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Environmental Pollution from Illegal Waste Disposal and Health Effects: A Review on the “Triangle of Death”
The term “triangle of death” was used for the first time by Senior and Mazza in the journal The Lancet Oncology referring to the eastern area of the Campania Region (Southern Italy) which has one of the worst records of illegal waste dumping practices. In the past decades, many studies have focused...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4344663/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25622140 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph120201216 |
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author | Triassi, Maria Alfano, Rossella Illario, Maddalena Nardone, Antonio Caporale, Oreste Montuori, Paolo |
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description | The term “triangle of death” was used for the first time by Senior and Mazza in the journal The Lancet Oncology referring to the eastern area of the Campania Region (Southern Italy) which has one of the worst records of illegal waste dumping practices. In the past decades, many studies have focused on the potential of illegal waste disposal to cause adverse effects on human health in this area. The great heterogeneity in the findings, and the bias in media communication has generated great healthcare doubts, anxieties and alarm. This paper addresses a review of the up-to-date literature on the “triangle of death”, bringing together the available information on the occurrence and severity of health effects related to illegal waste disposal. The Scopus database was searched using the search terms “waste”, “Campania”, “Naples”, “triangle of death” and “human biomonitoring”. Despite the methodological and sampling heterogeneity between the studies, this review examines the evidence from published data concerning cancer incidence, childhood mortality and birth defects, so that the current situation, knowledge gaps and research priorities can be established. The review aims to provide a contribution to the scientific community, and to respond to the concerns of the general population. |
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spelling | pubmed-43446632015-03-18 Environmental Pollution from Illegal Waste Disposal and Health Effects: A Review on the “Triangle of Death” Triassi, Maria Alfano, Rossella Illario, Maddalena Nardone, Antonio Caporale, Oreste Montuori, Paolo Int J Environ Res Public Health Review The term “triangle of death” was used for the first time by Senior and Mazza in the journal The Lancet Oncology referring to the eastern area of the Campania Region (Southern Italy) which has one of the worst records of illegal waste dumping practices. In the past decades, many studies have focused on the potential of illegal waste disposal to cause adverse effects on human health in this area. The great heterogeneity in the findings, and the bias in media communication has generated great healthcare doubts, anxieties and alarm. This paper addresses a review of the up-to-date literature on the “triangle of death”, bringing together the available information on the occurrence and severity of health effects related to illegal waste disposal. The Scopus database was searched using the search terms “waste”, “Campania”, “Naples”, “triangle of death” and “human biomonitoring”. Despite the methodological and sampling heterogeneity between the studies, this review examines the evidence from published data concerning cancer incidence, childhood mortality and birth defects, so that the current situation, knowledge gaps and research priorities can be established. The review aims to provide a contribution to the scientific community, and to respond to the concerns of the general population. MDPI 2015-01-22 2015-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4344663/ /pubmed/25622140 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph120201216 Text en © 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Triassi, Maria Alfano, Rossella Illario, Maddalena Nardone, Antonio Caporale, Oreste Montuori, Paolo Environmental Pollution from Illegal Waste Disposal and Health Effects: A Review on the “Triangle of Death” |
title | Environmental Pollution from Illegal Waste Disposal and Health Effects: A Review on the “Triangle of Death” |
title_full | Environmental Pollution from Illegal Waste Disposal and Health Effects: A Review on the “Triangle of Death” |
title_fullStr | Environmental Pollution from Illegal Waste Disposal and Health Effects: A Review on the “Triangle of Death” |
title_full_unstemmed | Environmental Pollution from Illegal Waste Disposal and Health Effects: A Review on the “Triangle of Death” |
title_short | Environmental Pollution from Illegal Waste Disposal and Health Effects: A Review on the “Triangle of Death” |
title_sort | environmental pollution from illegal waste disposal and health effects: a review on the “triangle of death” |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4344663/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25622140 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph120201216 |
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