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. 2022 Nov 17:15:100461.
doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2022.100461. eCollection 2022 Dec.

Planetary health and health education in Brazil: Facing inequalities

Walter Leal Filho  1   2 , José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra  3   4 , Ana Regina de Aguiar Dutra  3 , Maria Gabriela Mendonça Peixoto  5 , Jefferson Traebert  6 , Gustavo J Nagy  7
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Planetary health and health education in Brazil: Facing inequalities

Walter Leal Filho et al. One Health. .

Abstract

Brazil has the world's fifth-largest population and seventh-largest economy. However, it also has many inequalities, especially in health education, which impacts health sector services. Thus, this article aims to describe the situation of planetary health and health education in Brazil, identifying how current policies support the cause of planetary health. This study had a qualitative approach characterised as exploratory research based on an integrative review and documentary research. The results show that, in recent decades, there have been positive improvements to achieve collective and planetary health, which advocates empathy and pro-environmental and humanitarian attitudes. However, the pursuit of planetary health in Brazil is being influenced by various challenges, ranging from the need for a sound policy framework to provisions of education and training on planetary health. Based on the need to address these deficiencies, the paper suggests some measures which should be considered as part of efforts to realise the potential of planetary health in the fifth largest country in the world.

Keywords: Brazil; Education; Inequalities; Planetary health; Sustainable development goals.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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