Environmental Health Behavior

Ana Virgolino is a health and clinical psychologist and a researcher at the Institute of Environmental Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, where she has been working on several projects linked to environmental health, mental health, epidemiology, and behavioral change, also involving interventions at the community. She is the responsible investigator for the participation of the Lisbon Faculty of Medicine in several international projects in the area of human biomonitoring.Osvaldo Santos is a clinical and health psychologist, and psychotherapist. He is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL), teaching several topics of health psychology, quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods applied to different areas of health psychology, health promotion, public health, and environmental health. He is the head of the Environmental Health Behavior Lab, at the Institute of Environmental Health of FMUL. He led several international projects in different health psychology areas, focusing on health behavior change. More recently, he has coordinated several local health promotion strategies, envisioning the transformation of environments to support healthy behaviors adoption. His work has been recognized with several scientific awards. He is one of the most cited Portuguese psychologists, with publications in several of the most relevant scientific journals worldwide (including Nature, Science, and The Lancet).Ricardo R. Santos is a Board-certified Biologist. He is a Researcher at the Institute of Environmental Health and a Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon (UL). He is also a doctoral researcher at the NOVA Institute of Communication, an associate member of the ICS-UL Human-Animal Studies Hub, an associate member of the UL Tropical College, and a steering committee member of the DASH – The Doctor as a Humanist. His research work and lecturing covers a variety of areas, including science communication, ethics and bioethics, environmental health, one health, planetary health, climate change, science and art, animal studies, and grief.

• 1. Tragedy of the commons, againRicardo R. Santos2. Did we evolve to live healthily? How natural selection shaped our body, our behavior, and the way we interact with the environmentPaulo Gama Mota3. A different light on environmental healthAna Virgolino, Ricardo R. Santos, and Osvaldo Santos4. Cultural and civilizational determinants of environmental healthFilipe Duarte Santos5. Environmental health behavior as a unifying concept for public health and planetary healthOsvaldo Santos6. Promoting health behavior change across different environments: Universal principles of behavior modification at individual and community levelNuno Loureiro, Adilson Marques, Celeste Simoes, Filipa Coelhoso, Susana Gaspar, Ana Virgolino, Osvaldo Santos, and Margarida Gaspar de Matos7. Social and affective environments: The importance of family ecosystems for positive development during adolescenceTania Gaspar, Ines Camacho, Ana Cerqueira,Fabio Botelho Guedes, Gina Tome, and Margarida Gaspar de Matos8. The whole-school ecosystem approach for promoting health and satisfaction with life among adolescentsGina Tome, Marta Reis, Catia Branquinho, Adriano Almeida, Lucia Ramiro, Tania Gaspar, and Margarida Gaspar de Matos9. Impact of the natural and built environment on human health: A perspective from environmental psychologyFatima Bernardo10. How smart cities can promote healthy behaviorsCarla Goncalves Pereira11. The impact of developing green and exercise-friendly spaces in deprived neighborhoods on health and healthy lifestyles: A systematic literature reviewFrancisco von Hafe, Judite Goncalves, and Ceu Mateus12. Digital environments: Additional environmental layers for environmental health behaviorOsvaldo Santos13. Environmental migration and human rights: Clues for the debateVioleta Alarcao, Pedro Candeias, and Miodraga Stefanovska-Petkovska14. Environmental change, mental health, and well-beingGuilherme Queiroz, Luıs Madeira, and Maria Joao Heitor15. From diagnosis to treatment of mental disorders in a world of accelerated environmental changesFilipa Novais, Teresa Reynolds Sousa, and Diogo Telles Correia16. Psychology of homelessness, home, and environmentElias Barreto17. Challenges from patterns of human behaviors and drought: Environmental and human health risksCoral Salvador18. Energy poverty: Overview and illustrative caseAna Horta and Luısa Schmidt19. The environmental footprint of the healthcare systemRodrigo Feteira-Santos20. Health and environmental risk communication: Avoiding risk information avoidance and unintentional message framing effectsAzita Kloever and Rui Gaspar

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