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The influence of social and economic environment on health
| Resumo: | 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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| Autores principais: | Vidal, Diogo Guedes |
| Outros Autores: | Oliveira, Gisela; Pontes, Manuela; Maia, Rui Leandro; Ferraz, Maria Pia |
| Assunto: | Socioeconomic health determinants Environmental health determinants Health inequalities Environmental inequalities Public policies |
| Ano: | 2022 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | capítulo de livro |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso restrito |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Fernando Pessoa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório Institucional - Universidade Fernando Pessoa |
| Resumo: | 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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