Every year, 4,000 Dutch people die as a result of their work. A large proportion of these cases are due to hazardous substances exposure. How can we prevent work-related illnesses due to exposures?
Read moreAn interview with Jeroen Lakerveld in NRC about the project OBCT, Obesity: Biological, socioCultural and environmental risk Trajectories. Simply put, the researchers look at groups of people with different backgrounds in different places. Why does one person become overweight and another not?
Read moreAir pollution is harmful to health. Recent research shows that residents of the Netherlands with a migration background are more often exposed to higher concentrations of air pollution than residents without a migration background. This is the conclusion reached by researchers from UMC Utrecht from their analysis of air pollution concentrations at all residential addresses in the Netherlands.
Read moreThe environment we live in has a dominant impact on our health. It explains an estimated seventy percent of the chronic disease burden. Where we live, what we eat, how much we exercise, the air we breathe and whom we associate with; all of these environmental factors play a role. The combination of these factors over the life course is called the exposome. There is general (scientific) consensus that understanding more about the exposome will help explain the current burden of disease and that it provides entry points for prevention and ...
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