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Implementation of APPs: Methodological proposal to promote environmental health

Abstract:

Environmental health is the relationship between physical and psychosocial well-being of people and communities with the set of physical, chemical, biological, climatic, socio-cultural and economic conditions that surround them. The impacts of agricultural, energy and industrial production, as well as deforestation and the use and management of water and waste, are known as the social environment, and have generated great and lasting consequences that affect both the environment and living beings. Currently a quarter of global deaths are related to environmental health, which means that it is possible to improve human health by promoting healthy environments, especially against modifiable environmental risk factors, which are those reasonably susceptible to management or change given current knowledge and technology, resources, and social acceptability. The objective of the research is to include technology as a driver of environmental health, considering the scientific, technological, economic and legal contexts, in the creation of mobile applications (APPs) that empower citizens, so that they can report in real time and with accurate data on events and situations that affect your environment (by air, water and land) in your community; also becoming a viable methodological model for its development in towns and cities in Latin America and the world.