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Environmental Health Promotion: Variables and indicators of the instructional method

Abstract:

Environmental health is a relationship between external physical, chemical and biological factors and the human being, immersed in the ecosystem; this can affect health, therefore, it is based on the prevention of diseases and the creation of favorable environments. Under an initial longitudinal study to identify the environmental variables and indicators for the instructional method of promoting environmental health, for this, those proposed by the WHO, in 2009, and state ones such as the Ministry of the Environment, Water and Transition were considered. Ecological Institute of Ecuador, in 2014, and in 1990 UNESCO. With an index of 0.30; of 19 variables and 124 indicators from three official databases, a total of 37 were retrieved by expertise to include, 6 from WHO Europe, 7 from WHO Ecuador Environmental Profile and 24 from the State; Of the latter, 29% correspond to pressure indicators, 42% to status, and another 29% to response. In Ecuador, it is conceptualized as a dynamic changing and participatory process in the temporal-spatial reality, however, education for sustainable development will only become a reality if the basic problems are addressed from the point of view of the multiple stakeholders. The guidelines, variables and indicators are adapted to the local, regional or national, and even international reality; for the definition of priorities and epidemiological patterns.