Integrated Surveillance System for Polluted Communities: A Task Force for Syndemic Health Risks

• Main Authors: Paz Tovar, Claudia, León Arce, Mauricio, Van Brussel, Evelyn, Torres Díaz, Angélica, Pérez-Vázquez, Francisco, Flores Ramírez, Rogelio, García Sepúlveda, Christian Alberto, Comas García, Andreu, Espinosa Reyes, Guillermo, Mendoza Pérez, Karen, Carrizales Yáñez, Leticia, Díaz-Barriga, Fernando
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Sociedad Española de Salud Ambiental 2022
• Subjects: comunidades contaminadas; derecho a la salud; derecho a un ambiente limpio; escenarios humanitarios; salud infantil; salud de los trabajadores; Derecho; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://ojs.diffundit.com/index.php/rsa/article/view/1143

The world is currently facing a pandemic and global challenges such as climate change, poverty, hunger, biodiversity loss, ocean acidification and inequalities. In this context, it follows that societies have forgotten a worrying old problem: pollution in all its shapes and forms. Thus, a plan must be devised to deal with the effects of chemical, physical and biological pollution. Such a strategy, however, should not ignore the syndemic caused by the interaction of pollution with the rest of the environmental, social, political, economic and health problems humanity has to deal with. Likewise, it should consider starting the intervention at the local scale, i.e. from the communities up. In this paper we present the conclusions of a series of collaborations that we have published in this journal, as well as our strategy for tackling polluting processes at the community level in highly vulnerable regions that we have named Humanitarian Scenarios, which include not only human communities but also the rest of nature’s living beings (Total Health scheme). We have called this initiative Integrated Monitoring System for Polluted Communities (SIVICCO) since it incorporates a set of concepts and tools for preventing the negative effects of pollution in all its forms and in all communities. SIVICCO is an integrated strategy but, above all, the expression of a new civic spirit based on the active participation of communities from a human rights perspective. Actualmente, el mundo enfrenta una pandemia y retos globales como el cambio climático, la pobreza, el hambre, la pérdida de la biodiversidad, la acidificación de los océanos y las desigualdades. En este contexto, se infiere que las sociedades hayan olvidado un problema antiguo y preocupante, la contaminación en todas sus formas. Es así entonces, que debe establecerse un plan para afrontar los efectos de la contaminación química, física y biológica. Sin embargo, dicha estrategia no debe ignorar la sindemia causada por la interacción de la contaminación con ...