Health promotion involves social and environmental interventions designed to benefit and protect health. It often harmfully impacts the environment through air and water pollution, medical waste, greenhouse gas emissions, and other externalities. We consider potential conflicts between health promotion and environmental protection and why and how the healthcare industry might promote health while protecting environments. After probing conflicts between promoting health and protecting the environment we highlight the essential role that environmental resources play in health and healthcare to show that environmental protection is a form of health promotion. We then explore relationships between three radical forms of health promotion and the environment: (1) lowering the human birth rate; (2) transforming the food system; and (3) genetically modifying mosquitos. We conclude that healthcare and other industries and their institutions and leaders have responsibilities to re-consider and modify their priorities, policies, and practices.

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健康促进会危害环境吗？

促进健康涉及旨在有益于和保护健康的社会和环境干预措施。它通常通过空气和水污染，医疗废物，温室气体排放和其他外部因素对环境造成有害影响。我们考虑健康促进与环境保护之间的潜在冲突，以及医疗行业在保护环境的同时为何以及如何促进健康。在探讨了促进健康和保护环境之间的冲突之后，我们强调了环境资源在健康和医疗保健中的重要作用，以表明环境保护是促进健康的一种形式。然后，我们探索健康促进的三种基本形式与环境之间的关系：（1）降低人类出生率；（2）转变食品体系；（3）对蚊子进行基因改造。我们得出的结论是，医疗保健和其他行业及其机构和领导者有责任重新考虑并修改其优先事项，政策和做法。