Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo 01246-903, Brazil.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2016 Aug 27;13(9):858. doi: 10.3390/ijerph13090858.
Environmental health inequalities refer to health hazards disproportionately or unfairly distributed among the most vulnerable social groups, which are generally the most discriminated, poor populations and minorities affected by environmental risks. Although it has been known for a long time that health and disease are socially determined, only recently has this idea been incorporated into the conceptual and practical framework for the formulation of policies and strategies regarding health. In this Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH), "Addressing Environmental Health Inequalities-Proceedings from the ISEE Conference 2015", we incorporate nine papers that were presented at the 27th Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2015. This small collection of articles provides a brief overview of the different aspects of this topic. Addressing environmental health inequalities is important for the transformation of our reality and for changing the actual development model towards more just, democratic, and sustainable societies driven by another form of relationship between nature, economy, science, and politics.
环境健康不平等是指健康危害在最脆弱的社会群体中不成比例或不公平地分布，这些群体通常是最受歧视的、贫困人口和受环境风险影响的少数群体。尽管人们早就知道健康和疾病是由社会决定的，但直到最近，这一观点才被纳入有关健康的政策和战略制定的概念和实践框架。在本期《国际环境研究与公共卫生杂志》（IJERPH）的特刊中，“解决环境健康不平等——2015 年 ISEE 会议论文集”，我们收录了在 2015 年于巴西圣保罗举行的第 27 届国际环境流行病学学会（ISEE）会议上提交的九篇论文。这组文章简要概述了这一主题的不同方面。解决环境健康不平等问题对于改变我们的现实和改变当前的发展模式非常重要，这种发展模式朝着更加公正、民主和可持续的社会发展，这种社会由自然、经济、科学和政治之间的另一种关系驱动。
