[The interface of public healthcare with the health of the oceans: proliferation of disease, socio-economic impacts and beneficial relationships]. / A interface da saúde pública com a saúde dos oceanos: produção de doenças, impactos socioeconômicos e relações benéficas.
Cien Saude Colet
; 16(8): 3469-80, 2011 Aug.
Article
em Pt
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-21860947
Over the past decades, human activities have had a heavy impact on the marine environment, causing alterations in ecological processes. The relationship between the health of the oceans, human activities and public healthcare is already generally accepted, though the mechanisms involved are still under scientific scrutiny. These relationships include a focus on climate change, toxic algal blooms, microbial and chemical contamination in marine waters and bioinvasion by exotic species. Moreover, there is the beneficial effect of the oceans on human health and wellbeing, such as natural products for the human diet, the development of biomedicine, or simply the satisfaction derived from human recreation, sports and other interactions of humans with oceans. The importance of appreciating the link between public healthcare and the health of the oceans is especially important due to the growing number of people living in coastal areas, mainly in tropical and subtropical regions. The backcloth to this is risk-related human activities that pose a danger to marine environmental health and the increase in the vulnerability of humans and biodiversity and socio-environmental iniquity.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Saúde Ambiental
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Saúde Pública
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Atenção à Saúde
Tipo de estudo:
Health_economic_evaluation
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
Pt
Revista:
Cien Saude Colet
Ano de publicação:
2011
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Brasil