Healthy and Sustainable Lifestyles in the Context of Planetary Health
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 (18 April 2023) | Viewed by 17193
Special Issue Editor
2. German Advisory Council on Global Change, Luisenstraße 46, D-10117 Berlin, Germany
Interests: non-communicable diseases; sedentary behavior; physical activity; overweight/obesity; nutrition; prevention; planetary health; global health
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Planetary health (defined as “the health of human civilisation and the state of the natural systems on which it depends” [1]) is tightly interwoven with human activities, including healthy and sustainable lifestyles. Win-win strategies such as healthy and sustainable food and active transport show that health-promoting and sustainable lifestyles and the enabling structures are beneficial both for human health and for the state of the natural systems.
How can human and natural systems influence and contribute to health-promoting and environmentally friendly lifestyles? What is the role of social, commercial, environmental, and other underlying determinants? How can actions that aim to foster healthy and sustainable lifestyles impact human and natural systems? A more detailed understanding of these questions is key to moving this science forward to improve planetary health. Furthermore, the role health systems, food systems, education systems, transport, and spatial planning play for enabling healthy and sustainable lifestyles for planetary health, as well as the opportunities and challenges of (planetary) health in all policies, are of interest. Understanding these different interactions at local and global levels, and in different population groups (including deprived communities, children, older people, and people with chronic conditions), promoting stakeholders’ participation and engagement and developing and implementing interventions with a transdisciplinary approach are crucial to take collective actions toward healthy people on a healthy planet. Observational and interventional studies as well as systematic reviews and meta-analyses that use a planetary health approach with focus on healthy and sustainable lifestyles will help to advance research on the multiple benefits in the context of planetary health.
Reference
1. Whitmee, S.; Haines, A.; Beyrer, C.; Boltz, F.; Capon, A.G.; de Souza Dias, B.F.; Ezeh, A.; Frumkin, H.; Gong, P.; et al. Safeguarding Human Health in the Anthropocene Epoch: Report of the Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on Planetary Health. lancet, 2015, 386, 1973-2028.
Dr. Carmen Jochem
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- active mobility/transport
- co-benefits
- well-being
- health systems
- non-communicable diseases
- communicable diseases
- food systems
- urban and rural living environment
- lifestyles
- health promotion
- prevention
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