Advancing environmental public health in Latin America and the Caribbean

This paper highlights the important leadership role of the public health sector, working with other governmental sectors and nongovernmental entities, to advance environmental public health in Latin America and the Caribbean toward the achievement of 2030 Sustainable Development Goal 3: Health and W...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
Main Authors: Marcelo Korc, Fred Hauchman
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Spanish
Portuguese
Published: Pan American Health Organization 2021
Subjects:
climate change
environmental health
environment and public health
health equity
health policy
sustainable development
americas
Medicine
R
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
Arctic
Climate change
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2021.118
https://doaj.org/article/9779a4c6554f4c5f8815d1395ed0c395
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Summary:This paper highlights the important leadership role of the public health sector, working with other governmental sectors and nongovernmental entities, to advance environmental public health in Latin America and the Caribbean toward the achievement of 2030 Sustainable Development Goal 3: Health and Well-Being. The most pressing current and future environmental public health threats are discussed, followed by a brief review of major historical and current international and regional efforts to address these concerns. The paper concludes with a discussion of three major components of a regional environmental public health agenda that responsible parties can undertake to make significant progress toward ensuring the health and well-being of all people throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

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