Una possibile connessione fra educazione alla salute ed educazione ambientale nel contesto dell’Enciclica Laudato si’

Abstract

Today in the era of climate change, the publication of the Encyclical Laudato si’ in 2015 has significantly contributed to increasing public attention to the ecological issue. The health service must also take up the challenge of ecological sustainability in hospitals, in the institutions of curative medicine, but also beyond this, in the areas of prevention. This means, for example, working out in each field of public health how it could contribute to ecological sustainability. This article examines a part of the sixth chapter of the encyclical to identify possible points of connection between health education and environmental education. Beyond the corresponding themes and common competencies to be developed in these two fields, the encyclical can contribute to a deeper understanding of health and environmental education in the light of ecological conversion.