Ecological public health: the 21st century's big idea? An essay by Tim Lang and Geof Rayner

Lang, Tim; Rayner, Geof

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“…Implementing this materialist, monist and post-anthropocentric perspective would draw public health further into a multi-disciplinary nexus that integrates a multitude of constituencies, from planners, entrepreneurs and local politicians to earth scientists, geographers and environmentalists, along with economists and social scientists, local stakeholders and even philosophers. 52 We hope that public health professionals may deem it a worthy challenge to apply practically this perspective and this agenda for action.…”

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Sociology, environment and health: a materialist approach

Fox

Alldred

2016

Public Health

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Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) eprints@whiterose.ac.uk https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Reuse This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. This licence only allows you to download this work and share it with others as long as you credit the authors, but you can't change the article in any way or use it commercially. More information and the full terms of the licence here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Takedown If you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing eprints@whiterose.ac.uk including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. Sociology, environment and health: a materialist approach Abstract ObjectivesThis paper reviews the sociology of environment and health, and makes the case for a postanthropocentric approach based on new materialist theory. This perspective fully incorporates humans and their health into 'the environment', and in place of human-centred concerns considers the forces that constrain or enhance environmental capacities. Study designThis is not an empirical study. The paper uses a hypothetical vignette concerning child health and air pollution to explore the new materialist model advocated in the paper. MethodsNot applicable: not an empirical paper ResultsNot applicable: not an empirical paper ConclusionA new materialist and post-anthropocentric sociology of environment and health radically reconfigures both sociological theory and its application to research and associated policies on health and the environment. Theoretically, human health is re-thought as one among a number of capacities emerging from humans interactions with the social and natural world.Practically, the focus of intervention and policy shifts towards fostering social and natural interactions that enhance environmental (and in the process, human) potentiality. This approach to research and policy development has relevance for public health practice and policy.

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Sociology, environment and health: a materialist approach

Fox

Alldred

2016

Public Health

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“…Food policy scholars have argued for a move away from healthcare to prevention as the primary focus of public health (Lang and Rayner, 2012). This builds on a larger debate in public health about the importance of addressing the social determinants of health and health inequalities (McKeown, 1976, Szreter, 2002.…”

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Mediating the spaces of diet and health: A critical analysis of reporting on nutrition and colorectal cancer in the UK

Wells

2017

Geoforum

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Citation: Wells, R. (2017). Mediating the spaces of diet and health: A critical analysis of reporting on nutrition and colorectal cancer in the UK. Geoforum, 84, pp. 228-238. doi: 10.1016Geoforum, 84, pp. 228-238. doi: 10. /j.geoforum.2016 This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent AbstractThe media are one of the main arenas in which nutrition information is framed and developed. Research has shown a predominantly individualistic framing of diet--related health issues such as obesity, type--2 diabetes and coronary heart disease in international media coverage. These issues are framed as personal, 'lifestyle' issues rather than requiring policy or structural change. In addition, research has shown a tendency in nutrition research and media coverage of it, to emphasize individual ingredients or components more than overall diet. The media have a tendency to report diet related research simplistically, often without contextualization. Taking a case study approach, this paper analyses UK news media coverage and framing of British Medical Journal (BMJ) published research into dietary fibre and bowel cancer risk. I investigate how the health issue fibre and bowel cancer is framed and dissect the process of mediation (from press release to mass media to local media), analysing the shifting 'geographies of responsibility' that result. This paper argues that media coverage of research into diet and bowel cancer can be explained by the technologies, conventions and routines of media representation. Key gatekeepers were found to have an important role in framing the information that was reported. Taking a critical approach, this paper argues that like obesity, type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease, coverage of nutritional means of preventing bowel cancer is set predominantly in the 'lifestyle' frame, often laying responsibility for increasing dietary fibre at the door of the individual rather than looking at broader social, economic, or political drivers of dietary change.

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“…In addition to the psychotropic modification of 'neural signatures', psychiatry must address the relations of patients to their immediate social nexus (family therapy, occupational therapy, social support). More broadly, psychiatric public health should address the social matrix at a population level; such a therapeutic framework is provided by the 'ecological public health' articulated by Lang & Rayner (2012), which integrates material, bio logical, social and cultural aspects in understanding the determinants of disease.…”

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Physical and mental illnesses: implications of similarities and differences for services and law

Roche

2013

Int. psychiatry

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It appears self-evident that psychiatry should be classified as a particular specialty within the broader field of medicine. Psychiatrists, being first and foremost doctors, have undertaken an identical basic training to their physician and surgical peers and, as in general medicine and surgery, the biomedical model is a central pillar of psychiatric practice. Within psychiatry, signs and symptoms are elicited, diagnoses made and very often physical interventions (in the form of psychotropic agents) are employed. However, familiar institutional conventions can conceal the fact that psychiatry suffers from greater uncertainty regarding its conceptual foundations than other fields of medicine. In fact, the conceptual challenges arising within psychiatry are reflected in its thriving field of philosophy, and although there exists a dedicated philosophy of medicine, no other specialty is equal to psychiatry's breadth of conceptual debate.

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Ecological public health: the 21st century's big idea? An essay by Tim Lang and Geof Rayner

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Cited by 193 publications

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Sociology, environment and health: a materialist approach

Sociology, environment and health: a materialist approach

Mediating the spaces of diet and health: A critical analysis of reporting on nutrition and colorectal cancer in the UK

Physical and mental illnesses: implications of similarities and differences for services and law

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