标题：Environmental health and the multidimensional concept of development: the role of environmental epidemiology within international cooperation initiatives
摘要：“Environmental health” and “multidimensional development process” are two concepts
that have been used and discussed since the last two decades within different conceptual frameworks.
The present paper presents and discusses an interpretation concerning the interconnection between
these two concepts in line with the integrated approach to health of environmental epidemiology and
the multidimensional development approach of socio-economic analyses. The paper aims at investigating
the environmental health and the condition of environmental health deprivation affecting
populations in developing countries, and proposes to consider them as central issues for integrated
environmental epidemiological and socio-economic investigations. The relevance and impact of this
interdisciplinary approach to investigate the different and interconnected dimensions of poverty are
here discussed. Moreover, this paper points out the role of technical and scientific cooperation in
environmental epidemiology presenting the experience of a bilateral scientific cooperation between
the Istituto Superiore di Sanità and IFA, an Ecuadorian non-governmental organization.
