Human health exists at the interface of environment and society.
Decades of work by researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers
has shown that health is shaped by a myriad of factors, including
the biophysical environment, climate, political economy, gender,
social networks, culture, and infrastructure. Yet while there is
emerging interest within the natural and social sciences on the
social and ecological dimensions of human disease and health, there
have been few studies that address them in an integrated manner.
Ecologies and Politics of Health brings together contributions from
the natural and social sciences to examine three key themes: the
ecological dimensions of health and vulnerability, the
socio-political dimensions of human health, and the intersections
between the ecological and social dimensions of health. The
thirteen case study chapters collectively present results from
Africa, Asia, Latin America, the United States, Australia, and
global cities. Section one interrogates the utility of several
theoretical frameworks and conventions for understanding health
within complex social and ecological systems. Section two
concentrates upon empirically grounded and quantitative work that
collectively redefines health in a more expansive way that extends
beyond the absence of disease. Section three examines the role of
the state and management interventions through historically rich
approaches centering on both disease- and non-disease-related
examples from Latin America, Eastern Africa, and the United States.
Finally, Section four highlights how health vulnerabilities are
differentially constructed with concomitant impacts for disease
management and policy interventions. This timely volume advances
knowledge on health-environment interactions, disease
vulnerabilities, global development, and political ecology. It
offers theoretical and methodological contributions which will be a
valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in geography,
public health, biology, anthropology, sociology, and ecology.
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