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Exploring Ecosystems and Health by Shifting to a Regional Focus: Perspectives from the Oceania EcoHealth Chapter
This article highlights contributions that can be made to the public health field by incorporating “ecosystem approaches to health” to tackle future environmental and health challenges at a regional level. This qualitative research reviews attitudes and understandings of the relationship between pub...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4626995/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26473903 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph121012706 |
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author | Kingsley, Jonathan Patrick, Rebecca Horwitz, Pierre Parkes, Margot Jenkins, Aaron Massy, Charles Henderson-Wilson, Claire Arabena, Kerry |
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description | This article highlights contributions that can be made to the public health field by incorporating “ecosystem approaches to health” to tackle future environmental and health challenges at a regional level. This qualitative research reviews attitudes and understandings of the relationship between public health and the environment and the priorities, aspirations and challenges of a newly established group (the Oceania EcoHealth Chapter) who are attempting to promote these principles. Ten semi-structured interviews with Oceania EcoHealth Chapter members highlighted the important role such groups can play in informing organisations working in the Oceania region to improve both public health and environmental outcomes simultaneously. Participants of this study emphasise the need to elevate Indigenous knowledge in Oceania and the role regional groups play in this regard. They also emphasis that regional advocacy and ecosystem approaches to health could bypass silos in knowledge and disciplinary divides, with groups like the Oceania EcoHealth Chapter acting as a mechanism for knowledge exchange, engagement, and action at a regional level with its ability to bridge the gap between environmental stewardship and public health. |
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spelling | pubmed-46269952015-11-12 Exploring Ecosystems and Health by Shifting to a Regional Focus: Perspectives from the Oceania EcoHealth Chapter Kingsley, Jonathan Patrick, Rebecca Horwitz, Pierre Parkes, Margot Jenkins, Aaron Massy, Charles Henderson-Wilson, Claire Arabena, Kerry Int J Environ Res Public Health Article This article highlights contributions that can be made to the public health field by incorporating “ecosystem approaches to health” to tackle future environmental and health challenges at a regional level. This qualitative research reviews attitudes and understandings of the relationship between public health and the environment and the priorities, aspirations and challenges of a newly established group (the Oceania EcoHealth Chapter) who are attempting to promote these principles. Ten semi-structured interviews with Oceania EcoHealth Chapter members highlighted the important role such groups can play in informing organisations working in the Oceania region to improve both public health and environmental outcomes simultaneously. Participants of this study emphasise the need to elevate Indigenous knowledge in Oceania and the role regional groups play in this regard. They also emphasis that regional advocacy and ecosystem approaches to health could bypass silos in knowledge and disciplinary divides, with groups like the Oceania EcoHealth Chapter acting as a mechanism for knowledge exchange, engagement, and action at a regional level with its ability to bridge the gap between environmental stewardship and public health. MDPI 2015-10-13 2015-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4626995/ /pubmed/26473903 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph121012706 Text en © 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Kingsley, Jonathan Patrick, Rebecca Horwitz, Pierre Parkes, Margot Jenkins, Aaron Massy, Charles Henderson-Wilson, Claire Arabena, Kerry Exploring Ecosystems and Health by Shifting to a Regional Focus: Perspectives from the Oceania EcoHealth Chapter |
title | Exploring Ecosystems and Health by Shifting to a Regional Focus: Perspectives from the Oceania EcoHealth Chapter |
title_full | Exploring Ecosystems and Health by Shifting to a Regional Focus: Perspectives from the Oceania EcoHealth Chapter |
title_fullStr | Exploring Ecosystems and Health by Shifting to a Regional Focus: Perspectives from the Oceania EcoHealth Chapter |
title_full_unstemmed | Exploring Ecosystems and Health by Shifting to a Regional Focus: Perspectives from the Oceania EcoHealth Chapter |
title_short | Exploring Ecosystems and Health by Shifting to a Regional Focus: Perspectives from the Oceania EcoHealth Chapter |
title_sort | exploring ecosystems and health by shifting to a regional focus: perspectives from the oceania ecohealth chapter |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4626995/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26473903 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph121012706 |
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