Risk Reduction for Health Prevention
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2025 | Viewed by 637
Special Issue Editors
Interests: global health governance and diplomacy; drug policy; HIV/AIDS; tuberculosis; hepatitis; COVID-19
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2. Department of International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
3. Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Interests: international law; public health law; social protection law; human rights; issues at frontiers between law and medicine; global health
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is entitled “Risk Reduction for Health Prevention”.
The Special Issue will bring together the two concepts of prevention and risk reduction, which are key to successful public health strategies. Both prevention and risk reduction (or "harm reduction" in the specific field of drug policy and practice) minimize the negative effects on individuals’ health of changes in living conditions (social, environmental or occupational) or specific behaviors, as well as reduce morbidity and mortality at the population level.
The Special Issue will address preventative and risk reduction strategies that reduce the public health impacts of a broad spectrum of threats, including infectious diseases, climate change, hazardous working conditions, drug use and unhealthy food. It will explore a wide range of topics such as the following: the use of digital technology as a prevention tool; information and disinformation in health prevention campaigns; prevention of health issues linked to microplastic pollution; drug consumption rooms as a public health response to addiction; prevention of cardiovascular diseases; climate change and challenges for maternal health; prevention of mental health and substance use disorders among young persons.
Prof. Dr. Michel Kazatchkine
Prof. Dr. Stéphanie Dagron
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- prevention
- health promotion
- harm/risk reduction
- addictions
- human rights
- public health policies
- health systems and financing prevention
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