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The Portrayal of Natural Environment in the Evolution of the Ecological Public Health Paradigm
This paper explores the conceptualization of the natural environment in an evolving ecological public health paradigm. The natural environment has long been recognized as essential to supporting life, health, and wellbeing. Our understanding of the relationship between the natural environment and he...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3924488/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24434596 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph110101005 |
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author | Coutts, Christopher Forkink, Annet Weiner, Jocelyn |
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description | This paper explores the conceptualization of the natural environment in an evolving ecological public health paradigm. The natural environment has long been recognized as essential to supporting life, health, and wellbeing. Our understanding of the relationship between the natural environment and health has steadily evolved from one of an undynamic environment to a more sophisticated understanding of ecological interactions. This evolution is reflected in a number of ecological public health models which demonstrate the many external and overlapping determinants of human health. Six models are presented here to demonstrate this evolution, each model reflecting an increasingly ecological appreciation for the fundamental role of the natural environment in supporting human health. We conclude that after decades of public health’s acceptance of the ecological paradigm, we are only now beginning to assemble knowledge of sophisticated ecological interdependencies and apply this knowledge to the conceptualization and study of the relationship between the natural environment and the determinants of human health. |
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spelling | pubmed-39244882014-02-18 The Portrayal of Natural Environment in the Evolution of the Ecological Public Health Paradigm Coutts, Christopher Forkink, Annet Weiner, Jocelyn Int J Environ Res Public Health Article This paper explores the conceptualization of the natural environment in an evolving ecological public health paradigm. The natural environment has long been recognized as essential to supporting life, health, and wellbeing. Our understanding of the relationship between the natural environment and health has steadily evolved from one of an undynamic environment to a more sophisticated understanding of ecological interactions. This evolution is reflected in a number of ecological public health models which demonstrate the many external and overlapping determinants of human health. Six models are presented here to demonstrate this evolution, each model reflecting an increasingly ecological appreciation for the fundamental role of the natural environment in supporting human health. We conclude that after decades of public health’s acceptance of the ecological paradigm, we are only now beginning to assemble knowledge of sophisticated ecological interdependencies and apply this knowledge to the conceptualization and study of the relationship between the natural environment and the determinants of human health. MDPI 2014-01-10 2014-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3924488/ /pubmed/24434596 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph110101005 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Coutts, Christopher Forkink, Annet Weiner, Jocelyn The Portrayal of Natural Environment in the Evolution of the Ecological Public Health Paradigm |
title | The Portrayal of Natural Environment in the Evolution of the Ecological Public Health Paradigm |
title_full | The Portrayal of Natural Environment in the Evolution of the Ecological Public Health Paradigm |
title_fullStr | The Portrayal of Natural Environment in the Evolution of the Ecological Public Health Paradigm |
title_full_unstemmed | The Portrayal of Natural Environment in the Evolution of the Ecological Public Health Paradigm |
title_short | The Portrayal of Natural Environment in the Evolution of the Ecological Public Health Paradigm |
title_sort | portrayal of natural environment in the evolution of the ecological public health paradigm |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3924488/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24434596 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph110101005 |
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