Health Sciences 3025A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Environmental Governance, Scientific Method, Chagas Disease

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3025A/B
• Professor: culm

Document Summary

Tools for thoughtful action: the role of ecosystem approaches to health in enhancing. Slowly public health discourse is shifting their focus from a biological and exposure to embrace the concept of determinants of health: extending to social, economic and environmental realms. Before: we looked at health, economics, ecosystems and society in a disaggregated way. But we are now learning that is not effective and very limiting: we are shifting to a integrative scientific method. Ecologic approach to human health emphasized interactions among determinants of health. Systematic and participatory approaches to understanding and promoting human health and wellbeing in the context of complex social and ecological interactions. Takes into account inequalities in environments as well. Ecohealth approaches to health consider population health as arising within nested physical, socio-cultural and political hierarchies. The canadian international development and research centre: funds all ecohealth approaches to health. Does not take part in the research. Toxic containments in food: especially with fish.