saúde ambiental

The branch of public health concerned with environmental factors that affect human health. Brazil's environmental health challenges include mercury contamination from Amazon gold mining (garimpeiros) affecting indigenous communities, deforestation-linked disease spread, and urban pollution. The WHO has identified Amazonian deforestation as a direct threat to public health through increased zoonotic disease spillover.

“O desmatamento da Amazônia aumenta o risco de doenças zoonóticas, ameaçando a saúde ambiental global.”

In English: “Amazon deforestation increases the risk of zoonotic diseases, threatening global environmental health.”