Translating National Policy to Improve Environmental Conditions Impacting Public Health Through Community Planning
Translating National Policy to Improve Environmental Conditions Impacting Public Health Through Community Planning
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通过社区规划转化国家政策以改善影响公共卫生的环境条件
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-75361-4
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
B. Fiedler
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作者:
B. Fiedler
How did I get here?” (Byrne and Eno. Once in a lifetime—Talking Heads song (Album). Sire Records, Philadelphia, PA; 1980). The problem with development and implementation of large-scale policy into small communities is foundational to the basic conflict in an economics-driven society. That is, economic growth normally depletes resources and reduces ecosystem services leading to negative environmental externalities that, in turn, impacts social welfare. But national policy still places economic growth as a leading indicator of societal success, even if success is achieved to the detriment of the global scarcity of resources, contributing to child mortality, obesity, lack of access to clean water, unsafe communities, uncertain citizenship status, and similar concerns. All these negative environmental conditions crucially influence health conditions, whatever undeveloped, emerging, or industrialized country is considered. Reconciling the differences in this multidimensional political, social, economic, behavioral, life science, and public health dilemma is tricky, at best, due to governing models reliant on a foundation of economics, history, and mathematics—a triple bane of every scholar’s existence. However, the opportunity to generate progressive and sustainable change absent this foundation would otherwise be missed. Thus, this chapter introduces and then unfolds the economic problem in contrast to human development that is at the root of the challenge of implementing national economic policy and the local impact effecting general human development and quality of life. The chapter addresses the application of new metrics supporting economic, human and sustainable development and closes with the application of these metrics towards reasonable constraints of national equitable distribution and global economic expansion. B. A. Fiedler (*) Independent Research Analyst, Jacksonville, FL, USA V. Costantini Department of Economics, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy e-mail: valeria.costantini@uniroma3.it