Chair Sanitas Health and Environment

Influence of the urban environment on people's health

Objectives

The current alteration of ecosystems, environmental pollution, climate change, mobility, consumption and management of resources show that the health of the planet directly affects the well-being and health of people.

It is therefore necessary to promote and promote spaces of research and knowledge dissemination between the different areas of knowledge that contribute to the care of people and the environment. Health problems and challenges are today a global issue.

The "Chair Sanitas Health and Environment" will promote multidisciplinary and appliedresearch , as well as social awareness of the concept of One Health One Health concept introduced by the WHO, which addresses the connections between human health, animal health and the environment. It aims to establish, from scientific rigor, a series of evidence and recommendations to transform the environments in which we live into healthier spaces for people, with special focus on health environments to incorporate a net zero, sustainable and biophilic vision. It will then seek to extend its application to other urban environments.

research multidisciplinary

For the realization of the Chair s research projects, different experts from the areas of health, architecture, natural sciences and data science of the University of Navarra will be involved, generating amultidisciplinary research , which integrally connects all the components of the concept. One Healthconcept: ecosystem health, animal health and human health. research projects and transformation of the health sector:

scientific knowledge dissemination

The Chair contemplates a training and communication plan to raise awareness of the relationship between health and the environment, according to the WHO's One Health concept. The aim is to train new generations in this concept, making the scientific knowledge generated by the Chair available to the whole of society. Different communication actions of general impact are planned, as well as others aimed at three different target audiences: health center workers, primary and secondary school students and society in general. They are articulated around three fundamental axes:

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