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Consumerism and Implications for Good Health and Well-Being

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Consumerism as a culture of overconsumption and a system of values and standards with the core focus on consumption is found to be in close correlation with human health and well-being. On the one hand, growing consumption contributes substantially to the reduction of poverty, hunger, and diseases, that is, to the health and well-being of the global population. On the other hand, the growth of consumption entails increased demand for natural resources, and consumer product manufacturing is one of the major sources of environmental pollution seriously affecting human health. The concept of sustainable development has emerged as a response to these challenges, vectoring product consumption toward human and environmental well-being, and the consumer society is making every effort to mitigate the negative impact.

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Consumption has become one of the major factors of economic growth in modern societies (Miller and Rose 2008; Ritzer and Miles 2019). Modern economies...

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Tikhaze, D., Kurilova, A. (2020). Consumerism and Implications for Good Health and Well-Being. In: Leal Filho, W., Wall, T., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P. (eds) Good Health and Well-Being. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69627-0_122-1

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