Defining Environmental Health Literacy

Hoover, Anna

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-94108-0_1

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“…The natural interdependence of science literacy, health literacy, and environmental literacy have led to the evolution of current environmental health literacy (EHL) frameworks [8,9,10,11,12,13]. The Society for Public Health Education states that EHL “integrates concepts from both environmental literacy and health literacy to develop the wide range of skills and competencies that people need in order to seek out, comprehend, evaluate, and use environmental health information to make informed choices, reduce health risks, improve quality of life and protect the environment” [14].…”

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Increasing Environmental Health Literacy through Contextual Learning in Communities at Risk

Davis

Ramírez‐Andreotta

McLain

et al. 2018

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Environmental health literacy (EHL) has recently been defined as the continuum of environmental health knowledge and awareness, skills and self-efficacy, and community action. In this study, an interdisciplinary team of university scientists, partnering with local organizations, developed and facilitated EHL trainings with special focus on rainwater harvesting and water contamination, in four communities with known environmental health stressors in Arizona, USA. These participatory trainings incorporated participants’ prior environmental health risk knowledge and personal experiences to co-create training content. Mixed methods evaluation was conducted via pre-post participant surveys in all four trainings (n = 53). Participants who did not demonstrate baseline environmental science knowledge pre-training demonstrated significant knowledge increase post-training, and participants who demonstrated low self-efficacy (SE) pre-training demonstrated a significant increase in SE post-training. Participants overall demonstrated a significant increase in specific environmental health skills described post-training. The interdisciplinary facilitator-scientist team also reported multiple benefits, including learning local knowledge that informed further research, and building trust relationships with community members for future collaboration. We propose contextual EHL education as a valuable strategy for increasing EHL in environmental health risk communities, and for building academia-community partnerships for environmental health research and action.

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Increasing Environmental Health Literacy through Contextual Learning in Communities at Risk

Davis

Ramírez‐Andreotta

McLain

et al. 2018

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“…Environmental health literacy is a growing area of interest within the field of environmental health research that examines the understanding of the connection between surroundings and health [11]. In the 2019 book "Environmental Health Literacy," the first chapter defines the concept as "The basic knowledge and skills needed for comprehending environmental health risks and for devising, assessing, implementing and evaluating potential solutions [12]." There are several theoretical frameworks that have been proposed to develop environmental health literacy.…”

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Developing Youth Environmental Health Literacy and Civic Leadership through Community Air Monitoring in Imperial County, California

Madrigal

Claustro

Wong

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With a rapidly changing climate, new leaders must be trained to understand and act on emerging environmental threats. In California’s Imperial Valley, a collaborative of community members, researchers, and scientists developed a community air monitoring network to provide local residents with better air quality information. To expand the reach of the project and to prepare the next generation of youth leaders we developed an internship program to increase environmental health literacy and civic leadership. In the 10-week program, high school students learned about air quality science, respiratory health, community air monitoring, and policies intended to improve air quality. The students learned to present this information to their peers, neighbors, family, and community leaders. The program used participatory approaches familiar to community-engaged research to center the students’ experience. Surveys and interviews with the students were used to assess the program and found that the students became more familiar with air quality policies, increased their ability to use air monitoring resources, and increased their own confidence in their ability to effect change. With the growing threats related to environmental hazards, it is vital to prepare youth leaders to understand, communicate, and act.

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“…Environmental health literacy (EHL) is an emerging framework [22] that aims to promote competent citizens that are able to know, give value and contribute to the creation of a healthy environment and to improve the quality of life [23,24]. Despite having a different objective, EHL shares similarities with other literacies like health literacy (HL) or environmental literacy (EL) [23].…”

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Development of Environmental Health Competencies through Compulsory Education. A Polyhedral Approach Based on the SDGs

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This paper focuses on the competencies in environmental health acquired by students during compulsory education. Questionnaires addressing environmental health problems were completed by 923 students of primary and secondary schools from five different Spanish regions. The results for five challenging situations related to hunger, consumerism, climate change, pollution in the cities and allergies are analysed according to the internal coherence of each sub-competency, i.e., addressing knowledge, skills and attitudes towards these topics. Our results show that problems related to air and water pollution were the most commonly described by the students. Focusing on competency achievement, the higher the educational level, the higher the score students obtained, especially regarding pollution and climate change, two problems that appear directly in the school curriculum. The complexity of the concept of environmental health matches with the necessary holistic perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals in a polyhedral approach including as many factors (facets) as necessary to complete the approach to this evolving concept.

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Defining Environmental Health Literacy

Cited by 29 publications

References 54 publications

Increasing Environmental Health Literacy through Contextual Learning in Communities at Risk

Increasing Environmental Health Literacy through Contextual Learning in Communities at Risk

Developing Youth Environmental Health Literacy and Civic Leadership through Community Air Monitoring in Imperial County, California

Development of Environmental Health Competencies through Compulsory Education. A Polyhedral Approach Based on the SDGs

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