Integrating Medical and Environmental Sociology with Environmental Health: Crossing Boundaries and Building Connections through Advocacy

Autor/in	Brown, Phil
Titel	Integrating Medical and Environmental Sociology with Environmental Health: Crossing Boundaries and Building Connections through Advocacy
Quelle	In: Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 54 (2013) 2, S.144-163 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-1465
DOI	10.1177/0022146513484473
Schlagwörter	Health Needs; Public Health; Interdisciplinary Approach; Sociology; Epidemiology; Nursing Education; Health Sciences; Advocacy; Medicine; Environmental Education; Diseases; Social Change; Activism; Prevention; Environmental Influences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gesundheitswesen; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Soziologie; Epidemiologie; Pflegepädagogik; Sozialanwaltschaft; Medizin; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Disease; Krankheit; Sozialer Wandel; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss
Abstract	This article reviews the personal and professional processes of developing an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the complex issues of environmental health in their community, political-economic, social science, and scientific contexts. This interdisciplinary approach includes a synthesis of research, policy work, and advocacy. To examine multiple forms of interdisciplinarity, I examine pathways of integrating medical and environmental sociology via three challenges to the boundaries of traditional research: (1) crossing the boundaries of medical and environmental sociology, (2) linking social science and environmental health science, and (3) crossing the boundary of research and advocacy. These boundary crossings are discussed in light of conceptual and theoretical developments of popular epidemiology, contested illnesses, and health social movements. This interdisciplinary work offers a more comprehensive sociological lens for understanding complex problems and a practical ability to join with scientists, activists, and officials to meet public health needs for amelioration and prevention of environmental health threats. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10