scholarly journals 13.D. Workshop: SDGs in the focus of environmental and health issues

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Environmental And Health Issues ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This workshop is dedicated on SDGs in the focus of environmental and health issues, as very important and actual topic. One of the characteristics of today's societies is the significant availability of modern technologies. Over 5 billion (about 67%) people have a cellphone today. More than 4.5 billion people worldwide use the Internet, close to 60% of the total population. At the same time, one third of the people in the world does not have access to safe drinking water and half of the population does not have access to safe sanitation. The WHO at UN warns of severe inequalities in access to water and hygiene. Air, essential to life, is a leading risk due to ubiquitous pollution and contributes to the global disease burden (7 million deaths per year). Air pollution is a consequence of traffic and industry, but also of demographic trends and other human activities. Food availability reflects global inequality, famine eradication being one of the SDGs. The WHO warns of the urgency. As technology progresses, social inequality grows, the gap widens, and the environment continues to suffer. Furthermore, the social environment in societies is “ruffled” and does not appear to be beneficial toward well-being. New inequalities are emerging in the availability of technology, climate change, education. The achievement reports on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also point out to the need of reviewing individual indicators. According to the Sustainable Development Agenda, one of the goals is to reduce inequalities, and environmental health is faced by several specific goals. The Global Burden of Disease is the most comprehensive effort to date to measure epidemiological levels and trends worldwide. It is the product of a global research collaborative and quantifies the impact of hundreds of diseases, injuries, and risk factors in countries around the world. This workshop will also discuss Urban Health as a Complex System in the light of SDGs. Climate Change, Public Health impacts and the role of the new digital technologies is also important topic which is contributing to SDG3, improving health, to SDG4, allowing to provide distance health education at relatively low cost and to SDG 13, by reducing the CO2 footprint. Community Engagement can both empower vulnerable populations (so reducing inequalities) and identify the prior environmental issues to be addressed. The aim was to search for public health programs using Community Engagement tools in healthy environment building towards achievement of SDGs. Key messages Health professionals are involved in the overall process of transformation necessary to achieve the SDGs. Health professionals should be proactive and contribute to the transformation leading to better health for the environment, and thus for the human population.

Sustainable diets

2011 ◽  
pp. 379-388
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Security ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Health Nutrition ◽  
Individual Behaviour ◽  
The Public ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact

Sustainability and nutrition 380 Sustainable development 382 Food security 383 Climate change and obesity 384 Useful websites and further reading 388 The public health nutrition field has identified a need to encompass the inter-relationship of man with his environment (The Giessen Declaration, 2005). Ecological public health nutrition places nutrition within its wider structural settings including the political, physical, socio-cultural and economic environment that influence individual behaviour and health. As a consequence, it includes the impact of what is eaten on the natural environment as well as the impact of environmental and climate change on all components of food security, i.e. on what food is available, accessible, utilizable and stable (...

scholarly journals Integrating sustainability in professionals’ training in the field of health promotion and prevention

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Lutz ◽  
M Pasche ◽  
K Zürcher
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Health Training ◽  
Public Health Training

Abstract Background Climate change poses a number of threats and challenges to our societies and has direct impacts on human health. Raising awareness and training health professionals to sustainable development represents a major strategy in order to respond to climate challenges. This article describes a teaching experience conducted in the context of a Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in public health at the University of Lausanne, where students have been trained to sustainable development, through theoretical lessons and practical exercises. Objectives The integration of the topic of sustainable development in the teaching of health promotion and prevention to the students of the CAS in public health aimed to foster students' knowledge and competences in relation to this emerging topic. The main objective was to transmit concepts, methods and practical resources allowing them to incorporate sustainability into everyday health promotion and prevention practices. Results Health promotion and sustainable development share common goals and methodologies. The experience of teaching sustainability to public health students shows that these two topics can be easily integrated within a public health training, if teachers provide students with a clear theoretical and methodological framework, allowing them to make the appropriate connections between the two fields. Social determinants of health, intersectorial action and multilevel governance represent key topics that teachers can address with students in order to show the connections between public health and sustainability. Conclusions As stated in the 2019 Lancet Countdown on health and climate change, climate change is both a threat and an opportunity for our societies. While it puts health systems and professionals under considerable pressure, it also represents an opportunity to innovate and transform professional training and practices, and generate new knowledge and know-how. Key messages Training health professionals to sustainable development represents a major strategy to respond to climate change and its health impacts. In order to integrate sustainable development in public health training, teachers should provide students with a clear theoretical and methodological framework.

Evaluation of Industrial Tendency of Sustainable Development in the City of Weifang

2016 ◽  
Vol 851 ◽  
pp. 668-672
Author(s):  
Le Feng Liu ◽  
Chang Jiang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Energy Crisis ◽  
Related Field ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
City Policy ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Climate change and energy crisis has crucial impact on the economic activity and industry, and sustainable development is a solution to our future generation to meet their own need under the impact of climate change and energy crisis. Sustainable development has varies meanings, therefore leads to different responses to this definition. This paper aims to evaluate the industry tendency of sustainable development in Weifang. The evaluation first considers sustainable development situation of Weifang today, and assess the sustainable development industry in that city, and then predicts tendency of future sustainable development, and in the end predicts the customer demand of sustainable development industry. To analysis this, the researchers interview leading expert in the sustainable development industry and review the literature of related field. The paper helps to clarify the sustainable development in the industry of Weifang and help city policy maker to guide the sustainable development.

scholarly journals 3.E. Workshop: The Role of Digital Public Health in the European Climate Pact and Green deal

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (Supplement_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Digital Systems ◽  
World Health ◽  
Director General ◽  
European Climate ◽  
The World ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
The Impact

Abstract   Europe is facing two major structural changes: the climate crisis, having a significant impact on public health, and digitalization of the economy, that could play a role in mitigating climate change and its impacts on public health. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected our lives in many ways including how we see public health, the climate change and has created the conditions for the almost exponential growth for telemedicine and digitalization in healthcare. Underlining that the world is facing an increasing innovation and integration of digital tools to address public health and environmental problems, as the UN Secretary-General and the Director-General of the World Health Organization both declared that we are currently fighting a climate “pandemic” in the same way as we are fighting COVID-19. Digital solutions have been implemented to address COVID-19 and impacted by reducing CO2 emissions and improving quality of life. Digital systems, including Artificial Intelligence, robots and drones, are now changing the paradigm of public health and environment management. Due to the complex nature of the information ecosystem our societies and communities live in, a digital public health approach can be managed to reduce harm to individual, community and population health, support social cohesion and trust in emergency response and interventions to deal with climate change. Digital health could, within 10 years establish a new paradigm in public and environmental health. Public health professionals need urgently to tackle digital health to bridge the gap with others areas of healthcare. During the COVID-19 crisis, national public health authorities have been challenged in the way they communicate with the public, engage with communities in collecting data to improve response, providing the scientific evidence, the day-to-day facts and figures. Likewise, The European Climate Pact provides a space for collectively develop and implement climate solutions. The Climate Pact is an open, inclusive and evolving initiative for climate action through an online platform and citizen dialogues and exchanges, it will foster the link between the digital and green transition. This workshop aims to share the experiences of digital public health interventions with significant impact on climate change mitigation during the pandemic. It will be organised as a round table, starting by setting the scene with an introduction to key digital health concepts and challenges. Each speaker will give a short pitch on how they have experienced the challenge of using digital systems in public health and how they approached its management during the crisis. This will be followed by a panel discussion. Participants will have ample time to ask questions to the panellists. The workshop will end with a summary of a selection of tools participants can use in their own environmental management activities and key take home messages from the panellist will be provided as a conclusion. Key messages Digital Public Health has been establishing evidence on interventions with significant effects on reducing the impact of climate crisis. A Partnership is needed across the health system and society to manage this crisis. European Green Deal and Climate Pact could be used as a roadmap in digital public health.

scholarly journals Development of the Global Mycetoma Working Group

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita M Traxler ◽  
Karlyn D Beer ◽  
David D Blaney ◽  
Wendy W J van de Sande ◽  
Ahmed H Fahal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
World Health ◽  
Public Health Professionals ◽  
The World ◽  
Treatment Research ◽  
Public Health Practitioners ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The Global Mycetoma Working Group (GMWG) was formed in January 2018 in response to the declaration of mycetoma as a neglected tropical disease (NTD) by the World Health Assembly. The aim of the working group is to connect experts and public health practitioners around the world to accelerate mycetoma prevention activities and reduce the impact of mycetoma on patients, healthcare providers and society in the endemic regions. The working group has made tangible contributions to mycetoma programming, awareness and coordination among scientists, clinicians and public health professionals. The group's connectivity has enabled rapid response and review of NTD documents in development, has created a network of public health professionals to provide regional mycetoma expertise and has enabled mycetoma to be represented within broader NTD organizations. The GMWG will continue to serve as a hub for networking and building collaborations for the advancement of mycetoma clinical management and treatment, research and public health programming.

scholarly journals Extraction Ecology: Environment and People in the Anthropocene

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 169-181
Author(s):  
Chesta Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Lung Disease ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Impact Of Mining

The uncontrollable pursuit of growth and benefits has dominated our society. In developed part of the planet people live in energy phase of modernity but it is marked by instability of social situations and culture forms. It is often closely related to issues such as climate change, the disappearance of agro-biodiversity, or the loss of animal biodiversity. The extreme climate flux that human beings face today can be linked to the human continuous need for energy. The constant appetite to consume more and more energy has resulted in environmental degradation, like collapsed impoundment dams, floods, dead zones in forests. It has not only affected the environment but also people. It has given rise to unemployment, crippling poverty, and diseases such as black lung disease. This paper operates at the intersection of ecocriticism and extractive fiction studies to study the impact of mining by examining The Upheaval by Pundalik Naik. By applying the theory of ecocriticism, this paper will study and highlight how these places are rich in resources but are places of environmental degradation, public health issues, poverty and social conflict.

scholarly journals The Sustainable Solution Green Building

2021 ◽  
pp. 435-438
Author(s):  
Aboli Mendhe ◽  
Ankit Ghode ◽  
Umesh Jibhakate ◽  
Ritik Chalurkar ◽  
Niraj Bhople ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Construction Technology ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

Since the 21st century, the idea of green constructing has gradually become popular again was launched in many countries, which has become a popular alternative to sustainable development construction industry. Over the past few decades, many scholars and experts have done more research on the green structure. Green construction technology is one of the world’s leading topics set to reduce the major impact of the construction industry on the environment, society and the economy. The world has an urgent need for sustainability and an intelligent development as the problem of pollution and global warming grows rapidly around the world. Major climate change has also been noted and experience globally due to the proliferation of Green House Gases (GHG's). The purpose of this paper is to focus on how sustainable constructing material can help reduce the impact of environmental degradation, and produce healthy buildings that are sustainable for the human being and for our environment.

scholarly journals Sustainable Development of Society in the Context of the Transformation of the Legal Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Andrejs Vilks ◽  
Aldona Kipāne
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
The World ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Impact

The socio-economic processes in the world and in Europe are highly dynamic and are aimed at a sustainable development of society. The sustainable and balanced development of society determines the need for the development of coherent and objectively justified elements of the legal system, including the creation of a new legal framework, the permanent reform of law enforcement authorities, and the use of national and international legal practices in socio-economic activities. At present the sustainable development of society is affected by a new socially unfavourable phenomenon COVID-19  that has a global impact on all regions of the world and almost all spheres of life. International organizations and national institutions must be responsible, courageous and determined in tackling the challenges of the crisis and in building a new generation. The global crisis can be a unique opportunity not only to successfully overcome its consequences, but also to ensure a transition to a fair, climate-neutral and digital sustainable Europe. In this context innovative thinking, successful use of modern technologies, transition to new models of social, economic, political and legal governance are needed. In general, this will contribute to the development of the sustainable society based on a full legal framework. Research aim: to identify the current state of the sustainable development of society, including the impact of COVID-19, by modelling the potential development of it, in accordance with the perspective of transnational socio-economic development. Research methods: study of legal literature and literary sources, the Internet resources, method of modelling, as well as descriptive and analytical methods.  Keywords:  COVID-19, sustainable development, crisis, society, the legal framework

Sustainable Development Ideas: an “Apple of Discord" or a Platform for Unification?

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (6) ◽  
pp. 23-41
Author(s):  
Zhanna Mingaleva
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Urbanization Rate ◽  
The Impact

The article analyzes the main foreign approaches to the interpretation of the “sustainable development” definition, the directions for the formation of various concepts, programs, political attitudes based on the definition and ideas of sustainable development, identifies shortcomings of the most common approaches and concepts. An overview of the main approaches and theories of sustainable development is compiled, their classification is proposed, a spatial model of the conceptual areas of the concept of “sustainable development” and spheres of its application is presented. The study concluded that the alternative approaches to understanding the role of the environment in the existence of mankind, to the assessment of both the impact of industrial and agricultural production and the results of people’s livelihoods (especially in the context of a sharp increase of urbanization rate) on the global environmental situation, have led to the formation of various concepts of sustainable development that form the basis of national strategies and programs of sustainable development. As a result, the ideas, and the very concept of sustainable development, are increasingly becoming a field of disagreements and contradictions between states and individual regions of the world, rather than a common platform for combining efforts to solve global problems of mankind.

The Future of Human Rights in WHO

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flavia Bustreo ◽  
Veronica Magar ◽  
Rajat Khosla ◽  
Marcus Stahlhofer ◽  
Rebekah Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines how the Sustainable Development Agenda—with its focus on equity, gender equality, and human rights—has provided an unprecedented opportunity to advance human rights within the World Health Organization (WHO). It looks at how human rights are increasingly permeating the Organization’s work, both implicitly and explicitly, and how this paves the way for a bolder vision for human rights in health. Through this examination, the authors lay out a strategy for three necessary shifts that would set WHO on an unprecedented path toward greater rights-based health governance: the adoption of a Resolution by WHO’s governing body on health, both as a human right and as a means to achieve human rights (“to health and through health”); greater collaboration between WHO and the UN human rights system to promote rights-based approaches to health; and building evidence of the impact of such approaches on health.

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