Allocation of Environmental Interventions

1996 ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
Christiane Maillefer
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Interventions

Environmental Health Research and Ethics

2019 ◽  
pp. 753-764
Author(s):  
David B. Resnik
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Environmental Interventions ◽  
Environmental Health Research ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Research Regulations ◽  
Kennedy Krieger Institute ◽  
Privacy And Confidentiality

This chapter discusses some of the key ethical issues that arise in environmental health research involving human subjects, including returning individualized research results, protecting privacy and confidentiality, research on environmental interventions, intentional exposure studies, research regulations, autonomy, beneficence, informed consent, payments to subjects, and protecting vulnerable human subjects. The chapter will discuss issues that are common to all research designs, as well as those unique to certain types of designs, such as intentional exposure studies. It will also address ethical issues that arose in two important cases, the Kennedy Krieger Institute lead abatement study, and the Children’s Environmental Exposure Research Study.

In the Moment: Fostering Mindfulness and Reducing Stressors in the Healthcare Workplace

2021 ◽  
pp. 193758672098824
Author(s):  
Shabboo Valipoor ◽  
Sheila J. Bosch
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Job Dissatisfaction ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Environmental Interventions ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
The Moment

While healthcare design research has primarily focused on patient outcomes, there is a growing recognition that environmental interventions could do more by promoting the overall quality of care, and this requires expanding the focus to the health and well-being of those who deliver care to patients. Healthcare professionals are under high levels of stress, leading to burnout, job dissatisfaction, and poor patient care. Among other tools, mindfulness is recommended as a way of decreasing stress and helping workers function at higher levels. This article aims to identify potential environmental strategies for reducing work-related stressors and facilitating mindfulness in healthcare settings. By examining existing evidence on workplace mindfulness and stress-reducing design strategies, we highlight the power of the physical environment in not only alleviating stressful conditions but intentionally encouraging a mindful perspective. Strategies like minimizing distractions or avoiding overstimulation in the healthcare environment can be more effective if implemented along with the provision of designated spaces for mindfulness-based programs. Future research may explore optimal methods and hospital workers’ preferences for environments that support mindfulness and stress management. The long-term goal of all these efforts is to enhance healthcare professionals’ well-being, reignite their professional enthusiasm, and help them be resilient in times of stress.

scholarly journals Multiple social network influences can generate unexpected environmental outcomes

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Yletyinen ◽  
G. L. W. Perry ◽  
P. Stahlmann-Brown ◽  
R. Pech ◽  
J. M. Tylianakis
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Social Influences ◽  
Private Land ◽  
Environmental Interventions ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Private Land Conservation ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Complex Adaptive

AbstractUnderstanding the function of social networks can make a critical contribution to achieving desirable environmental outcomes. Social-ecological systems are complex, adaptive systems in which environmental decision makers adapt to a changing social and ecological context. However, it remains unclear how multiple social influences interact with environmental feedbacks to generate environmental outcomes. Based on national-scale survey data and a social-ecological agent-based model in the context of voluntary private land conservation, our results suggest that social influences can operate synergistically or antagonistically, thereby enabling behaviors to spread by two or more mechanisms that amplify each other’s effects. Furthermore, information through social networks may indirectly affect and respond to isolated individuals through environmental change. The interplay of social influences can, therefore, explain the success or failure of conservation outcomes emerging from collective behavior. To understand the capacity of social influence to generate environmental outcomes, social networks must not be seen as ‘closed systems’; rather, the outcomes of environmental interventions depend on feedbacks between the environment and different components of the social system.

scholarly journals Do Environmental Interventions Impact Elementary School Students' Lunchtime Milk Selection?

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 360-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiko Goto ◽  
Alexandra Waite ◽  
Cindy Wolff ◽  
Kenny Chan ◽  
Maria Giovanni
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Environmental Interventions

Home Environmental Interventions for the Prevention or Control of Allergic and Respiratory Diseases: What Really Works

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Le Cann ◽  
Hélène Paulus ◽  
Philippe Glorennec ◽  
Barbara Le Bot ◽  
Sophie Frain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
Environmental Interventions

scholarly journals Exploring Food Literacy Domains in an Adult Samoan Population

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 3587
Author(s):  
Grace Kammholz ◽  
Dana Craven ◽  
Ramona Boodoosingh ◽  
Safua Akeli Amaama ◽  
Jyothi Abraham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Food Storage ◽  
Policy Action ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Environmental Interventions ◽  
Food Literacy

Samoan food systems have undergone a dramatic nutrition transition, with dietary patterns changing concurrently with increased rates of obesity and non-communicable disease. Whilst policy action and environmental interventions play an important role in improving access to and consumption of healthy food, the success of these relies on a greater understanding of individuals’ food knowledge and behaviours. This study aimed to explore these behaviours using the construct of food literacy in an adult Samoan population. A cross-sectional interviewer-administered questionnaire of a convenience sample of 150 adult Samoans (≥20 years) assessed the four domains of food literacy: plan/manage, select, prepare, and eat. Participants generally plan to include healthy food (87%) and budget money for food (87%). The majority know where to find nutrition labels (68%), of which 43% always use them to inform their food choices. Participants were mostly confident with cooking skills, although food storage practices require further investigation. Over 90% agreed or strongly agreed that food impacts health, although understanding of the Pacific Guidelines for Healthy Living was lacking. Understanding the ability of Samoans to plan/manage, select, prepare, and eat food is an important consideration for future interventions aiming to assist this population in navigating the modern-day food system.

scholarly journals Actively Involving Middle School Students in the Implementation of a Pilot of a Behavioral Economics–Based Lunchroom Intervention in Rural Schools

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 675-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natoshia M. Askelson ◽  
Patrick Brady ◽  
Grace Ryan ◽  
Cristian Meier ◽  
Cristina Ortiz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Food Service ◽  
Environmental Interventions ◽  
School Based ◽  
Service Staff ◽  
Policy Systems ◽  
Healthy Eating Behaviors

School-based interventions can play an important role in improving childhood and adolescent nutrition and preventing obesity. Schools offer a unique opportunity to implement policy, systems, and environmental interventions targeting healthy eating behaviors. An intervention was piloted in six middle schools featuring behavioral economics–based changes to the lunchroom, communication training, and communicate cues for food service staff. The pilot study employed a multicomponent evaluation with students and food service directors and staff including a lunchroom assessment, online surveys, production records, and interviews. Five schools increased their scores on the lunchroom assessment tool, and four schools increased the number of servings produced of healthy food items. Interviews with food service directors indicated the interventions was feasible and well received. School-based policy, systems, and environmental interventions targeting healthy eating behaviors may play a role in preventing obesity in children and adolescents.

Environmental Interventions and Air Pollution (Re)distribution in Delhi, India

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naresh Kumar ◽  
Marc Linderman ◽  
Allen Chu ◽  
Sachidnand Tripathi ◽  
Andrew D. Foster ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Environmental Interventions
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