Environmental health conceptualization: theory and practice (part 1).
Journal Title: Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Publica - Year 2008, Vol 25, Issue 4
Abstract
This article reviews health definitions and postulates in their broadest sense, emphazising its intimate relationship with the environment surrounding human beings, considering the environment as a living organism or system we live in, and taking into account that any positive or negative action results in its respective reaction. There is also a close relationship with socio-economic development, since the latter cannot exist without good health. So there is a new and wider concept of environmental health as a science on its own, integrating the so called determinant factors. The different fields of action for environmental health are presented, in which a specially trained multidisciplinary team must approach the role of solving problems originated by human beings rather than ‘environmental’ problems.
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Hugo Rengifo Cuéllar
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