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Descriptor English: Environmental Health Education
Descriptor Spanish: Educación en Salud Ambiental
Descriptor educación en salud ambiental
Entry term(s) educación ambiental
Scope note: Proceso de aprendizaje que se desarrolla a largo plazo a través de acciones que apuntan a despertar y sensibilizar sobre la necesidad y la importancia de recuperarse, preservar y conservar los recursos naturales y la biodiversidad, es decir, el medio ambiente con un todo. Además, se hace necesario que tales acciones estén correlacionadas con cuestiones de carácter social y cultural. Puede ser desarrollada y aplicada a diferentes segmentos de la sociedad, a través de una acción planificada y desarrollada con responsabilidad para que sea posible la formación de ciudadanos aptos para tener posicionamientos críticos sobre la sostenibilidad. (Adaptación y traducción libre del original: Consórcio PCJ, 2005. Disponible en: http://agua.org.br)
Descriptor Portuguese: Educação em Saúde Ambiental
Descriptor French: Éducation Environnementale
Entry term(s): Environmental Education
Tree number(s): SP4.404
Scope note: A long-term learning process, through actions that aim to awaken and raise awareness about the need and importance of recovering, preserving and conserving natural resources and biodiversity, that is, the environment as a whole. In addition, it is necessary that such actions be correlated with social and cultural issues. It can be developed and applied to different segments of society, through a planned and developed action with responsibility to enable the formation of citizens capable of having critical positions on sustainability. (Free adaptation and translation from the original: Consórcio PCJ, 2005. Available in: http://agua.org.br)
Allowable Qualifiers: MT methods
Related: Health Education MeSH
Sanitary Engineering Education DeCS
DeCS ID: 32453
Unique ID: DDCS032453
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Environmental Health Education - Preferred
Concept UI FD00060396
Scope note A long-term learning process, through actions that aim to awaken and raise awareness about the need and importance of recovering, preserving and conserving natural resources and biodiversity, that is, the environment as a whole. In addition, it is necessary that such actions be correlated with social and cultural issues. It can be developed and applied to different segments of society, through a planned and developed action with responsibility to enable the formation of citizens capable of having critical positions on sustainability. (Free adaptation and translation from the original: Consórcio PCJ, 2005. Available in: http://agua.org.br)
Preferred term Environmental Health Education
Entry term(s) Environmental Education



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