Defining environmental health literacy

Anna Goodman Hoover

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-94108-0_1

Defining environmental health literacy

Anna Goodman Hoover

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Abstract

Environmental health literacy (EHL) is an emerging area of study that incorporates content and strategies from environmental, health, and social sciences to promote understanding of the ways environmental contaminants affect health. The basic knowledge and skills needed for comprehending environmental health risks and for devising, assessing, implementing and evaluating potential solutions form the foundations of EHL. EHL strives to improve understanding of how individuals and communities make sense of and act on health-related information about environmental hazards. In this chapter, the concept of EHL and its background are introduced, and foundational contributions from health, risk, and participatory communication are discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Environmental Health Literacy
Pages	3-18
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319941080
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94108-0_1
State	Published - Jan 1 2018

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Keywords

Community engagement
Dissemination
Environmental health literacy
Environmental health sciences
Health communication
Health literacy
Participatory research
Research translation
Risk communication
Risk perception

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Medicine
General Social Sciences

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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