Innovative Applications of an Ecosystem Approach to Health
Dominique F. Charron, Editor
International Development Research Centre, 2012
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
“….The ultimate objective of ecohealth research and practice is to
develop environmentally sustainable, community-based interventions
to improve the health of affected communities. Much success has
resulted from the incorporation of community transformation and
empowerment as key project objectives. In some cases, the
participation of government health services has guided the design of
interventions suitable for adoption by health programs. However,
besides the relatively successful examples of six projects (in Ecuador,
Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Nepal, and Tanzania) presented in this book,
project outcomes often have limited direct influence on transforming
health programs and even more limited influence on health policy.
In this book, the inclusion of projects with variable influence on health
policy offers the opportunity to examine both the suitability and scope
of the proposed interventions and the nature of the external factors that
influence their adoption by health services….”
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