Sustainability And Health

by Brown, Valerie A.; Grootjans, John; Ritchie, Jan; Townsend, Mardie

• ISBN13: 9781844071739
• ISBN10: 1844071731
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-28
• Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

Summary

* "This is the only text...that brings together content needed to bridge the innovative link between "sustainability" and "health"... the book was highly rated by my class" -- Dr. Colin Soskolne, University of Alberta, Dept of Public Health Sciences * A major new textbook in public health that links ecological health with human health -- ideal for university students and public health practitioners * Offers practical solutions for health issues across environmental, economic, and social systems * Pilot tested in major public health universities in the UK (Glasgow, Cardiff and Essex), Europe (Maastricht University and Hamburg Technical University), Australia, and North America The zone of interaction between the social and the natural environment is the most important emerging area in public health. Radical changes in the biosphere and human interaction with the environment are increasingly impacting the health of populations across the world. Whether the risk is from diseases crossing species boundaries, pollution of water, air and land, global pandemics, or new patterns of cancer, it is now clear that human health and the health of the global environment are inexorably linked. Drawing on a range of scientific findings, "Sustainability and Health" offers a thorough background and solutions to overlapping issues in environment and health. The book introduces a range of emerging conceptual frameworks and theoretical perspectives, links IT and epidemiology, and explains how scoping can link program design, delivery, data collection, and evaluation from the beginning. Taking a learning approach the authors provide activities, readings, and international case studies making this an essential resource for students and professionals.

Table of Contents

Learning Activities	vii
Boxes and Figures	viii
Acknowledgements	x
Glossary	xiii
Prologue: The way in	xvii
Living: Public health and the future of life on the planet	1	(38)
Health and sustainability: a new direction for public health	3	(8)
Defining sustainable development: moving to sustainability	11	(7)
New ideas for new public health: overview of recommended readings	18	(3)
Integrative decision-making about place-based issues (D4P4): an open learning framework	21	(7)
Sustainability as public health practice: criteria for future-oriented practitioners	28	(11)
Listening: Co-ordinating ideas on sustainability and health	39	(42)
Sustainability and health	41	(2)
Sustainability and science	43	(5)
Sustainability and economics	48	(11)
Sustainability and environmentalism	59	(22)
Grounding: Co-ordinating contexts for sustainability and health	81	(50)
Frameworks and tools	83	(1)
Strategic frameworks	84	(9)
Health-based frameworks	93	(13)
Environmental frameworks	106	(15)
Holistic frameworks	121	(10)
Knowing: Linking the knowledge cultures of sustainability and health	131	(32)
Evidence-based public health	133	(10)
Multiple knowledges	143	(6)
Strategies for synthesis	149	(3)
Tools for synthesis	152	(11)
Scoping: Designing and monitoring sustainability and health programs	163	(36)
Monitoring strategies: what we believe we need to know	165	(4)
The decision-making spiral: what we know we need to know	169	(4)
The file, the grid and the cycle: what we know we don't know	173	(10)
Working with others: what we don't know we don't know	183	(4)
Scoping the program stages: what we now know we need to know	187	(12)
Acting: Practitioners as actors for sustainability and health	199	(44)
Systems thinking	201	(11)
Planning the action	212	(14)
Acting together	226	(9)
Acting individually	235	(8)
Innovating: Practitioners as innovators for sustainability and health	243	(30)
Structural change for sustainability	245	(6)
Capacity building for structural change	251	(11)
Education for sustainability	262	(5)
Research for sustainability	267	(6)
Managing: Public health leadership and management for sustainability	273	(34)
The challenge to public health of managing for sustainability	275	(2)
Analysing issues at multiple levels	277	(1)
Managing complex systems: three organisational forms	278	(4)
Managing hierarchical or formal organisations for sustainability	282	(8)
Managing networks and communities for sustainability	290	(6)
Managing markets for sustainability	296	(4)
Leadership and drivers for sustainability: the role of public health	300	(7)
Epilogue: The way forward	307	(8)
The editors	315	(4)
Index	319