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Environmental Health Behavior
Concepts, Determinants, and Impacts
- 1st Edition - September 1, 2024
- Editors: Ana Virgolino, Osvaldo Santos, Ricardo R. Santos
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 4 0 0 0 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 4 2 4 8 - 3
The unique biological capacities of humankind enabled the emergence of organized societies and sophisticated and globalized cultures. The progressive and universal recognition of… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe 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.
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
• 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
Researchers, academics, and professionals in environmental health sciences, public health professionals, biologists, behavioral scientists, healthcare providers, government and policymakers, sociologists, information technologists
1. The tragedy of commons, again
2. Did we evolve to live healthily? How natural selection shaped our body, our behaviour and the way we interact with the environment
3. A different light on environmental health
4. Cultural and civilizational determinants of environmental health
5. From public health to planetary health: Why environmental health behavior?
6. Promoting health behavior change across different environments: universal principles of behavior modification at individual and community level
7. Social and affective environments: the importance of family ecosystems for positive development during adolescence
8. School as a physical and social environmental ecosystem: The whole-school ecosystem approach for promoting health and satisfaction with life among adolescents
9. Natural and human-built environments
10. How smart cities can promote healthy and sustainable behaviours
11. The impact of developing green and exercise friendly spaces in deprived neighborhoods on health and healthy lifestyles: A systematic literature review
12. Digital environments: Additional environmental layers for EHB
13. Environmental migration and human rights: Clues for the debate
14. Environmental change, and mental health and wellbeing
15. From diagnosis to treatment of mental disorders in a world of accelerated environmental changes
16. Psychological approach to populations most at risk due to environmental changes: The case of the homeless
17. Challenges from patterns of human behaviours and drought: Environmental and human health risks
18. Energy poverty: Overview and special approach to the case of Portugal
19. The environmental footprint of the health care and wellbeing sectors
20. Health and environmental risk communication: Avoiding risk information avoidance and unintentional message framing effects
2. Did we evolve to live healthily? How natural selection shaped our body, our behaviour and the way we interact with the environment
3. A different light on environmental health
4. Cultural and civilizational determinants of environmental health
5. From public health to planetary health: Why environmental health behavior?
6. Promoting health behavior change across different environments: universal principles of behavior modification at individual and community level
7. Social and affective environments: the importance of family ecosystems for positive development during adolescence
8. School as a physical and social environmental ecosystem: The whole-school ecosystem approach for promoting health and satisfaction with life among adolescents
9. Natural and human-built environments
10. How smart cities can promote healthy and sustainable behaviours
11. The impact of developing green and exercise friendly spaces in deprived neighborhoods on health and healthy lifestyles: A systematic literature review
12. Digital environments: Additional environmental layers for EHB
13. Environmental migration and human rights: Clues for the debate
14. Environmental change, and mental health and wellbeing
15. From diagnosis to treatment of mental disorders in a world of accelerated environmental changes
16. Psychological approach to populations most at risk due to environmental changes: The case of the homeless
17. Challenges from patterns of human behaviours and drought: Environmental and human health risks
18. Energy poverty: Overview and special approach to the case of Portugal
19. The environmental footprint of the health care and wellbeing sectors
20. Health and environmental risk communication: Avoiding risk information avoidance and unintentional message framing effects
- No. of pages: 360
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 1, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128240007
- eBook ISBN: 9780128242483
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Ana Virgolino
Ana Virgolino is a health and clinical psychologist and a researcher at the Institute of Environmental Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, where she has been working on several projects linked to environmental health, mental health, epidemiology, and behavioral change, also involving interventions at the community. She is the responsible investigator for the participation of the Lisbon Faculty of Medicine in several international projects in the area of human biomonitoring.
Affiliations and expertise
Environmental Health Behavior (EnviHeB) Lab, Institute of Environmental Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of LisbonOS
Osvaldo Santos
Osvaldo Santos is a clinical and health psychologist, and psychotherapist. He is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL), teaching several topics of health psychology, quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods applied to different areas of health psychology, health promotion, public health, and environmental health. He is the head of the Environmental Health Behavior Lab, at the Institute of Environmental Health of FMUL. He led several international projects in different health psychology areas, focusing on health behavior change. More recently, he has coordinated several local health promotion strategies, envisioning the transformation of environments to support healthy behaviors adoption. His work has been recognized with several scientific awards. He is one of the most cited Portuguese psychologists, with publications in several of the most relevant scientific journals worldwide (including Nature, Science, and The Lancet).
Affiliations and expertise
Environmental Health Behavior (EnviHeB) Lab, Institute of Environmental Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of LisbonRS
Ricardo R. Santos
Ricardo R. Santos is a Board-certified Biologist. He is a Researcher at the Institute of Environmental Health and a Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon (UL). He is also a doctoral researcher at the NOVA Institute of Communication, an associate member of the ICS-UL Human-Animal Studies Hub, an associate member of the UL Tropical College, and a steering committee member of the DASH – The Doctor as a Humanist. His research work and lecturing covers a variety of areas, including science communication, ethics and bioethics, environmental health, one health, planetary health, climate change, science and art, animal studies, and grief.
Affiliations and expertise
Institute of Environmental Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon