scholarly journals The Need to Measure and Manage the Cumulative Impacts of Resource Development on Public Health: An Australian Perspective

10.5772/54297 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Kinnear ◽  
Zobaidul Kabir ◽  
Julie Mann ◽  
Lisa Bricknell
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Resource Development ◽  
Cumulative Impacts

scholarly journals Public Health Nursing Art to Enhance “Strength of Community” in Japan

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reiko Okamoto ◽  
Masako Kageyama ◽  
Keiko Koide ◽  
Saori Iwamoto ◽  
Kayoko Goda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Resource Development ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Public Health Nursing ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
Collective Effort ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
Shed Light

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to shed light on the public health nursing art (PHNA) that enhances “Strength of Community (SC)” with practical activities of Public Health Nurses (PHNs) in Japan. Methods: This study used a qualitative, descriptive design. According to the recommendation, we selected the best PHN activities as identified SC was enhanced that was implemented by multiple PHNs. Interviewees were PHNs who were recommended as PHNs who can talk about each activity on the representative of PHNs concerned. Data were collected three times each through a semi-structured interview, each lasting for about one hour. PHNA was classified into six frameworks: Searching; Stimulating; Facilitating; Cooperation; Continuing Quality Improvement; and Policy/Resource Development based on previous studies. Results: The results indicate that the PHNA included in the six frameworks may further be classified into 12 categories and 26 sub-categories. We also identified three elements of social justice, the underlying norm for the concept. 12 categories were extracted two for each framework, {Reality Searching}, {Reality Actualization}; {Ownership Fostering}, {Motivation Support}; {Collective Effort Promotion}, {Full Retention Promotion}; {Collaborative Piloting}, {Opportunity/Platform Provision}; {Capacity Building}, {Quality Management}; {Resource Development} and {Planning/Systematization}. Conclusion: This study succeeded in demonstrating that the PHNA to enhance SC was collected, refined, and structured in a multidisciplinary and comprehensive manner, within the context of promoting positive health among the population. In the future, the remaining challenges include the substantiation of the PHNA at the sub-category level and the development and dissemination of programs to master them.

Federal Statutes and Environmental Justice in the Navajo Nation: The Case of Fracking in the Greater Chaco Region

2022 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-123
Author(s):  
Mario Atencio ◽  
Hazel James-Tohe ◽  
Samuel Sage ◽  
David J. Tsosie ◽  
Ally Beasley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cumulative Impacts ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
National Environmental Policy Act ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Chaco Region ◽  
National Historic Preservation Act

Arguing for the importance of robust public participation and meaningful Tribal consultation to address the cumulative impacts of federal projects, we bridge interdisciplinary perspectives across law, public health, and Indigenous studies. We focus on openings in existing federal law to involve Tribes and publics more meaningfully in resource management planning, while recognizing the limits of this involvement when only the federal government dictates the terms of participation and analysis. We first discuss challenges and opportunities for addressing cumulative impacts and environmental justice through 2 US federal statutes: the National Environmental Policy Act and the National Historic Preservation Act. Focusing on a major federal planning process involving fracking in the Greater Chaco region of northwestern New Mexico, we examine how the Department of the Interior attempted Tribal consultation during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also highlight local efforts to monitor Diné health and well-being. For Diné people, human health is inseparable from the health of the land. But in applying the primary legal tools for analyzing the effects of extraction across the Greater Chaco region, federal agencies fragment categories of impact that Diné people view holistically. (Am J Public Health. 2022;112(1):116–123. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306562 )

scholarly journals Tracking the Boom in Queensland’s Gasfields

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Rifkin ◽  
Vikki Uhlmann ◽  
Jo-Anne Everingham ◽  
Kylie May
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Iterative Process ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Resource Development ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Cumulative Impacts ◽  
Action Research Approach ◽  
Natural Gas Development ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Small Set

During rapid resource development in a highly contested arena, effective processes for characterising cumulative, social and economic impacts are needed. In this article, we explain a strategy that uses an iterative process involving stakeholders to identify indicators of impacts of onshore natural gas development. The aim of the strategy is to arrive at a small set of indicators that those in the community, government and industry agree are salient and credible.Four major joint ventures are investing more than A$60 billion to tap Queensland, Australia’s onshore natural gas resources. Thousands of wells are reaching into natural gas in seams of coal that lie below aquifers that residents refer to as essential for their heavily agricultural region. The magnitude of these developments has been depicted as threatening the traditional base of political power that has rested with farmers. Nearby coal mining has given some communities the experience of the boomtown cycle, but it is placing unfamiliar strains on municipal resources in other towns. Gas companies provide funds in attempts to mitigate impacts, satisfying requirements of their elaborate social impact management plans (SIMPs).The research reported in this paper, though only mid-way to completion, suggests that an action-research approach to developing indicators of cumulative impacts on housing, business, employment, liveability and trust in government shows promise for enabling stakeholders to track the multi-faceted effects of a resource boom.  We hope that such work helps stakeholders to mitigate the ups and downs of the cycle of boom, bust and recovery that can be driven by resource development.

Wanda Alexander Builds Bridges to Better Care

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-9
Author(s):  
Laura Rydholm
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Resource Development ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Public Health Department ◽  
Large Metropolitan Area ◽  
Development Area

Wanda Alexander works in the Resource Development Area of Hennepin County’s Human Services and Public Health Department. The resource development area is a new, small, entrepreneurial segment of a very large department in a large metropolitan area. She serves the county as an innovative bridge builder under the direction of Bob Olander, a man who grants her latitude to cultivate relationships, shares her excitement about collaborative prospects, and helps her stay focused on the ultimate agenda of upholding the underserved.

scholarly journals Addressing the Environmental, Community, and Health Impacts of Resource Development: Challenges across Scales, Sectors, and Sites

Challenges ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margot Parkes ◽  
Sandra Allison ◽  
Henry Harder ◽  
Dawn Hoogeveen ◽  
Diana Kutzner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Resource Development ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Collective Learning ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
International Project ◽  
Cumulative Impacts ◽  
Planetary Health ◽  
Network Support

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.

Public Health and Newborn Hearing Screening

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
Terrey Oliver Penn ◽  
Susan E. Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Hearing Screening ◽  
Newborn Hearing Screening ◽  
Newborn Hearing
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