Environmental education and the health professions: framing climate change as a health issue

Adlong, William; Dietsch, Elaine

doi:10.1080/13504622.2014.930727

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“…Thus, as defended by other authors (e.g. Adlong and Dietsch, 2015), these workshops illustrate that framing environmental degradation caused by human activities as a health problem can improve awareness to help inducing individual behavioral change (reviewed in Gray, 2018) and possibly lead to higher levels of social mobilization.…”

Section: Biodiversity and Health In Schoolsmentioning

confidence: 74%

“…of health and the natural environment separately, ignoring its complexity and not contemplating the links between biodiversity and health and well-being. Still, there are some examples of educational programs focusing on these links, namely the proposal of a new concept of health literacy, Environmental Health Literacy (Finn and O'Fallon, 2017), and the framing of climate change teaching in a human health context (Adlong and Dietsch, 2015).…”

Section: Biodiversity and Health In Schoolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Health Education for Awareness and Behavioral Change and Influence

Campos

Fernandes

2018

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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Health literacy, health promotion, ecosystem approach to health, education for sustainability, social mobilization Definition Health education comprises all experiences that can inspire changes in behavior leading to improved health and well-being and also improves health literacy, ultimately leading to a more conscious, empowered and mobilized society (adapted from Nutbeam, 2000). Health, as recognized by the World Health Organization, is "…a state of physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" and well-being is a state of dynamic equilibrium between the physical, mental and social challenges faced by people and their capacity to cope with it (adapted from Dodge et al, 2012). Health education, health literacy and empowerment Health promotion and disease prevention have been common goals in health education programs. After almost six decades, health campaigns have moved the focus from the transmission of information based on rather simplistic assumptions related to how individuals respond to such actions, to more complex models that incorporate the social context and the development of personal skills to gain control over health and change behaviors towards health improvement (reviewed in Nutbeam, 2000).

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Section: Biodiversity and Health In Schoolsmentioning

confidence: 74%

Section: Biodiversity and Health In Schoolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health Education for Awareness and Behavioral Change and Influence

Campos

Fernandes

2018

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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“…The nurse-environment relationship, or the nurse's role in managing the environment so it can foster and facilitate good health, is (Adlong & Dietsch, 2015;Donnelly, 2020;Whitmee et al, 2015), the climate crisis necessitates nurses to better understand the nurse-environment relationship, and we suggest the adoption of a planetary health perspective could help.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Finally, we offer a review of the planetary health perspective and explore how nursing could benefit from adopting this perspective. Climate change is a global crisis, and nursing and other health professionals are being asked to reframe it as a major human health concern (Adlong & Dietsch, 2015). Ongoing theoretical and practice developments in nursing are essential because now, more than ever before, we need knowledgeable practitioners who will advocate for change, lead health care towards a climate-resilient future and mitigate damages already being experienced by the changing climate.…”

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Nursing’s metaparadigm, climate change and planetary health

2020

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This paper offers a theoretical discussion on why the nursing profession has had a delayed response to the issue of climate change. We suggest this delay may have been influenced by the early days of nursing's professionalization. Specifically, we examine nursing's professional mandate, the generally accepted metaparadigm, and the grand theorists’ conceptualizations of both the environment and the nurse–environment relationship. We conclude that these works may have encouraged nurses to conceptualize the environment, as well as their relationship with it, mainly in terms of the individual patient, and as such, nurses have not been encouraged to understand these concepts from a broader perspective. By not having the philosophical and theoretical foundations to understand the environment in relation to society, it is not surprising that nurses have had a delayed response to climate change and may not have viewed it as a professional concern. A planetary health perspective is suggested as a theoretical basis for nursing education, research and practice. Taking on a planetary health perspective could help nurses progress the profession and move healthcare systems towards supporting a climate‐resilient future.

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“…According to Adlong & Dietsch (2015), the likelihood of climate change having adverse effects on health is high. The mitigation of health impacts and health risks resulting from climate change is reinforced by climate call-to-action programmes that seek to implement cleaner energy production as well as other initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.…”

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confidence: 99%

Economy of Heating and Competitiveness of the State – The Link between the Life Expectancy and the Heating Fuel Type. The Case of the Slovak Republic

Špirková¹,

Kloudova²,

Ključnikov³

et al. 2019

JOC

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Protecting the environment and maintaining the EU's competitiveness must be inextricably linked. From this perspective, the scope of present article may be seen as quite timely. Air pollution is the main environmental risk factor contributing to deterioration of the health of the population, and consequently influences the economic development of the state. The usage of hard fuels for the heating of local dwellings is one of the most important sources of local air pollution. The aim of this paper is to identify the relationship between the pollution caused by heating and the health of the population. The health status of the population was assessed using the potential years of life lost per 100,000 inhabitants. Data on the energy sources used for heating were taken from a survey of all dwellings in the Slovak Republic from the 2011 census of inhabitants, homes and apartments. To create clusters of similar municipalities in terms of the variables considered, we used the fuzzy cluster analysis for individual size-standard groups of municipalities. The map view of the fuzzy cluster analysis results confirmed the division of the Slovak Republic into two regions-the north, which showed more favorable results and the south, which showed negative findings. The membership function values of the first cluster indicate a significant positive spatial autocorrelation as measured by Moran's coefficient. A local Moran cluster map identified the areas of interest investigated below.

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Environmental education and the health professions: framing climate change as a health issue

Cited by 39 publications

References 101 publications

Health Education for Awareness and Behavioral Change and Influence

Health Education for Awareness and Behavioral Change and Influence

Nursing’s metaparadigm, climate change and planetary health

Economy of Heating and Competitiveness of the State – The Link between the Life Expectancy and the Heating Fuel Type. The Case of the Slovak Republic

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