Prioritizing Environmental Health for Healthier Communities in global recovery.

Prioritizing Environmental Health for Healthier Communities in global recovery.

We are going through difficult times, due to COVID-19, declared by the WHO as Pandemic. This Pandemic has come to demonstrate the vital role of the Environmental Health workforce worldwide to face this challenging time for all of humanity.

Investments must be made to avoid environmental degradation and pollution, in particular, not favoring the growing emission of greenhouse gases that are already known in common sense to cause global warming and promote climate change. We have to invest that same money to promote a fairer, more sustainable economy, for a more equitable, environmentally and more sustainable society, in a better, healthier and greener world (WHO, 2020).

It is necessary to ;accept ;that ;there is an integral connection between the environment, health and the economy. It is therefore important to invest in healthy and green recovery, close to all communities, with the support of the Environmental Health workforce and with collaboration from the International Federation of Environmental Health.