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 |
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| Title of host publication | Environmental Health Literacy |
| Pages | 3-18 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783319941080 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019.
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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
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