Approaches for Enhancing Environmental Health Literacy through Healthcare Educational Programs
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.56294/hl2023205Keywords:
Environmental Health Literacy, Healthcare Education, Public Health, Interdisciplinary Approaches, Digital Tools, Sustainable PracticesAbstract
People and groups need to know about environmental health literacy (EHL) in order to make smart choices about their health that are affected by external factors. As environmental health problems like climate change and pollution get worse, healthcare education programs need to make improving EHL a top priority. People can get the information and skills they need from these classes to understand and deal with environmental health risks. With an eye towards integrating environmental health concepts to medical programs, community health services, and public health campaigns, this article examines many approaches to enhance EHL via healthcare education. Including approaches from many disciplines, including environmental science, public health, and policy education, in healthcare training programs may assist create more broadly covering health teaching initiatives. Sharing environmental health data should also include public health specialists, physicians, and nurses among other healthcare professionals. Using data supported by facts, they may educate their patients about natural hazards and how to be safe. Healthcare environments which include hospitals and clinics are exquisite venues for public health education as they build trusted relationships with their patrons. Running with environmental companies, healthcare structures may additionally set up network-based tasks that boom information of environmental fitness hazards and support ecologically accountable residing. Every other vital method is the usage of digital technologies to offer instructional resources such mobile applications and e-mastering sites. those gear can assist more humans get understanding and make mastering more customized and real-time. The paper also talks about problems that come up whilst trying to placed EHL plans into action, together with a loss of sources, society's resistance to alternate, and the way difficult it's miles to address environmental troubles in healthcare situations. To resolve those issues, all and sundry concerned such as teachers, fitness care employees, lawmakers, and neighbourhood agencies desires to paintings collectively. We will enhance EHL through the use of these methods in healthcare coaching and practice. This can cause higher health consequences, higher environmental care, and a extra stable destiny for communities around the world.
References
1. Hasnain-Wynia, R.; Wolf, M.S. Promoting health care equity: Is health literacy a missing link? Health Serv. Res. 2010, 45, 897.
2. Pleasant, A.; Kuruvilla, S. A tale of two health literacies: Public health and clinical approaches to health literacy. Health Promot. Int. 2008, 23, 152–159.
3. Smith, J.A.; Ireland, S. Towards equity and health literacy. Health Promot. J. Aust. 2020, 31, 3–4.
4. White, B.M.; Hall, E.S.; Johnson, C. Environmental health literacy in support of social action: An environmental justice perspective. J. Environ. Health 2014, 77, 24–29.
5. Gray, K.M. From content knowledge to community change: A review of representations of environmental health literacy. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2018, 15, 466.
6. Eilks, I.; Nielsen, J.A.; Hofstein, A. Learning about the role and function of science in public debate as an essential component of scientific literacy. In Topics and Trends in Current Science Education; Springer: Dordrecht, The Netherland, 2014; pp. 85–100.
7. Finn, S.; O’Fallon, L. The emergence of environmental health literacy—From its roots to its future potential. Environ. Health Perspect. 2017, 125, 495–501.
8. Hursh, D.W.; Martina, C.A.; Davis, H.B.; Trush, M.A. Teaching Environmental Health to Children: An Interdisciplinary Approach; Springer: New York, NY, USA, 2011.
9. Lorini, C.; Caini, S.; Ierardi, F.; Bachini, L.; Gemmi, F.; Bonaccorsi, G. Health Literacy as a Shared Capacity: Does the Health Literacy of a Country Influence the Health Disparities among Immigrants? Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 1149.
10. Ramirez-Andreotta, M.D.; Brody, J.G.; Lothrop, N.; Loh, M.; Beamer, P.I.; Brown, P. Improving environmental health literacy and justice through environmental exposure results communication. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2016, 13, 690.
11. Ramirez-Andreotta, M. Environmental justice. In Environmental and Pollution Science; Academic Press: Cambridge, MA, USA, 2019; pp. 573–583.
12. Y.V. Sunil Subrahmanyam, Y.S. Srivatsav. (2015). A Review On Growing M Commerce In India. International Journal on Research and Development - A Management Review, 4(1), 143 - 147.
13. Jyoti Prakash Rath, Maheshwar Sahu. (2014). Promotion of Health Insurance Services for Financing Health Care Expenditure in Odisha. International Journal on Research and Development - A Management Review, 4(2), 1 - 6.
14. Vardeman, J.E.; Aldoory, L. A qualitative study of how women make meaning of contradictory media messages about the risks of eating fish. Health Commun. 2008, 23, 282–291.
15. Chepesiuk, R. Environmental Literacy: Knowledge for a Healthier Public. Environ. Health Perspect. 2007, 115, A494.
16. Gray, K.M.; Lindsey, M. Measuring environmental health literacy. In Environmental Health Literacy; Springer: Cham, Switzerland, 2019; pp. 19–43.
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2023 Renuka Jyothi.S, Vimal Bibhu, Dheeraj Ghanshyamdas Agrawal, A.R. Shinde, Kabita Chanania (Author)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
The article is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Unless otherwise stated, associated published material is distributed under the same licence.
