Abstract
Environment and health are considered global common good because both health and environment makes the world a global community. A global public health disaster like the Covid-19 pandemic automatically reminds us that we are a global community and that no one exists without the other's support. Hence, the deterioration of one part of the world is a threat to the global community. An outbreak of pandemic in one part of the world is also a threat to the global community, for example, SARS, Ebola, and the ongoing COVID 19. Environmental degradation and pandemic breed chaos, violence, anarchy, fear, death, and infections. They make people vulnerable to diseases and death. Environment and health are also linked to global security. The scarcity of resources, especially renewable ones, is a threat to global peace – eco-violence. Health too is linked positively to security and socio-economic development because epidemics and pandemics are not only threats to human health; they also hurt economic and socio-political life. The outbreak of Coronavirus is an excellent example. It causes anxiety, fear, and worry about biosecurity and micro-organisms that can be used as bioweapons. Therefore, there is a connection between health, environment, and security. These three elements connect all human beings directly or indirectly together. In the recent past, Africa and West Africa have witnessed some epidemics like Ebola and lesser fever that threaten the region and the global community. Health, environment, disease, and the divinity in African are linked together because ill-health is understood from religious and environmental backgrounds. Therefore, the ongoing Covid-19, because of its mode of transmission, is environmentally linked. The presentation discusses: the global health community, the relationship between human beings and nature, and African understating of health.
Highlights
Recently, many places have been threatened by public health disasters, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, epidemics, and the current COVI-19 pandemic
This paper looks at the connection between public health disaster with the environment in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic from an African perspective
The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects calls on us to "rethink our styles of life, our relationship, the organization of our societies and above all, the meaning of human existence."7 It is no doubt that COVID-19 Pandemic explains the dynamism in social and health relationship in the global community because an outbreak of epidemic or pandemic in one part of the world is a threat to the global community like SARS, Ebola, and the ongoing COVID 19
Summary
Many places have been threatened by public health disasters, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, epidemics, and the current COVI-19 pandemic. The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects calls on us to "rethink our styles of life, our relationship, the organization of our societies and above all, the meaning of human existence." It is no doubt that COVID-19 Pandemic explains the dynamism in social and health relationship in the global community because an outbreak of epidemic or pandemic in one part of the world is a threat to the global community like SARS, Ebola, and the ongoing COVID 19. These were ways of encouraging the poor and vulnerable that "we are all in this together." Governments of various nations stepped in with social, economic, and health services packages and assistance to support their citizens It brought international solidarity as nations share and exchange knowledge, 9World Health Organization’s Regional Office Europe, Protecting nature protects health – lessons for the future from COVID-19, https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/healthemergencies/coronavirus-covid-19/news/news/2020/6/protecting-nature-protects-health-lessons-forthe-future-from-covid-19 accessed November 25, 2020 10Afolabi Michael Olusegun, Public Health Disaster: A Global Ethical Framework, Switzerland, Springer, 2018, 26. The global community should maintain this spirit of solidarity and cooperation that the pandemic brought to promote future solidarity and support for the most vulnerable nations and individuals. it has brought in short term cleaner air, reduced carbon emissions, and less noise because of restriction and reduction in transport and economic activities.
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