Focus: Environmental Health: Promoting Health for All Through a Healthy Environment

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Health Promoting

scholarly journals Food Security, Environmental Health, and the Economy in Mexico: Lessons Learned with the COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7470
Author(s):  
Rebeca Monroy-Torres ◽  
Ángela Castillo-Chávez ◽  
Erika Carcaño-Valencia ◽  
Marco Hernández-Luna ◽  
Alex Caldera-Ortega ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Mesh Terms

The COVID-19 pandemic showed an impact mainly on the health of people and the economy of households. The levels of food security in the world’s households, especially in Mexico, have decreased. When people do not have food security, their health is compromised and they have financial problems; on the other hand, environmental deterioration has a link with food security. The purpose of this review is to analysis of the current situation in Mexico of food security, environmental health and economy, the main lessons learned in these areas and their proposals integrating public policies. A review was carried out in the main databases (MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL Plus, Web of Science, CAB Abstracts y PAIS Index) with the following keywords and according to the MeSH terms: Food security, food insecurity, environmental health, public policies, environmental, production, integrating the word COVID-19 in English and Spanish. Only 44.5% of Mexican households presented food security. For food insecurity, 22.6% had moderate and severe food insecurity, while 32.9% had mild insecurity. Food insecurity and the health impacts of environmental origin (waste management during the coronavirus pandemic, water contaminated by bacteria, viruses, and toxins; air pollution) generates impacts on economic activity by not offering food that meets health regulations. Without the application of cost-effective measures and interventions for the prevention and control of patients with obesity, the direct costs for 2023 will amount to 9 million dollars, which worsens the household economy. Despite having laws and policies on the right to food, a healthy environment (water), and opportunities for economic growth, these human rights are not fulfilled. The conclusion is that it is necessary to use a health and agroecological model to promote public policies (health, environment, and economy) that aims to prevent the discussed issues, with multidisciplinary and intersectoral interventions (government, academia, researchers, civil society organizations, industry, and population). This upholds the human right that all people should enjoy an adequate, healthy environment and have access to high-quality food.

Nurses Dedicated to a Healthy Environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Novak
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Practice Education

Nurses are taking a prominent role in promoting environmental health on a national and global level. The Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments is an organization that provides resources for nurses to learn about current environmental health issues and opportunities to participate actively through research, practice, education, and advocacy.

scholarly journals PERAN SERTA MASYARAKAT SEKOLAH DALAM PELAKSANAAN PROGAM USAHA KESEHATAN SEKOLAH DI SMP NEGERI 1 MANADO

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendra Sitepu ◽  
Gustaaf A. E. Ratag ◽  
Iyone T. Siagian
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
School Health ◽  
School Community ◽  
Center Staff ◽  
The Public ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Health Promoting School ◽  
Health Promoting

Abstract: One of the strategic efforts to improve the quality of Indonesian human is education and health efforts, so that these efforts can best be done through educational institutions. School as a venue for the teaching and learning process should be "Health Promoting School", meaning that schools can improve the health of the school citizens. UKS as a vehicle to improve the ability of healthy life and the health of students and create a healthy environment, it has Trias UKS program that includes health education, health care and fostering the life of a healthy school environment. Therefore, the promotion and development UKS as health and education efforts must be carried in an integrated, planned, purposeful and responsible in instilling, grow, develop and lead to live, please, and implement the principles of healthy living in the lives of young people everyday. This study was conducted to determine the school community participation in the implementation of UKS program at SMPN 1 Manado. This research is a qualitative research. The results showed that the role of the public schools and the implementation of UKS program at SMPN 1 Manado has not reached the desired goal, this is due to the lack of coordination between the public schools and the challenges and obstacles that come from within and from outside the school. Implementation of socialization which continue - being so understanding of the UKs be well received is necessary. Mainly from the Health Center staff and institutions - institutions associated with UKS.Keywords: the participation of the school community, UKS, school health, SMP Negeri 1, UKS executiveAbstrak: Salah satu upaya yang strategis untuk meningkatkan kualitas manusia Indonesia adalah upaya pendidikan dan kesehatan, sehingga upaya ini paling tepat dilakukan melalui institusi pendidikan. Sekolah sebagai tempat berlangsungnya proses belajar mengajar harus menjadi “Health Promoting School”, artinya sekolah yang dapat meningkatkan derajat kesehatan warga sekolahnya. UKS sebagai salah satu wahana untuk meningkatkan kemampuan hidup sehat dan derajat kesehatan peserta didik serta menciptakan lingkungan yang sehat, maka program UKS mempunyai Trias UKS yang meliputi pendidikan kesehatan, pelayanan kesehatan dan pembinaan lingkungan kehidupan sekolah yang sehat. Oleh karena itu pembinaan dan pengembangan UKS sebagai upaya pendidikan dan kesehatan harus di laksanakan secara terpadu, berencana, terarah dan bertanggung jawab dalam menanamkan, menumbuhkan, mengembangkan dan membimbing untuk menghayati, menyenangi dan melaksanakan prinsip hidup sehat dalam kehidupan peserta didik sehari-hari. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui peran serta masyarakat sekolah dalam pelaksanaan program UKS di SMP Negeri 1 Manado. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian yang bersifat kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa peran serta masyarakat sekolah dan pelaksanaan program UKS 798Sitepu, Ratag, Siagian: Peran serta masyarakat...di SMP Negeri 1 Manado belum mencapai tujuan yang diinginkan, hal ini dikarenakan kurangnya koordinasi antara masyarakat sekolah dan adanya tantangan dan hambatan yang berasal dari dalam maupun dari luar sekolah. Pelaksanaan sosialisasi yang terus – menerus sehingga pemahaman tentang UKS dapat diterima dengan baik sangatlah perlu dilakukan. Terutama dari petugas Puskesmas dan instansi – instansi yang terkait dengan UKS.Kata kunci: peran serta masyarakat sekolah, UKS, SMP Negeri 1 Manado, pelaksana UKS

scholarly journals Food Security, Environmental Health, and the Economy in Mexico: Lessons Learned with the COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebeca Monroy-Torres PhD ◽  
Erika Carcaño-Valencia ◽  
Marco Hernández-Luna ◽  
Alex Caldera-Ortega ◽  
Alma Serafín- Muñoz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Adequate Food ◽  
Prevention System ◽  
Climate Change Management ◽  
The Right

In Mexico, it is estimated that due to the economic system the overexploitation of natural resources, environmental impacts and health have been generated, with high rates of overweight and obesity. This review analyzes the impacts on food safety, environmental health, and the economy in Mexico before and during the COVID-19 contingency. Derived from the analysis, among the lessons learned we can include: the health contingency due to COVID-19 had negative repercussions on food security, environmental health and the economy, which require the promotion of public policies (health, environment and economy) and migrate to a health prevention system and an agroecological model, which includes multidisciplinary and intersectoral interventions (government, academia, researchers, civil society organizations, business groups and citizens themselves) to reform and enforce the right to enjoy adequate food and a healthy environment. The contingency due to COVID19 has shown us that this must go from an ideology to being a reality and the lessons learned will have to focus on promoting an innovative and ethical culture of generating an economy, with a gender balance, resilience to climate change, management transparent technology and a priority in health and this will lead to progress in the food security of the population.

The Healthy Environment Project: Promoting sustainable change in early childhood education settings

2021 ◽  
pp. 001789692098875
Author(s):  
Charlotte V Farewell ◽  
Emily Maiurro ◽  
Jamie Powers ◽  
Jini Puma
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Environment Change ◽  
Policy System ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Professional Development Training ◽  
Health Promoting

Objective: The Healthy Environment Project (HEP) was designed to improve familiarity with attitudes, confidence and knowledge related to health-promoting best practices, as well as the implementation of health-promoting policy, system and environment best practice change in diverse early childhood education settings. Design: Pre–post study design to assess the outcomes of the HEP intervention. Setting: Early childhood education providers representing 14 centres ( n = 117) and 30 homes ( n = 30) in Colorado, USA. Method: The Policy, System and Environment Change Process, which is an evidence-based strategic planning process based on intervention mapping, was facilitated in a professional development training format in 44 early childhood education settings. Results: Pre–post survey data ( n = 125) suggest that early childhood education providers’ familiarity with, knowledge of, and confidence related to the implementation of health-promoting policy, system and environment change significantly increased after the professional development training ( p < .05). No significant differences in these individual-level constructs were found between centre-based and home-based providers. The HEP also resulted in significant changes in environmental-level constructs; 154 total health-promoting changes (averaging 3.5 changes/setting) were implemented in 44 early childhood education settings. Conclusion: Facilitation of a strategic planning process in a professional development training format resulted in improvements in individual- and environmental-level constructs related to healthy eating and physical activity behaviours and provides a novel way to foster sustainable health-promoting environments in early childhood education centres and homes.

scholarly journals Evaluation of health promoting schools in Makkah city, Saudi Arabia

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 2234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Osman Elamin Bushara ◽  
Mohamed Ganbi ◽  
Mohamed Elqarni ◽  
Abdulaziz Terkstani ◽  
Rakan Lihyani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
School Health ◽  
School Connectedness ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Health Promotion Program ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Health Promoting Schools ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Makkah City ◽  
Health Service System

Background: The study was conducted to evaluate schools that implemented the health promotion program in Makkah city, which were 68 schools, (60%) of them randomly selected for the study.Methods: The seven components of the health promoting schools evaluated through descriptive cross sectional study, concentrating on the implementation activities of each component, and whether this implementation conforming to requested standards.Results: The study clarified that the health education activities scored 80% from the targeted activities in this component, encouragement of healthy behavior achieve the highest requested level, while healthy environment activities were being well implemented as it attained 87%.Conclusions: The study concluded that there were weaknesses in the following components, food and nutritional service, school health and mental service provision, and school connectedness with the surrounding community. The study recommends establishment of health service system for psychological and mental health for students, medical checks for school staff in addition to strengthening the links between health promoting schools and surrounding communities, through organized programs. The study recommends for more researches in order to support implementation of the program. 

scholarly journals MEMBANGUN KESADARAN MASYARAKAT DALAM MENATA LINGKUNGAN YANG ASRI, NYAMAN DAN SEHAT

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Kasih Haryo Basuki ◽  
Novrita Mulya Rosa ◽  
Edward Alfin
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Implementation Phase ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Evaluation Stage ◽  
Preparatory Stage ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Cooperation Partner

Abstrak: Tujuan dari kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini adalah (1) untuk membangun kesadaran masyarakat terhadap kebersihan dan kesehatan lingkungan, (2) meningkatkan pengetahuan masyarakat dalam pengelolaan lingkungan, dan (3) meningkatkan partisipasi masyarakat dalam hal kebersihan dan kesehatan lingkungan sehingga tercipta perilaku hidup dan lingkungan yang bersih, asri, nyaman, dan sehat. Mitra kerjasama kegiatan ini adalah warga Jakarta Selatan dan Jakarta Timur. Metode pelaksanaan pengabdian kepada masyarakat terdiri dari tiga tahap yaitu persiapan, pelaksanaan dan evaluasi. Pada Tahap persiapan, tim pengabdian melakukan pra kunjungan ke tempat Mitra. Tahap Pelaksanaan terdiri dari kegiatan penyuluhan kepada warga tentang pentingnya kebersihan dan kesehatan lingkungan kemudian dilanjutkan dengan aksi lapangan berupa kerjabakti membersihkan lingkungan bersama warga. Tahap Evaluasi dilakukan untuk mengukur tingkat keberhasilan suatu kegiatan yang telah dilakukan. Hasil pengabdian menunjukkan bahwa seluruh warga telah memiliki pemahaman dan perilaku yang peduli lingkungan hidup asri, nyaman, dan sehat.Abstract: The purpose of this community service is (1) to build public awareness on hygiene and environmental health, (2) to increase public knowledge in environmental management, and (3) Increase participation In terms of hygiene and environmental health and thus create a living behavior and a clean, beautiful, comfortable, and healthy environment. The cooperation partner of this activity is the residents of South Jakarta and East Jakarta. The method of implementation of devotion to the community consists of three stages, namely preparation, implementation, and evaluation. At the preparatory stage, the team commits pre-visits to the partner site. The implementation phase consists of counseling activities to citizens about the importance of hygiene and environmental health and then continued with the action field in the form of cooperation to clean the environment with the citizens. The evaluation stage is done to measure the success rate of an activity that has been done. The results show that all citizens have had an understanding and behavior that cares about a beautiful, comfortable, and healthy living environment

scholarly journals Pengaruh Kondisi Kesehatan Lingkungan Terhadap Kepuasan dan Jumlah Kunjungan Pasien di Puskesmas Kota Pekanbaru

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Mailinda Sulistiawati ◽  
Zulkarnaini Zulkarnaini ◽  
Zahtamal Zahtamal
Keyword(s):  
Linear Regression ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Survey Methods ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Coefficient Of Determination ◽  
Patient Visit ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Hygiene Management ◽  
Regression Test ◽  
Health Variable

Given the importance of environmental health at puskesmas in the environmental health care system to create a healthy environment that can provide protection for patients and puskesmas. This study aims to analyze the partial and simultaneous influence between the buildings outside, building in the building, sanitation facilities and hygiene management on environmental health condition, analyze the effect of Puskesmas environment condition to the satisfaction and number of patient visit at Pekanbaru Health Center. This study used survey methods conducted at all public health centers in Pekanbaru City from April to August 2017. The sample size was 20 Puskesmas and 400 patients visited the Puskesmas. The tools and materials used in this research are observation instruments and use checklists and questionnaire interview instruments (questionnaires). The partial simultaneous effect of outbuildings, in-building buildings, sanitation facilities and hygiene management on the health condition of the puskesmas was used multiple regression tests, with the result of correlation of the condition of outsides to 0.321 outbuildings, buildings in 0.834, sanitation facilities 0.876 and cleanliness management 0.640. The direction of positive relationships shows the greater the assessment of the four variables will increasingly make the score of environmental health assessments getting bigger as well. Influence of health condition of environment of puskesmas toward patient satisfaction using multiple linear regression test and the result is 0,669. This shows a strong influence between environment health variable of puskesmas and satisfaction of respondent who come to visit puskesmas. R Square 0,448 or coefficient of determination mean 44,8% satisfaction of respondent can be explained by environment health variable of puskesmas. The influence of health condition of puskesmas on the number of patient visit using simple linear regression test and the result is 0,628. This shows a strong correlation between environment health variables of puskesmas with respondent visit coming to visit puskesmas. R Square 0,394 or coefficient of determination mean 39,4% of respondent visit can be explained by environment health variable of puskesmas while the rest is explained by other cause. It is necessary to increase health promotion and education about the importance of environmental health of puskesmas for the community about the health condition of the environment that fulfill the health requirement and increasing the role of Dinas Kesehatan in supervision of health of puskesmas environment to be better and become the reference of accreditation of puskesmas according to standard from the Ministry of Health RI.

SANITATION IN THE SPACE AGE1

1962 ◽  
Vol 25 (12) ◽  
pp. 386-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. W. Greene
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Industrial Technology ◽  
Space Travel ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
And Training

The classic concepts of environmental sanitation have become an integral part of our way of life in this age. The advent of the space age requires an expansion of these concepts. We are faced today with phenomenal advances in transportation and communication. Are our sanitary surveillance techniques and regulations, basically geared for parochial communities, adequate to maintain the public health in a world served by supersonic carriers? Is our knowledge and training sufficient to meet the demands for ultraclean environments imposed by advances in medicine and industrial technology? We must be ready to consider such new problems as cleaning and disinfecting the hardware and materials being developed for space travel and exploration. We must gain a perspective of the environmental health problems of people confined in sealed capsules for long time periods. We must start thinking about the control of exotic and as yet undiscovered disease agents from other planets, the control of microbial dissemination from our world to others, the logistics of interplanetary quarantine. In addition to all of this, we must continue to provide the inhabitants of this world with a safe, clean and healthy environment.

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