From Health-in-All-Policies to Climate-in-All-Policies: Using the Synergies between Health Promotion and Climate Protection to Take Action
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. The Relationship between Health Promotion and Climate Protection
3. Breaking Down the Complexity—Three Principles to Protect the Climate and Promote Health
- (1)
- Sustainability
- (2)
- Focus on determinants
- (3)
- Individual as well as community approaches
4. Examples for Common Domains of Health Promotion and Climate Protection
- (1)
- Literacy
- (2)
- Physical activity
- (3)
- Nutrition and dietary habits
5. From Policy to Practice
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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SEM 1 | SDG 2 |
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Environmental conditions | Affordable and clean energy (7), sustainable cities and communities (11), climate action (13), life below water (14), and life on land (15) |
Agriculture and food production | Zero hunger (2) and responsible consumption and production (12) |
Education | Quality education (4) |
Work environment | Decent work and economic growth (8) |
Unemployment | No poverty (1) |
Water and sanitation | Clean water and sanitation (6) |
Health care services | Good health and well-being (3) |
Social and community networks | Social and community networks |
Sex | Gender equality (5) |
Conditional factors | Industry innovation and infrastructure (9), reduced inequalities (10), and peace, justice, and strong institutions (16) |
Sustainability | Determinants | Individual and Community Approaches | |
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Literacy | Adaptation of the dimensions of the sense of coherence, as a prerequisite for salutogenesis (comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness) can also be seen as a prerequisite for sustainability in the genesis of climate protection. | Social determinants, especially education, play a key part in the levels of health and climate literacy. Easy access to evidence-based information in lay language is another important determinant. Facilitating these levers through active policies in education and health and climate promotion can mitigate negative impact of determinants. | Address individuals, patients, health professionals, and society as a whole to increase health literacy and climate literacy. Furthermore, the people, patients and public must be seen as important and equal partners for health promotion and climate protection. Including comprehensive education on health and climate from kindergarten, continuing to geriatric care, would establish a baseline understanding across society. |
Physical activity | Bottom-up instead of top-down approaches and orientation on individual stages of change can promote a change in physical activity behaviour towards sustainable, active mobility. | The orientation of policies and strategies towards social, economic, cultural, individual, and health- and fitness-related determinants is an important prerequisite for the promotion of active mobility. | Encourage individuals towards physically active transportation as alternative for daily distances and create the conditions for it like green spaces and a traffic system which is safe and inviting for physically active transportation. |
Nutrition and dietary habits | A sustainable change and maintenance of healthy eating habits is very difficult for many people. The best results can be achieved by considering all established pillars of health promotion (empowerment, participation, orientation towards determinants, personal needs and believes, and stages of change, etc.). | Social, economic, individual, and cultural determinants of eating habits must be taken into account for a healthy and climate-friendly change in diet. | Develop sustainable nutrition guidelines for healthy nutrition with focus on local, organic, and plant-based food and communicate them to individuals, stakeholders, and the public. |
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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. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2024, 21, 110. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21010110
Stein KV, Dorner TE. 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(1):110. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21010110
Chicago/Turabian StyleStein, K. Viktoria, and Thomas E. Dorner. 2024. "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 21, no. 1: 110. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21010110
APA StyleStein, K. V., & Dorner, T. E. (2024). 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, 21(1), 110. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21010110