Stein, K.V.; Dorner, T.E. From Health-in-All-Policies to Climate-in-All-Policies: Using the Synergies between Health Promotion and Climate Protection to Take Action. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2024, 21, 110, doi:10.3390/ijerph21010110.
Stein, K.V.; Dorner, T.E. From Health-in-All-Policies to Climate-in-All-Policies: Using the Synergies between Health Promotion and Climate Protection to Take Action. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2024, 21, 110, doi:10.3390/ijerph21010110.
Stein, K.V.; Dorner, T.E. From Health-in-All-Policies to Climate-in-All-Policies: Using the Synergies between Health Promotion and Climate Protection to Take Action. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2024, 21, 110, doi:10.3390/ijerph21010110.
Stein, K.V.; Dorner, T.E. From Health-in-All-Policies to Climate-in-All-Policies: Using the Synergies between Health Promotion and Climate Protection to Take Action. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2024, 21, 110, doi:10.3390/ijerph21010110.
Abstract
The climate crisis is developing to a life-changing event on a global level. Health promotion with the aim to increase the health status of individuals, independent from the present health status has been developed on scientific basis at least for the last eight decades and follows. There are some basic principles, which are prerequisites for both, health promotion and climate protection. Those principles include (1) sustainability, (2) orientation on determinants, and (3) requirement of in-dividual as well as community approaches. People are generally aiming to protect their lifestyle habits (e.g. traveling, consumer habits) and personal properties (e.g. car, house) by easy solution with as little effort as possible, and this can affect both, health and climate. To reduce the emission of greenhouse gases and to protect our environment, changes towards a sustainable lifestyle have to be embed into everybody’s mind. Examples for domains, that need to be addressed in health promotion as well as in climate protection include education/ knowledge/ (health) literacy, physical activity, nutrition and dietary habits, mental health, and social capital. If health promo-tion fails to tackle those domains, this will continue to drive climate crisis. And climate change, in turn, will affect health. On the other hand, developing and promoting health resources in the domains mentioned could again help to mitigate the health-damaging effects of climate change.
Keywords
one health; health promotion; climate change; exercise; nutrition; health literacy; climate literacy; sustainability; social determinants
Subject
Public Health and Healthcare, Public, Environmental and Occupational Health
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