Marsili Daniela
Dipartimento del Farmaco, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 00161 Rome, Italy.
Ann Ist Super Sanita. 2009;45(1):76-82.
"Environmental health" and "multidimensional development process" are two concepts that have been used and discussed since the last two decades within different conceptual frameworks. The present paper presents and discusses an interpretation concerning the interconnection between these two concepts in line with the integrated approach to health of environmental epidemiology and the multidimensional development approach of socio-economic analyses. The paper aims at investigating the environmental health and the condition of environmental health deprivation affecting populations in developing countries, and proposes to consider them as central issues for integrated environmental epidemiological and socio-economic investigations. The relevance and impact of this interdisciplinary approach to investigate the different and interconnected dimensions of poverty are here discussed. Moreover, this paper points out the role of technical and scientific cooperation in environmental epidemiology presenting the experience of a bilateral scientific cooperation between the Istituto Superiore di Sanità and IFA, an Ecuadorian non-governmental organization.
“环境卫生”和“多维发展进程”是过去二十年来在不同概念框架内被使用和讨论的两个概念。本文根据环境流行病学的综合健康方法和社会经济分析的多维发展方法，提出并讨论了关于这两个概念之间相互联系的一种解释。本文旨在调查发展中国家人口的环境卫生状况以及影响他们的环境卫生剥夺状况，并建议将其视为环境流行病学和社会经济综合调查的核心问题。本文讨论了这种跨学科方法在调查贫困的不同且相互关联维度方面的相关性和影响。此外，本文通过介绍意大利高等卫生研究院与厄瓜多尔非政府组织IFA之间的双边科学合作经验，指出了技术和科学合作在环境流行病学中的作用。
