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Medicine & Public Health
Environmental Health
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Policy Frameworks on Health and Environment Linkages
The linkages between human health and environmental conditions are well established. Yet the extent to which environmental actions and health actions are coordinated to jointly respond to environment and healt...
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Examining Environmental Problems from a Critical Perspective
Since the Earth Summit in Rio, there have been growing concerns about the deteriorating state of the world’s environment and role human activities play in this transformation. Problems such as climate change, ...
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Towards a Critical Approach to Ecohealth Research and Practice
Central to the field of ecohealth is the notion that human beings are integral to nature, yet analysis of the social and political dynamics that produce environmental degradation, resource depletion, and conse...
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Exploring the Linkages Between Ecosystems and Human Health
The linkages between human health and ecosystems are complex, dynamic, and political. For millennia ecosystems have provided humans with essential services such as food, water, shelter and medicine. At the sam...
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Ecosystem Approaches to Human Health: Key Concepts and Principles
The previous chapter discussed some of the key milestones leading to the emergence of the ecosystem approach to human health. This evolution occurred in both the public health and natural resources management ...
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The Process of Conducting an Ecohealth Research Project: A Participatory Action Research Approach
The previous chapter discussed the theoretical and historical basis of community-based participatory research and some basic principles of participatory action research (PAR). It also cautioned against the unc...
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Planning for a Healthy Community: A Case Study – Phase II
This chapter builds on the first phase of the ecohealth research project that was described in the previous chapter. This chapter presents the findings of a strategic planning process (SPP) that was organized ...
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Ecosystem Approaches to Indigenous Health
Many Indigenous communities around the world have strong ties with the biophysical environment. As expressed in the opening chapter of this book, Indigenous communities see the forests as: “their food bank, dr...
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Applying Critical Theory to Environment and Health Issues
The next four chapters of this book are designed to map out a critical approach to conducting ecohealth research and explore ways of responding to ecohealth problems through a critical lens. Most traditional l...
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Examining Public Health Concerns from a Critical Perspective
The new public health discourse proposes a multi-causal and socio-ecological approach to investigating and responding to public health concerns, yet most public health research, practice, and intervention stil...
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Evolution Towards an Ecosystem Approach to Public Health
This chapter discusses the key milestones leading to the emergence of ecosystem approaches to public health thinking, research and practice. The chapter discusses events in three areas that led to public healt...
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Community-Based Participatory Research for Ecohealth
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is particularly suitable for conducting ecohealth research. As discussed in the previous chapter, one primary objective of ecohealth research is to create opportun...
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Applying an Ecosystem Approach to Community Health Research in Ghana: A Case Study
This chapter discusses an ecohealth project that was conducted in a small rural community in the Upper West Region of Ghana. Ghana is located along the West Coast of Africa and has often been referred to as an...
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Challenges and Ethical Dilemmas in Conducting Participatory Ecohealth Research
The previous chapters outlined the research methodology and processes involved in conducting an ecohealth research project, and how these were operationalized through case studies. In this chapter we step out ...
