Lifestyle Hygiene and Environmental Hygiene to Promote Sustainable Health and Well-Being
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Health, Well-Being and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 31
Special Issue Editor
Interests: hygiene; health promotion; environmental health; formal and informal education for health and well-being; community medicine; community engagement
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on lifestyle and environmental hygiene, their intersection, and how they impact health. Hence several sustainable development goals related to health, the environment, and sustainability are addressed, and research papers that support the promotion of a healthy lifestyle and creation of environments that promote and sustain health are welcome.
Creating a healthy lifestyle includes adopting a healthy diet and an active way of life, following appropriate sleep patterns and managing stress, avoiding consumption of risky substances and maintaining hand, oral, and personal hygiene. Lifestyle hygiene focuses on research, training, education, and technical and legislative measures, as well as complex approaches that promote a healthy lifestyle among individuals, families, and communities. It impacts health and wellbeing.
Environmental hygiene assesses the impact of environmental factors on human health and contributes to the creation of environments that promote health and well-being, while also facilitating ecological behaviours the support environmental protection, underlining planetary health.
This Special Issue aims to reflect research and best practice exchange in the field of lifestyle hygiene and environmental hygiene, addressing in this way several Sustainable Development Goals:
- SDG 3: Good health and wellbeing;
- SDG 5: Clean water and sanitation;
- SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities;
- SDG 13: Climate action.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Assessing of lifestyle among different population groups;
- Measures and programs to promote a healthy lifestyle across the lifespan;
- Formal and informal education in the field of lifestyle hygiene;
- Assessing the quality of environmental factors and their effect on health;
- Interventions and approaches for environmental protection;
- The intersection between lifestyle, environmental hygiene, and health.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Lucia Maria Lotrean
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- lifestyle hygiene
- environmental hygiene
- global health
- wellbeing
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