Environmental Ethics Relevance to Public Health: Current Narratives and Implications for Policy
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2019-11-18
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The poor state of environment can affect human health and maintaining a perfect environment requires considerable invest ment in staff, resources, good communication, willingness to dialogue and be flexible and listening on both side of the table. It is
well known that the promotion of human health can also affect the environment. This cause harm to the environment, such as the
increased use of fossil fuel, deforestation, pollution and biodiversity reduction. The relationship between the environment and hu man health creates complex ethical issues related to environmental regulations and health policy decisions. These ethical issues are
aimed at increasing and generating emergence of environmental impacts of climate change and new technologies that can affect the
environment, such as nanotechnology, genetically modified organisms and biofuels. While, government need to focus on educating
its citizen about the importance of environmental health ethic. Promotion and education have proven to be a major contributor to the
success of environmental health ethics and is a key to ensuring ethics sustainability.
Keywords: Ethics; Sustainability; Human Health; Environmental Harm; Good Communication
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While skeptics may scoff, ardent followers believe a palm reader can examine your hand and reveal personal characteristics. But on
any given day, an observation of your local community says a lot about our global society at large. Globally, environmental health ethics
has been an important issue which has been studied in the academic area and this has led to the creation and improvement in policies
standards and public awareness programs. Environmental Health Ethics reflects the conflicts between the protection of the environment
and the promotion of human health. It is interesting to note that the Earth has entered a new epoch, the Anthropocene, where human
activity has dragged on and will continue to bring about significant changes in planetary biophysics of our globe