Slatin Craig
Department of Community Health and Sustainability, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 3 Solomont Way, Suite 3, Lowell, MA 01854, USA.
New Solut. 2011;21(2):177-95. doi: 10.2190/NS.21.2.c.
Modern environmental- and occupational-related morbidities and mortality are determined by the power relations inherent in our existing capitalist systems of production and consumption. These systems thwart human public health rights because of the priority to maximize profit for the systems' owners rather than to establish ecologically sound and socially just development for all. The international public health community must return to its primary prevention roots and take action to eliminate the potential for population morbidities that result from hazardous substance exposures in work and community environments. The 1988 Adelaide Recommendations on Healthy Public Policy provide us with guidelines that incorporate a human rights approach and build on several decades of international public health declarations and charters. To succeed, public health must work with the labor movement. A human rights approach to environmental public health can help us make a transition to sustainable modes of production and consumption. The environmental justice movement's strategy for an economic greening that sets as a priority "pathways out of poverty" can help to advance environmental public health rights.
现代与环境和职业相关的发病率和死亡率是由我们现有的资本主义生产和消费体系中固有的权力关系所决定的。这些体系阻碍了人类的公共卫生权利，因为它们优先考虑为体系所有者实现利润最大化，而不是为所有人建立生态健全和社会公正的发展。国际公共卫生界必须回归其初级预防的根源，采取行动消除工作和社区环境中有害物质暴露导致人群发病的可能性。1988年关于健康公共政策的阿德莱德建议为我们提供了指导方针，这些方针纳入了人权方法，并以几十年的国际公共卫生宣言和宪章为基础。为了取得成功，公共卫生必须与劳工运动合作。一种人权方法的环境公共卫生可以帮助我们向可持续的生产和消费模式过渡。环境正义运动的经济绿化战略将“摆脱贫困的途径”作为优先事项，有助于推进环境公共卫生权利。
