Journal article : Review
Interactions between the physical and social environments with adverse pregnancy events related to placental disorders - a scoping review
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BACKGROUND:
Due to different social and physical environments across Africa, understanding how these environments differ in interacting with placental disorders will play an important role in developing effective interventions.
METHODS:
A scoping review was conducted, to identify current knowledge on interactions between the physical and social environment and the incidence of placental disease in Africa.
RESULTS:
Heavy metals were said to be harmful when environmental concentrations are beyond critical limits. Education level, maternal age, attendance of antenatal care and parity were the most investigated social determinants.
CONCLUSIONS:
More evidence is needed to determine the relationships between the environment and placental function in Africa. The results show that understanding the nature of the relationship between social determinants of health (SDH) and placental health outcomes plays a pivotal role in understanding the risk in the heterogenous communities in Africa.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.3390/ijerph17155421
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- Publisher:
- MDPI
- Journal:
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health More from this journal
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 15
- Article number:
- 5421
- Publication date:
- 2020-07-28
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-07-22
- DOI:
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1660-4601
- ISSN:
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1661-7827
- Pmid:
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32731379
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English
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Review
- Pubs id:
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1124983
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pubs:1124983
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2020-10-21
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- Dube et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- ©2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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