Socio-Environmental Health and Risk Perception
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 3158
Special Issue Editors
Interests: socio-environmental health; safe and healthy workplaces; rural and urban work processes; risk perception; risk communication; primary health care; gender and work
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Socio-environmental health corresponds to the integrated phenomenon between societies and natural environments. This integration process occurs in different human contexts (un)sustainable conditions of healthy states (or not) are generated; these conditions result from work processes. There is a body of evidence, and even growing trends, that whatever work (health, family, educational, political, among others) should program its processes to order and harmonize human needs in their daily work to signify the meaning of global life. In other words, work should maintain and create processes that result in socio-environmental health states/conditions. The complex production of socio-environmental health incorporates the perception of risk conducted by risk communication (producing and reproducing knowledge combined with decision-making) to predict, prevent, and eliminate dangers to socio-environmental health in the sense of promoting healthy conditions of life. According to WHO, healthier environments can prevent nearly a quarter of the global disease burden. The COVID-19 pandemic is representative of socio-environmental inequities in the sensitive relationship between people and the planet. Thus, when socio-environmental health is assumed, with any perspective on different objects of investigation, we have an immense responsibility to know and act to protect ourselves and others of the same nature and different natures. There is a need to establish comprehensive and socially relevant research approaches that guide public policy and public health interventions. Health work is a potential portion of knowledge and interventions in producing healthy and sustainable living conditions (rural and urban communities, specific work groups, schools, family, among others).
Prof. Dr. Marta Regina Cezar-Vaz
Dr. Clarice Alves Bonow
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- socio-environmental health
- risk perception
- risk communication
- work process
- rural and urban communities
- exposure to socio-environmental risks
- collective interventions
- public health policies
- human coexistence
- socio-environmental inequities
- illnesses related to socio-environmental coexistence
