Environmental Ethics Relevance to Public Health: Current Narratives and Implications for Policy

Abstract

The poor state of environment can affect human health and maintaining a perfect environment requires a considerable investment 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 human 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