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DOI	10.1038/s41893-021-00774-8
	Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill
	Huynh B.Q.; Kwong L.H.; Kiang M.V.; Chin E.T.; Mohareb A.M.; Jumaan A.O.; Basu S.; Geldsetzer P.; Karaki F.M.; Rehkopf D.H.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	2398-9629
起始页码	1084
结束页码	1091
卷号	4 期号:12
英文摘要	The possibility of a massive oil spill in the Red Sea is increasingly likely. The Safer, a deteriorating oil tanker containing 1.1 million barrels of oil, has been deserted near the coast of Yemen since 2015 and threatens environmental catastrophe to a country presently in a humanitarian crisis. Here, we model the immediate public health impacts of a simulated spill. We estimate that all of Yemen’s imported fuel through its key Red Sea ports would be disrupted and that the anticipated spill could disrupt clean-water supply equivalent to the daily use of 9.0–9.9 million people, food supply for 5.7–8.4 million people and 93–100% of Yemen’s Red Sea fisheries. We also estimate an increased risk of cardiovascular hospitalization from pollution ranging from 5.8 to 42.0% over the duration of the spill. The spill and its potentially disastrous impacts remain entirely preventable through offloading the oil. Our results stress the need for urgent action to avert this looming disaster. © 2021, The Author(s).
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Disasters; Food supply; Oils and fats; Public health; Risk perception; Water supply; Clean water supply; Daily use; Environmental catastrophe; Health impact; Red sea; Sea ports; Oil spills
来源期刊	Nature Sustainability
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/249698
作者单位	Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States; Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States; Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States; Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States; Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation, Mercer Island, WA, United States; Center for Primary Care, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine, Stanford Univers...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Huynh B.Q.,Kwong L.H.,Kiang M.V.,et al. Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill[J],2021,4(12).
APA	Huynh B.Q..,Kwong L.H..,Kiang M.V..,Chin E.T..,Mohareb A.M..,...&Rehkopf D.H..(2021).Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill.Nature Sustainability,4(12).
MLA	Huynh B.Q.,et al."Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill".Nature Sustainability 4.12(2021).