How to change environmental conditions for health
Health promot. int
; 22(1): 80-87, mar. 2007. ilus
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ABSTRACT
Since the Lalonde report, contemporary public-health theory has given steadily more attention to the role of environments in influencing health status. Environments, both social and physical, influence health directly or through complex interactions with behavior, genetics and health-care systems. They are also important for public-health because environments are the complex systems through which people are both empowered and exercise their empowerment. If public-health professionals are to play a significant role in influencing environments for health, they need analytical instruments that enable them to link specific envionmental conditions with the actions necessary to improve them. These instruments must also enable public-health professionals to identify points of leverage for stimulating key actors to take the actions necessary to make environments more promoting of health. This article first presents one such analytical instrument. Then, building on examples relating to socio-economic health inequities, the analytical instrument is applied to reveal how it can add value to health professionals' effectiveness in planning intervention for more health-promoting environments.(AU)
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05-specialized
Base de dados:
CidSaude
Assunto principal:
Meio Ambiente
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Promoção da Saúde
Aspecto:
Equity_inequality
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Patient_preference
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Health promot. int
Ano de publicação:
2007
Tipo de documento:
Article