MINI REVIEW article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Environmental Health and Exposome
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1620117
This article is part of the Research TopicClimate Change, Air Pollution, and Health Inequality: Vulnerability of Marginalized PopulationsView all 14 articles
Climate Change from the Perspective of the New Public Health
Provisionally accepted
- 1Faculty of Health Studies, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
- 2Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
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The modern-day ecological crisis and gradual degradation of the environment, mostly due to anthropogenic effects, surpass other contemporary societal issues. Despite being largely perceived through a (bio)medical lens, the complexity of climate change as a topic is seen in different trends concerning its impact on the living world. These include historical, economic, cultural and social dimensions. Scientific publications are increasingly directed towards social sciences and humanities, and an increasing number of works go beyond exclusively medical approaches. Therefore, there is a need for an integrated and interdisciplinary approach resulting in more comprehensive measures to allow society to recover, but which also exploit the positive potential of climate change, through models and methods that the New Public Health can provide. Starting from the definition of the New Public Health, this paper combines and connects two topics, New Public Health and climate change, that are rarely explored together in the literature. The aim is to fill the gaps in the public health literature, where climate change is frequently viewed solely as a medical or health issue; here, we frame it as a critical challenge encompassing social, humanistic, and environmental dimensions. In addition, we offer a conceptual contribution that emphasizes their interconnection within the context of contemporary challenges.
Keywords: Climate Change, The new public health, Ecological crisis, society, adaptation
Received: 29 Apr 2025; Accepted: 08 Jul 2025.
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* Correspondence: Toni Buterin, Faculty of Health Studies, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
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