APPHIL 2075 Term Assignment: Health and Well-being in Urban Centers

This assignment, submitted by a student, delves into the complex relationship between urban environments and public health, particularly focusing on the challenges posed by infectious diseases within rapidly growing cities. The essay begins by defining the circular economy and its potential in addressing health issues, highlighting its focus on waste management, pollution reduction, and regeneration of natural systems. The essay then examines the impact of overcrowding, lack of basic facilities, and vector proliferation on urban residents' health, and the potential for the circular economy to offer solutions, referencing the bioeconomy and the European Commission's health policy initiatives. The assignment also discusses obstacles, challenges, and the need for sustainable development goals, drawing connections between the circular economy, health, and well-being, and concludes by emphasizing the potential of the circular economy to reduce environmental pollution and improve global health outcomes.

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PHIL 2075 2019-2020 – Assignment
Date of completion:
SECTION I:
Populate with your answers to Section I
A circular economy is that pattern of the economic framework that aims to redefine the
growth objectives of the country that will focus on the issues of the wide level of the
benefits enjoyed by the society. The definition of the circular economy also covers the
individual level of the docoupling the various economic activity from the various
consumption levels that ranges from the finite resources that will result in the designing of
the waste that will come out from the economic system. The transition of the various forms
of the renewable energy resources that will be characterized by the particular circular
model that will build upon the various economic, natural and the social capital output.
The main approach of the circular economy will be aimed at:
 Design the various forms of the waste management and the pollution reduction
levels.
 To keep the various products and the particular materials in the application process.
 To regenerate the various natural systems of the circular economy.
In a circular economy, the economic activities will build upon the overall system of the
health. The concept will be able to recognize the significance of the economy that will be
processed by the various levels that will often occur in the different biological cycles, where
the different the long term resilience measures that will generate the different business
aspects that will be applicable for the various organizations and for the individuals globally
as well as on a regional basis.
The notion of the circularity in the economic domain has very deep historical and the
various philosophical connotations. It enjoyed the revival in the various industrialized
sectors that have come across widely with the advent of the various computer based
studies that will provide with the support for the transition phase in the circular form of
the economy.
The model of the circular economy has various historical connotations that will include the
various feedback mechanisms that will generate the various living systems through the
various processes to regenerate the living systems that will provide the various resources
for the various products, the components and the materials that will be used through the
various strategies like the reuse of the wastes, the repairing and the manufacturing
mechanisms.
The various sectors of the circular economy will synthesize the various schools of thought.
They will include the various aspects of the functional service that will of the economy as a
whole .The circular economy is the particular economy that is aimed at the elimination of
the waste that will use of the resources. The circular systems will aim to improve the
various products of the various resources. This regenerative approach will be in contrast to
the various traditional form of the linear economic model (Kirchherr,Reike & Hekkert,
2017).
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The proponents of the circular economy that will suggest the various sustainable world
that will not be the single drop in the quality of the life of the consumers that will be
achieved without the rate of the loss of the revenue or the extra costs structure for the
manufacturers. The argument refers to the circular of the specific business models that will
share the profitable structure of the specific business models that will allow the individuals
who will enjoy the similar type of the products and the particular services.
On an intuitive basis, the circular form of the economy that will appear the more
sustainable than the current form of the linear economic system. The social dimension of
the sustainability standards that will allow the simplistic publications of the circular
economic system. The reviewing the various cases , they might face the difficulty level or
the additional form of the potential trade offs.
SECTION II:
Practical Ethics Essay – use this template for your essay
TITLE OF ESSAY: Health and Well Being (Primary Focus) in the Urban Centers (Cross
Cutting Theme)
INTRODUCTION (maximum 200 words)
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The rise of the recent modern cities have created the different types of the potential risks
and the associated challenges that result in the emerging form of the infectious diseases.
The various risk factors that have emerged in the urban environment in the recent world
have often lead to the proliferation of the different insects and the diseases that have
risen from the rodent vector and the associated diseases. The different urban buildings
will lack the effective fuel that will have the various ventilation mechanisms that will give
rise to the respiratory tract infections that will be acquired in the long run (Stahel,2016).
In today’s rising urbanization phase, the megacities are characterized by the various
heterogeneous factors that are characterized by the large settlements of the slums which
will lead to the overall health and the welfare schemes in the community. Within the
large setting of the urban settlement, that will depend on the living of the individuals.
Certain type of the infectious disease have been characterized by the widespread rise in
the slums. In several countries the incidence of cholera has risen from the rising level of
the urbanization. The overcrowding of the housing facilities result in the breeding
ground for the various infectious diseases such as the outbreak of the tuberculosis
disease.
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PART I: add subtitle (maximum 500 words)
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Residents who are subject to the overcrowding in the urban areas. Due to the
overcrowding measures, the residents have lacked the basic facilities of the safe drinking
water facilities or the proper and the standard measures that will become more
susceptible to the various diseases that are characterized by the soil transmission. These
infectious diseases will pose the most significant causes of the physical and the intellectual
level of the growth among the various urban residents. These infections will be among the
various important causes of the different levels of the physical and the intellectual growth
levels along with the retardation measures in the entire world that will have a major
impact on the status of the public health of the people (Geissdoerfer et.al 2017).
The focus of the issue of the overcrowding in the recently urban areas have contributed to
the increasing levels of the vector proliferation. One example of this outbreak of the
infectious disease like the Chagas Disease that is the type of the parasitic type of infection
that is caused by the Trypanosoma cruzi. The important mode of the transmission is in the
context of the infected bites of the various triatomine bugs.
Discussion.
The circular economy is often highlighted in the general terms that will be characterized
by the transition in the linear form that will offer the single and the ubiquitous definition
perspective, but there is a general consensus on the various centralized concepts that will
characterize the various resources and the research oriented focus that will be based on
the need for the closed form of the loops that will be beyond the aims of the circular
economy. There are various kinds closed loops of the material flows and the reduced
pattern of the consumption pattern of the management pattern of the different material
resources in order to cover the basic such as the changing methods of the various patterns
of the consumption levels (Korhonen, Honkasalo & Seppälä, 2018).
The key focus is thus on the minimizing objective that will assess the need of the various
inputs of the various materials and the energy that will reduce the environment along
with the resource extraction base along with the emissions of the waste generation The
general guiding principle for the minimization of the need of the various inputs of the
circular economy for the characterization of the management of the waste in the urban
areas.
The concept of the circular economy will be reflected that will include the action plan
such as the enabling the wider aspects of the economic and the social benefits such as the
greater level of the wellbeing for yielding the sustainable level of growth in the circular
economy. The circular economy will thus provide the various opportunities to create the
wellbeing and the growth levels that will provide the various useful definitions for the
report that place the various health issues that will serve the most integral to the circular
transitions of the economy.
The various frameworks also set out the various processes that will obtain the various
transition processes that will identify the various types of the various actions that will
result in some form of the funding of the various works that will include the various
innovation principles that will also include the various innovation techniques that will
support the promotion measures and the sharing of the knowledge of the various
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individuals.
PART II: add subtitle (Maximum 500 words)
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Proposal for application
There are various associated concepts that are related the various initiatives that will be
linked with the broader aspects of the circular economy. The circular economy entails the
various goals for the sustainable development along with the process of the economic
growth of the respective nations. The relation between the circular economy and health of
the individuals can be understood through the concept of the green economy.
The definition of the green economy as entailed in the circular economy model will be
provided by the United Nations Environment program for the implementation of the
various patterns of the transition phase of the circular economy as the contributing factor
for the other SDGs for promoting the level of the good health and the wellbeing of the
individuals of that particular nation.
The transition will be drawn towards the more competitive form of the low carbon level of
the economy that will largely focus on the supply side of the various economies. The
European Commission has however formulated a standardized road map that will set the
target for outlining the various targets that will be responsible for providing the various
health benefits to the people in the context of the improved levels of the air quality
standards (Murray, Skene & Haynes, 2017).
Discussion of obstacles/challenges and ways out
The relation between the health of the individuals can be understood through the concept
of the bio economy that refers to the various parts of the economy that uses and applies
the renewable biological resources ranging from the various land and the sea resources.
The concept of the bio economy forms the key element of the discussion that will include
the practice of the optimum use of the resources that will yield the various results of the
various technical cycles that will form the basic framework, of the circular economy
model.
The transition to the circular economy has various significant implications for the states
and the particular level of the priorities of the framework of the European Health Policy.
These particular priorities will include the handling mechanisms of the major disease
burdens in Europe that will be applicable for the supportive contents in the most resilient
form of the economies.
The relation between the health of the individuals and the rapid growth of the
urbanization patterns states that the different levels of the process will include its focus
on the waste management measures.
There are however various benefits in the application of the circular economy model in
the various nations. This implementation also includes the basic data source that will
highlight the various objectives of the background of the current level of the
developments in the various nations to that extent that will be able to resolve the various
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health issues of the individuals.
CONCLUSION (maximum 150 words)
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Finally it can be concluded that the transition to the circular economy would often result
in the reduction in the global level of the environmental pollution in association with the
present production and the various levels of the consumption patterns among the
various individuals. The various researches on the relationship between the health and
the urbanization and the health of the individuals have discussed about their various
benefits that will favor the vulnerable section of the populations as they are affected by
the various levels of the environmental impacts (Lieder & Rashid, 2016).
SOURCES
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Geissdoerfer, M., Savaget, P., Bocken, N. M., & Hultink, E. J. (2017). The Circular Economy–
A new sustainability paradigm?. Journal of cleaner production, 143, 757-768.
Kirchherr, J., Reike, D., & Hekkert, M. (2017). Conceptualizing the circular economy: An
analysis of 114 definitions. Resources, conservation and recycling, 127, 221-232.
Korhonen, J., Honkasalo, A., & Seppälä, J. (2018). Circular economy: the concept and its
limitations. Ecological economics, 143, 37-46.
Lieder, M., & Rashid, A. (2016). Towards circular economy implementation: a comprehensive
review in context of manufacturing industry. Journal of cleaner production, 115, 36-
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Murray, A., Skene, K., & Haynes, K. (2017). The circular economy: an interdisciplinary
exploration of the concept and application in a global context. Journal of business
ethics, 140(3), 369-380.
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Stahel, W. R. (2016). The circular economy. Nature, 531(7595), 435-438.
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