scholarly journals Urgent appeal to minimize community health impacts of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. e2020021
2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-27
Author(s):  
Angela Eykelbosh ◽  
Rochelle Maher ◽  
Davi de Ferreyro Monticelli ◽  
Andre Ramkairsingh ◽  
Sarah Henderson ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 163-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abee L. Boyles ◽  
Robyn B. Blain ◽  
Johanna R. Rochester ◽  
Raghavendhran Avanasi ◽  
Susan B. Goldhaber ◽  
...  

Challenges ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margot Parkes ◽  
Sandra Allison ◽  
Henry Harder ◽  
Dawn Hoogeveen ◽  
Diana Kutzner ◽  
...  

Work that addresses the cumulative impacts of resource extraction on environment, community, and health is necessarily large in scope. This paper presents experiences from initiating research at this intersection and explores implications for the ambitious, integrative agenda of planetary health. The purpose is to outline origins, design features, and preliminary insights from our intersectoral and international project, based in Canada and titled the “Environment, Community, Health Observatory” (ECHO) Network. With a clear emphasis on rural, remote, and Indigenous communities, environments, and health, the ECHO Network is designed to answer the question: How can an Environment, Community, Health Observatory Network support the integrative tools and processes required to improve understanding and response to the cumulative health impacts of resource development? The Network is informed by four regional cases across Canada where we employ a framework and an approach grounded in observation, “taking notice for action”, and collective learning. Sharing insights from the foundational phase of this five-year project, we reflect on the hidden and obvious challenges of working across scales, sectors, and sites, and the overlap of generative and uncomfortable entanglements associated with health and resource development. Yet, although intersectoral work addressing the cumulative impacts of resource extraction presents uncertainty and unresolved tensions, ultimately we argue that it is worth staying with the trouble.


Author(s):  
Roger Antabe ◽  
Kilian N. Atuoye ◽  
Vincent Z. Kuuire ◽  
Yujiro Sano ◽  
Godwin Arku ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Salim Vohra ◽  
Marla Orenstein ◽  
Francesca Viliani ◽  
Ben Cave ◽  
Ben Harris-Roxas ◽  
...  

Systematically and holistically considering the community health impacts of new policies and projects is critical. Impact assessment (IA) is a key component of national, international, and many commercial policy and project development and decision-making processes. Health impact assessment (HIA) and the health component of environmental assessment (health in EA) analyses both the potential positive and negative health impacts of policies and projects. HIA and health in EA by engaging stakeholders and incorporating a range of sources and types of evidence can maximize the positive and minimize the negative impacts. This means that precautionary principle is implicitly or explicitly a part of the IA process. There are a range of significant challenges in applying IAs and in applying the precautionary principle, particularly in the IA process. Public health professionals need to engage in the IA process, in HIAs and in Health in EAs, to protect and promote community health and well-being.


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