Environmental changes and their impact on human behaviour - Case study of the incidence of skin cancer

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139788" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139788</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139788" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139788</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Environmental changes and their impact on human behaviour - Case study of the incidence of skin cancer

Original language description

Climatological research over the past two decades makes it clear that the Earth&apos;s climate will change. Climatechange has many, mostly adverse, effects on the human health. Environmental anthropogenic changes representsignificant health risks including factors that may increase probability and seriousness of skin cancer diseases.There are many scientific studies on skin cancer but only a few of them are focused on environment changesand their influence on the behaviour of humans, which may lead to skin cancer. The goal of the research wasto analyse environment changes in the city of Brno (Czech Republic) and their influence on the behaviour of peo-ple and some skin diseases. A research hypothesis was set up that total increase in the incidence of skin diseaseswould be monitored. 1757 patients aged 25-65 years participated in the research. The analysis was performedbased on measured (mean annual temperatures, average monthly temperatures, ultraviolet index values, andnumbers of sunny days and sunny hours) data in 2011-2019. In order to monitor the trend, temperature datafrom 1961 to 2019 were evaluated too. The analysed data indicate that the trend of average monthly and annualtemperatures observed was increasing in recent years. Moreover, based on data obtained from the analyseddoctor&apos;s office it was found out that the incidence of skin diseases increased in the studied period. The main rea-sons to increase include excessive exposure to sun, extended average age of the population, ozone layer deple-tion, climatic and weather changes, increased migration and behaviour of people.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20701 - Environmental and geological engineering, geotechnics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Science of the Total Environment

ISSN

0048-9697

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

738

Issue of the periodical within the volume

October

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

139788

UT code for WoS article

000560045500014

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85086068564