Combining Social Science and Environmental Health Research for Community Engagement

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Jesse DiValli¹  Grace Poudrier¹  Phil Brown¹  Alissa Cordner² 

[1] Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA;Sociology Department, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 99362, USA;

关键词: social science-environmental health collaboration;    community-based participatory research;    community-engaged research;    civic science;    environmental justice;    ethnography;    chemical legacy;    Superfund;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijerph16183483

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

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