Buterin Toni, Rinčić Iva, Muzur Amir, Doričić Robert
Faculty of Health Studies, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia.
Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia.
Front Public Health. 2025 Jul 17;13:1620117. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1620117. eCollection 2025.
The modern-day ecological crisis and gradual degradation of the environment, mostly due to anthropogenic effects, surpass other contemporary societal issues. Despite being largely perceived through a (bio)medical lens, the complexity of climate change as a topic is seen in different trends concerning its impact on the living world. These include historical, economic, cultural and social dimensions. Therefore, there is a need for an integrated and interdisciplinary approach resulting in more comprehensive measures to allow society to recover, but which also exploit the positive potential of climate change, through models and methods that the New Public Health can provide. Starting from the definition of the New Public Health, this paper combines and connects two topics, New Public Health and climate change, that are rarely explored together in the literature. The aim is to fill the gaps in the public health literature, where climate change is frequently viewed solely as a medical or health issue; here, we frame it as a critical challenge encompassing social, humanistic, and environmental dimensions. In addition, we offer a conceptual contribution that emphasizes their interconnection within the context of contemporary challenges.
现代生态危机以及主要由人为影响导致的环境逐渐退化，比其他当代社会问题更为严重。尽管气候变化这一话题在很大程度上是通过（生物）医学视角被人们所认识，但就其对生物世界的影响而言，它呈现出不同的趋势，其复杂性体现在历史、经济、文化和社会等多个维度。因此，需要一种综合的跨学科方法，通过新公共卫生能够提供的模型和方法，制定出更全面的措施，以使社会得以恢复，同时也能挖掘气候变化的积极潜力。本文从新公共卫生的定义出发，将新公共卫生与气候变化这两个在文献中很少被同时探讨的主题结合并联系起来。目的是填补公共卫生文献中的空白，在这些文献中，气候变化常常仅被视为一个医学或健康问题；在此，我们将其界定为一个涵盖社会、人文和环境维度的严峻挑战。此外，我们还做出了概念性贡献，强调了它们在当代挑战背景下的相互联系。
