European Centre for Environment and Human Health of the University of Exeter Medical School, Cornwall, UK.
Instituto de Quimica de Sao Carlos, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil.
Ann Glob Health. 2024 Jul 9;90(1):41. doi: 10.5334/aogh.4471. eCollection 2024.
A healthy ocean is essential for human health, and yet the links between the ocean and human health are often overlooked. By providing new medicines, technologies, energy, foods, recreation, and inspiration, the ocean has the potential to enhance human health and wellbeing. However, climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, and inequity threaten both ocean and human health. Sustainable realisation of the ocean's health benefits will require overcoming these challenges through equitable partnerships, enforcement of laws and treaties, robust monitoring, and use of metrics that assess both the ocean's natural capital and human wellbeing. Achieving this will require an explicit focus on human rights, equity, sustainability, and social justice. In addition to highlighting the potential unique role of the healthcare sector, we offer science-based recommendations to protect both ocean health and human health, and we highlight the unique potential of the healthcare sector tolead this effort.
健康的海洋对人类健康至关重要，但海洋与人类健康之间的联系常常被忽视。海洋具有提供新药、技术、能源、食品、娱乐和灵感的潜力，从而增强人类健康和幸福感。然而，气候变化、污染、生物多样性丧失和不平等现象对海洋和人类健康都构成了威胁。要想实现海洋健康效益的可持续化，需要通过公平的伙伴关系、法律和条约的执行、强有力的监测以及使用衡量海洋自然资本和人类福祉的指标来克服这些挑战。这需要明确关注人权、公平、可持续性和社会正义。除了强调医疗保健部门的潜在独特作用外，我们还提供了基于科学的建议，以保护海洋健康和人类健康，并强调医疗保健部门在领导这一努力方面的独特潜力。
