References Events
The rapidly changing, chemicalised and polluted world of today is resulting in the human body’s increasing inability to cope with substances in the environment. Environmental hazards are a serious threat to public health and well-being, while impact is often large-scale and irreversible. Changes in ecosystems as a result of environmental deterioration may influence the growth, transmission and activity of many infectious diseases. Human health is likely to be adversely affected, either directly or indirectly, through complex interactions of biological systems.
Soil and air pollution, water contamination and inadequate food production, due to soil erosion and acidification, are just a few agents that can prove detrimental to public health and all stem from poor environmental management. Without proper understanding of the urgent need to halt environmental deterioration, it will be impossible to counter these threats. Since modern medicine stresses prevention as superior to treatment, efforts should focus on eliminating the sources of pollution, and establishing a “healthy” and clean environment.
The environment and human health have been a priority for B.I.O. since 1985. Many contributors to the volumes of proceedings from our international conferences have addressed these issues, and over 15 articles have been published in BioNews. Within the framework of the European Union’s Leonardo da Vinci Programme, B.I.O. has prepared teaching manuals in English and Greek to be used in vocational training programmes in several European countries. A comprehensive volume on “Bio-Health” is published in Bio-Syllabus for European Environmental Education, an 880-page textbook available in print and electronically (CD-Rom). Based on this pioneering material is B.I.O.’s e-learning course on “Health and the Environment,” which is offered in English and Greek within the framework of our extensive e-learning programme.
References
TEXTBOOKS
- Bio-Syllabus for European Environmental Education
A. Vlavianos-Arvanitis (Ed.), Biopolitics International Organisation, Athens 2002, 880 pp. - HEALTH AND THE BIO-ENVIRONMENT
SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
A. Vlavianos-Arvanitis (English, 112 pp.), (Greek, 127 pp.) 2004 - BIOPOLITICS – DIMENSIONS OF BIOLOGY
A. Vlavianos-Arvanitis, Athens, 1985 - BIOPOLITICS – THE BIO-ENVIRONMENT – BIO-SYLLABUS
A. Vlavianos-Arvanitis. A model global bio-education promoted by the International University for the Bio-Environment, 1992
– Bio-Technology
A. Vlavianos-Arvanitis
PROCEEDINGS
- BIOPOLITICS – THE BIO-ENVIRONMENT – VOLUME I
A. Vlavianos-Arvanitis (Ed.) Proceedings from the First B.I.O International Conference, Athens, May 1987
– Bio-engineering – medical dimensions
George M. Maniatis
– Long-term air pollution effects and health
Horst Malberg
– Influences of air pollution and weather on croup syndrome and obstructive respiratory tract diseases of children in Berlin (West)
Ulrich Fegeler
– Nutrition – single cell protein twenty years later
Cleanthis J. Israelidis
– Lake restoration in Berlin
Gunther Klein - BIOPOLITICS – THE BIO-ENVIRONMENT – VOLUME II
Bios in the Next Millennium
A. Vlavianos-Arvanitis (Ed.) Proceedings from the Second B.I.O International Conference, Athens, October 1988
– Health for all by the year 2000
Erich Taubert - BIOPOLITICS – THE BIO-ENVIRONMENT – VOLUME III
The International University for the Bio-Environment
A. Vlavianos-Arvanitis (Ed.) Proceedings from the Fourth B.I.O International Conference, Athens, January 1991
– Biomedical and ecological conditions in the creation of bio-environment
Edward Kamienski - BIOPOLITICS – THE BIO-ENVIRONMENT – VOLUME V
International Sakharov Festival
A. Vlavianos-Arvanitis (Ed.) Proceedings from the Sixth B.I.O International Conference, Athens, July 1994
– Russia and Siberia: health problems in environmentally damaged territories
Sergei I. Kolesnikov
– Bio-environment and research on health
Gustav V.R. Born
– Environmental co-operation and children’s health
Sirje Loot
– Biometeorology and quality of life
Doina Popescu
– The rhythm of bios
Hossein S. Mehraban
– An extravagant promise for the future: clean air over Central and Eastern Europe
George J. Kollmann
– New technology and the professional healthy man
Yuri I. Voronkov
– Bio-environmental quality, health and peace
Lev Fishelson - BIOPOLITICS – BIO-DIPLOMACY AND INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION
A. Vlavianos-Arvanitis (Ed.) Proceedings from a Hellenic-Russian Symposium, Athens, December 1991
– The influence of the environment on the health of future generations
Sergei I. Kolesnikov
– Women’s health and the environment
Irina A. Manuilova
– The destruction of the environment and the disorganised personality
Ludmila P. Bueva
Bio News
- Bio News 1
– page 10
Health – Good News and Bad News - Bio News 3
– page 8
Assessing Bio-Technology
Christos Yapijakis - Bio News 4
– pages 2, 8
Bio-Environmental Quality, Health and Peace
Lev Fishelson - Bio News 10
– page 10
Sustainable Soil, Water and Air Quality
J. Patrick Nicholson - Bio News 18
– page 9
Bio-Agriculture - Bio News 24
– page 9
Bio-Health
– pages 10-11
Bio-Health – Air, Soil, Water - Bio News 26
– page 16
Bio-Health - Bio News 28
– page 3
Health and the Environment
– page 14
Environment and Quality of Life
Nicholas Dontas
Health and the Environment
Dimitris Papathanasiou
Sustainability in Agriculture and the Food Industry
Dimitris Randopoulos - Bio News 36
– Page 13, Health and disease – discoveries from bio-archaeology
– Page 14, Agriculture and Health – New bio-educational modules - Bio News 40
– Page 7, Health and the Bio-Environment: Scientific Advances and Environmental Ethics
Events
2001
- Bio-Environment – Health and Olympic Values” keynote presentation at the Eighth International Physical Therapy Symposium, Cephalonia, Greece
1997
- “Biopolitics and Health Issues,” lecture for the medical personnel at “Ygeia” hospital, Athens. BioNews no. 12, Oct. 1997, p.4. Programme
1992
- Lecture, Symposium on Mental Health, Zappeion, Athens. Programme
1989
- The Welsh campaign against cancer promoted the bios concept
1988
- Bio-Health was discussed extensively at the Second B.I.O. International Conference. “Bios in the Next Millennium,” Athens. Programme
1987
- Bio-Health was extensively discussed at the First B.I.O. International Conference. “Biopolitics and International Co- operation,” with the participation of leading representatives from 30 nations. Resolutions promoting B.I.O. ideals world-wide were unanimously accepted by all participants, who also pledged to become founding members of B.I.O. BioNews no. 1
- Participation in the AIDS International Conference, Paris
