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Combining Social Science and Environmental Health Research for Community Engagement.

Alissa CordnerGrace PoudrierJesse DiValliPhil Brown
Published in: International journal of environmental research and public health (2019)
Social science-environmental health (SS-EH) research takes many structural forms and contributes to a wide variety of topical areas. In this article we discuss the general nature of SS-EH contributions and offer a new typology of SS-EH practice that situates this type of research in a larger transdisciplinary sensibility: (1) environmental health science influenced by social science; (2) social science studies of environmental health; and (3) social science-environmental health collaborations. We describe examples from our own and others' work and we discuss the central role that research centers, training programs, and conferences play in furthering SS-EH research. We argue that the third form of SS-EH research, SS-EH collaborations, offers the greatest potential for improving public and environmental health, though such collaborations come with important challenges and demand constant reflexivity on the part of researchers.
Keyphrases
  • public health
  • healthcare
  • mental health
  • human health
  • risk assessment
  • health information
  • life cycle
  • health promotion
  • emergency department
  • climate change