The Environmental Health Behaviour (EnviHeB) Lab is composed of a multidisciplinary team of psychologists, sociologists, nutritionists, and statisticians. Research is focused on the promotion of human behaviour with with synergic value for the protection of human health & environment.
Main goals of EnviHeB Lab are: i) To create and systematize evidence about prevalence, determinants and effects of health- and pro-environmental behaviors and habits; ii) To identify determinants of transition(s) from pathogenic to salutogenic behaviours/habits, and vice-versa; iii) To develop and assess the impact of environmental contexts on health-related behaviours, adopting a psychosocial exposomic perspective.
The underlying paradigm of EnviHeB Lab is the Planetary Health, which means that human-animal and human-multilayer-environment interconnections are studied with a systemic approach.
Recent publications:
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) (2024). Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults. Lancet (London, England), S0140-6736(23)02750-2. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02750-2
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents' growth and development. Nature. 2023 Mar;615(7954):874-883. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05772-8
Laguzzi, F., Filippini, T., & Virgolino, A. (2024). Editorial: Dietary acrylamide in human health. Frontiers in Nutrition, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2024.1446690
Virgolino, A. et al. (2022). Lost in transition: a systematic review of the association between unemployment and mental health. Journal of Mental Health, 31(3), pp. 432–444. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2021.2022615
