Social determinants and lifestyles:

integrating environmental and public

health perspectives

Nutrition in Public Health - Team 5

Ernesto Emiliano González Juárez - 1915455
Luis Eduardo Rodríguez Acosta - 2050440
Anakaren Roy Zavala - 2083299
Daniela Saraí Reyes De La Rosa - 2050370
Kali Estefanía Martínez Rodríguez - 2055777
 Introduction
Industrialization and urbanization have produced all the
following changes:

Non-communicable disease has replaced communicable

disease as the major cause of premature mortality.
Staple plant-based diets have given way to animal-sourced
foods, including dairy products and processed meat.
Increases in atmospheric CO2 and surface temperature, ocean
acidification, deforestation and agricultural intensification, loss
of biodiversity and oceanic ecosystems.

This document want to enphasize de relation between public

health and environments, it is important because the resources
that humans need to survive are provided by the ecosystems.
 Social determinants
In the past, governments in high-income countries
dictated that the main cause of chronic diseases was
people's lifestyles, however, in the 1970s the thinking that
health is influenced by environmental, social and
economic factors began to become popular.

Include the
biophysical
environment

Barton and Grant (2006)

Dahlgren and Whitehead (1991)

Frameworks that represent the anthropo-genic causes
of environmental change and their conse-quences

Pressure-State-Response (PSR) framework: the pressures of human activities affect the

state of the environment and natural resources and this influence the responses of
economic and environmental agents.

Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework: human drivers (transport)

were distinguished from environmental pressures (CO2 emissions), and the state of the
environment (air, soil and water quality) was separated from impacts (on human health
and biodiversity).

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA): It is built around four interconnected

components, indirect drivers of change (demographic, economic and sociopolitical
factors), direct drivers of change (changes in land use, species introduction or removal,
harvest and resource consumption, and climate change) , ecosystem services and human
well-being and poverty reduction that is affected by both sets of drivers.
 Lifestyles: public health and
environmental perspectives
Lifestyles provide a second bridge between public health and environmental sustainability
Example

Technological changes in the Greenhouse effects, habitat

The declining levels of home and workplace and a shift loss and fragmentation and
physical activity from active to motorized travel, decreased ecosystem
this also affect the environment resilience

We can concluded that the total environmental impacts of household consumption derived from
three majorareas: food and drink, transport and housing.
 Conclusion
The public health community is tasked with responsibility to assure the conditions in
which people can be healthy. It is a task that requires the integration of public health
and environmental sustainability into a common agenda, with alliances and
partnerships that link across societies, disciplines and policy sectors.
Thank you!