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The influence of social and economic environment on health
| Summary: | One health approach brings together environment, human and animal health as interdependent determinants of health, including the social and economic conditions. This chapter provides insights on how social and economic factors can influence health through cultural habits, lifestyles, conditioned access to health care, to green spaces, to healthy food, exposure to pollution and to poor sanitation conditions. The challenge of managing socio-economic factors influencing health is addressed focusing in the need to provide for reliable information to the public and adequate public policies. |
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| Main Authors: | Vidal, Diogo Guedes |
| Other Authors: | Oliveira, Gisela; Pontes, Manuela; Maia, Rui Leandro; Ferraz, Maria Pia |
| Subject: | Socioeconomic health determinants Environmental health determinants Health inequalities Environmental inequalities Public policies |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Document type: | book part |
| Access type: | restricted access |
| Associated institution: | Universidade Fernando Pessoa |
| Language: | English |
| Origin: | Repositório Institucional da Fernando Pessoa |
| Summary: | One health approach brings together environment, human and animal health as interdependent determinants of health, including the social and economic conditions. This chapter provides insights on how social and economic factors can influence health through cultural habits, lifestyles, conditioned access to health care, to green spaces, to healthy food, exposure to pollution and to poor sanitation conditions. The challenge of managing socio-economic factors influencing health is addressed focusing in the need to provide for reliable information to the public and adequate public policies. |
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