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  • Environmental Science
  • Environmental Sustainability

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  • Assessing the environmental impact of public health interventions is crucial.
  • Defining environmental sustainability for public health requires a lifecycle perspective and consideration of environmental budgets.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the environmental sustainability of public health interventions and policies.
  • To define and operationalize environmental sustainability within public health.
  • To explore the concept of environmental "budgets" or safe operating spaces.

Main Methods:

  • Lifecycle assessment of public health interventions.
  • Analysis of environmental "budgets" and individual shares.
  • Ethical and practical considerations of resource allocation within environmental limits.

Main Results:

  • Environmental sustainability in public health necessitates considering human lifecycles and finite environmental budgets.
  • Assigning larger environmental shares based on age is incompatible with maximizing health within planetary boundaries.
  • Individuals should receive a fixed share of environmental budgets throughout their lives.

Conclusions:

  • Public health interventions and policies are not inherently environmentally sustainable.
  • The assumption of a "win-win" scenario between public health and environmental sustainability is not always valid.
  • A critical evaluation of interventions is needed to ensure they align with environmental limits and maximize population health equitably.