Environmental Health Behavior

Concepts, Determinants, and Impacts

Ana Virgolino, Osvaldo Santos, Ricardo R. Santos

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9780128242483
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Biology
• Index: Biological Sciences

The unique biological capacities of humankind enabled the emergence of organized societies and sophisticated and globalized cultures. The progressive and universal recognition of science and technology as bulwarks of our species' survival, longevity, and quality of life made individual and organizational behaviors the main drivers of current (and future) human and planetary health standards.Environmental Health Behavior: Concepts, Determinants, and Impacts, integrates two different but intertwined fields, environmental health sciences and human behavior sciences, identifying and systematizing current knowledge about human behaviors and habits, and addressing the challenge of environmental sustainability. The book takes the reader through a conceptual framework for environmental health behavior (EHB) as an emerging field of public and environmental health, positioning behavior change as the main challenge for the success of promoting sustainable human and planetary health. Its reading promotes insight into the environmental impacts of human demands and behavior, and, vice-versa, about the impacts of the environment on human behavior change. Moreover, different evidence-based strategies to promote EHB change are identified as practical tools for stakeholders involved in the challenge of promoting intergenerational well-being in balanced and sustainable human-produced and natural systems. - Provides easily accessible integrated data supported by practical and illustrative examples of environmental health behaviors - Offers a multidisciplinary collaborative approach to EHB by experts from different fields – health sciences, environmental sciences, psychology, sociology, among others - Delivers information on how to promote EHB change in different settings

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contributors
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1 : Tragedy of the commons, again
• Chapter 2 : Did we evolve to live healthily? How natural selection shaped our body, our behavior, and the way we interact with the environment
• Chapter 3 : A different light on environmental health
• Chapter 4 : Cultural and civilizational determinants of environmental health
• Chapter 5 : Environmental health behavior as a unifying concept for public health and planetary health
• Chapter 6 : Promoting health behavior change across different environments: Universal principles of behavior modification at individual and community level
• Chapter 7 : Social and affective environments: The importance of family ecosystems for positive development during adolescence
• Chapter 8 : The whole-school ecosystem approach for promoting health and satisfaction with life among adolescents
• Chapter 9 : Impact of the natural and built environment on human health: A perspective from environmental psychology
• Chapter 10 : How smart cities can promote healthy behaviors
• Chapter 11 : The impact of developing green and exercise-friendly spaces in deprived neighborhoods on health and healthy lifestyles: A systematic literature review
• Chapter 12 : Digital environments: Additional environmental layers for environmental health behavior
• Chapter 13 : Environmental migration and human rights: Clues for the debate
• Chapter 14 : Environmental change, mental health, and well-being
• Chapter 15 : From diagnosis to treatment of mental disorders in a world of accelerated environmental changes
• Chapter 16 : Psychology of homelessness, home, and environment
• Chapter 17 : Challenges from patterns of human behaviors and drought: Environmental and human health risks
• Chapter 18 : Energy poverty: Overview and illustrative case
• Chapter 19 : The environmental footprint of the healthcare system
• Chapter 20 : Health and environmental risk communication: Avoiding risk information avoidance and unintentional message framing effects
• Index
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