title: [The interface of public healthcare with the health of the oceans: proliferation of disease, socio-economic impacts and beneficial relationships].
abstract: Over the past decades, human activities have had a heavy impact on the marine environment, causing alterations in ecological processes. The relationship between the health of the oceans, human activities and public healthcare is already generally accepted, though the mechanisms involved are still under scientific scrutiny. These relationships include a focus on climate change, toxic algal blooms, microbial and chemical contamination in marine waters and bioinvasion by exotic species. Moreover, there is the beneficial effect of the oceans on human health and wellbeing, such as natural products for the human diet, the development of biomedicine, or simply the satisfaction derived from human recreation, sports and other interactions of humans with oceans. The importance of appreciating the link between public healthcare and the health of the oceans is especially important due to the growing number of people living in coastal areas, mainly in tropical and subtropical regions. The backcloth to this is risk-related human activities that pose a danger to marine environmental health and the increase in the vulnerability of humans and biodiversity and socio-environmental iniquity.
authors.affiliation: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. jailsonfm@gmail.com
authors.forename: Jailson Fulgencio
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: de Moura
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cardozo
authors.forename: Mariana Soares da Silva Peixoto
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Belo
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hacon
authors.forename: Salvatore
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Siciliano
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004782:Environmental Health; D006801:Humans; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D011634:Public Health; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors