Ecological Public Health

Shaw, J. 2018. 'Early Indian Buddhism, Water and Rice: Collective Responses to Socio-ecological Stress - Relevance for Global Environmental Discourse and Anthropocene Studies', in Altaweel, M., Zhuang, Y. (eds.), Water Technologies and Societies in the Past and Present. London: UCL Press, pp 223-255

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This chapter focuses on early forms of community engagement with
water and environmental control in ancient India, as responses to
environmental and climate-change challenges to human health and
well-being, and the relevance of this material to global debates within
contemporary environmental humanities-based studies on the one
hand, and environmental, public and ‘planetary’ health discourse on
the other. A key argument is that despite environmental archaeology’s
recent engagement with Anthropocene studies, its traditional emphasis
on the practical and technological responses to environmental stress and
climate change tends to overlook the religio-philosophical and epistemological
roots of historically specific human–environmental relationships.
Conversely, within the environmental humanities, ancient traditions of
religious-philosophical knowledge are often cited as an inspiration for
global environmental ethics. Yet the question of whether such traditions
in early Indian contexts support attitudes towards nature and its
resources in ‘eco-friendly’ ways has seen little input from archaeology.
Drawing on landscape data from central India, and with a particular
emphasis on the Buddhist tradition, this chapter assesses the degree to
which archaeological evidence can aid scholarly understanding of early
Indian attitudes towards animals, plants, food production, and land and
water use. It examines early Buddhism’s relationship with land and water
management, and new forms of food production as responses to social
and environmental stress on the one hand, and as agents of new cultural
attitudes towards food and the body on the other. Drawing on ‘devolved’
examples of religion-based institutional management of land and water
resources, it argues that water control was central to the gradual and
long-term process of monumentalisation of early Buddhist monasticism
and its entanglement with its broader socio-ecological environment.

Julia Shaw & Naomi Sykes, 2018. 'New directions in the archaeology of
medicine: deep-time approaches to human-animal-environmental care', World Archaeology, 50:3, 365-383.  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00438243.2018.1574393  (OPEN ACCESS, no login required)


This is the Introduction to our edited volume:
N. Sykes and J. Shaw, (eds.), 2018. Archaeology of Medicine and Healthcare, Special volume of World Archaeology 50(3): 365 383,  https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rwar20/50/3?nav=tocList

Nurses have a history of engaging in health promotion and public health and both roles are reflected in the Nursing and Midwifery standards for education. However, future trends such as population growth, new technologies and climate change, suggest that their current understanding of these trends need to develop to adapt to a very different future. This paper argues that nurses need to quickly move beyond adopting individualistic and behaviour changing perspectives (Kemppainen, Tossavainen and Turunen (2012), to that of also adopting an ethico-socio-political role (Falk-Raphael 2006) in health promotion based on a wider understanding of what health promotion may mean. This paper reflects on climate change, an outline of the concept of ecological public health, and Kemppainen, Tossavainen and Turunen’s (2012) integrative review on the nurses’ role in health promotion to support this argument.

The specialty of family medicine is centered on lasting, caring relationships with patients and their families. Family physiciansintegrate the biological, clinical and behavioral sciences to provide continuing and comprehensive health care. The scope of family medicine encompasses all ages, sexes, each organ system and every disease entity. Read more about the history, scope and definition of family medicine by reviewing the following resources.



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Family physicians integrate the biological, clinical and behavioral sciences to provide continuing and comprehensive health care. Family medicine encompasses all ages, sexes, each organ system and every disease entity. Family physicians also pay special attention to their patients' lives within the context of family and the community.

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Climate change has been identified as a serious threat to human health, and is linked to issues around the sustainability of current practices and lifestyles. The health promotion role of nurses needs to develop to address current and emerging threats to health from climate change and to address Ecological Public Health. This paper briefly outlines climate change, the concept of Ecological Public Health and discusses a 2012 review of the health promotion role of the nurse to support that argument.

In the United States, modern children are suffering from unprecedented amounts of stress, depression, behavioral and learning challenges, and increases in types and frequencies of physical illnesses (CDC, 2012). Simultaneously educators struggle to meet standardized testing and core academic standards, which are being legislated and mandated. Funding for communities and schools seems more like a mirage effect and future funding for educators is being more closely tied to the controversial test score performances of students (National Educational Association, 2010). Factories and business are folding up and moving out of communities and even out of the United States altogether. Metropolitan areas once prospering now have an increased poverty population that is considered “statistically significant” (Brookings Institution, 2013). While the factors contributing to these issues of health, academic achievement, and local economics are many, one common component is humans’ increasing disc...