-term nutrition programmes, particularly for access to nutrient-rich foods. Improving access to basic cooling facilities, especially in vulnerable communities, is vital for safeguarding child nutrition as global temperatures rise.</div></div><div><h3>Funding</h3><div>None.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48548,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Planetary Health","volume":"9 8","pages":"Article 101281"},"PeriodicalIF":21.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144718915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Henk van den Berg PhD , Prof Hilma R Amwele PhD , Prof Basil D Brooke PhD , Lina E Fortelius MSc , Tanu Jain MD , Prof S H P Parakrama Karunaratne PhD , Nosiku S Munyinda PhD , Prof Yasmin Rubio-Palis PhD , Prof Rajpal S Yadav PhD , Prof Immo Kleinschmidt PhD
{"title":"DDT: last mile in the global phase-out of its use for disease vector control?","authors":"Henk van den Berg PhD , Prof Hilma R Amwele PhD , Prof Basil D Brooke PhD , Lina E Fortelius MSc , Tanu Jain MD , Prof S H P Parakrama Karunaratne PhD , Nosiku S Munyinda PhD , Prof Yasmin Rubio-Palis PhD , Prof Rajpal S Yadav PhD , Prof Immo Kleinschmidt PhD","doi":"10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.06.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.06.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), one of the persistent organic pollutants to be phased out globally under the Stockholm Convention, still continues to be used in some countries as an insecticide for malaria vector control. The global production and use of DDT has reduced substantially over the last 8 years, and the number of alternative insecticides for vector control has increased steadily, suggesting that a global phase-out of DDT is within reach. Only three countries, India, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, were still using DDT in 2023, and a few other countries are keeping the option open of using DDT for emergency response. The main challenges in the global elimination of DDT are that most of the alternative insecticides are less affordable compared with DDT and that the global progress in malaria control and elimination has stagnated. Consultation meetings with countries that intend to use DDT have enabled a sharing of experiences and challenges in phasing out DDT. This Personal View provides recommendations to attain a global phase-out of DDT and to address the problem of disposal of obsolete stocks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48548,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Planetary Health","volume":"9 8","pages":"Article 101283"},"PeriodicalIF":21.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144676129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}