Abstract

This is an exploratory study of Health and Environment conditions concerning 132 countries in the world, that lead to produce a ranking among 21 Iberoamerican countries, based on World Bank Data (2015) and the guide for sustainable planning – GPS prepared by the Future Studies Center of PUC-SP (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo) for the Observatory of the Iberoamerican Region - ORIBER. Through a mixture of Multivariate Statistical Analysis techniques this work came to a list of 10 most representative variables of Health and Environment development of the Latin American Region that help to build a rank and classified the region into levels of development, that may help for strategic planning, monitoring and control at a country and regional base

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  • Improvements on the quality of environmental and health policies can make a big difference in the quality of life of the population anywhere

  • Poorer, more unequal internally, others deal with a share of more concentrated workers in urban areas, with a more bourgeois population, that control the means of production, but dealing with so many problems that reverberate in poor health and a lack of protected environment

  • It is important to say that, Latin American region may have improved over time, there is still a long way in pursuit of sustainable development for which is the main concern of this study

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Introduction

Improvements on the quality of environmental and health policies can make a big difference in the quality of life of the population anywhere. HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT RANKING: A STUDY OF THE COUNTRIES AT THE IBEROAMERICAN REGION AND ITS CHALLENGES AHEAD

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