Health
The idea of health connects to that of thriving and wellbeing.
Subject of health? Organism (fuzzy boundary)? Ecosystem? Community? The Earth?
Terms:
- evolutionary medicine
- one health
- one welfare
- ageing, senescence
Definitions
Andrews, Gavin J. ‘Co-Creating Health’s Lively, Moving Frontiers: Brief Observations on the Facets and Possibilities of Non-Representational Theory’. Health & Place 30 (2014): 165–70. https://doi.org/10/gk97q9.
Cardinale, Bradley J., J. Emmett Duffy, Andrew Gonzalez, David U. Hooper, Charles Perrings, Patrick Venail, Anita Narwani, et al. ‘Biodiversity Loss and Its Impact on Humanity’. Nature 486, no. 7401 (2012): 59–67. https://doi.org/10/nnp.
Microbiome rewilding
Mills, Jacob G., Philip Weinstein, Nicholas J. C. Gellie, Laura S. Weyrich, Andrew J. Lowe, and Martin F. Breed. ‘Urban Habitat Restoration Provides a Human Health Benefit Through Microbiome Rewilding: The Microbiome Rewilding Hypothesis’. Restoration Ecology 25, no. 6 (2017): 866–72. https://doi.org/10/gckbzc.
Psychological
Rose, Nikolas S., and Des Fitzgerald. The Urban Brain: Mental Health in the Vital City. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.
Rose, Nikolas S. Our Psychiatric Future: The Politics of Mental Health. Cambridge: Polity, 2019.
One Health
Atlas, Ronald M., and Stanley R. Maloy, eds. One Health: People, Animals, and the Environment. Washington: ASM Press, 2014.
Herrmann, John A., and Yvette Johnson-Walker, eds. Beyond One Health: From Recognition to Results. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018.
Zinsstag, J., E. Schelling, D. Waltner-Toews, M. Whittaker, and M. Tanner, eds. One Health: The Theory and Practice of Integrated Health Approaches. Wallingford: CABI, 2015.
Nicolas Lainé and Serge Morand, ‘Linking Humans, Their Animals, and the Environment Again: A Decolonized and More-Than-Human Approach to “One Health”’, Parasite 27 (2020): 55, https://doi.org/10/gp6rhz.
One Welfare
Pinillos, Rebeca Garcia. One Welfare: A Framework to Improve Animal Welfare and Human Well-Being. Wallingford: CABI, 2018.
Ecosystem Health
Lu, Yonglong, Ruoshi Wang, Yueqing Zhang, Hongqiao Su, Pei Wang, Alan Jenkins, Rober C. Ferrier, Mark Bailey, and Geoff Squire. ‘Ecosystem Health Towards Sustainability’. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 1, no. 1 (2015): 1–15. https://doi.org/10/grpgj7.
Lancaster, Jill. ‘The Ridiculous Notion of Assessing Ecological Health and Identifying the Useful Concepts Underneath’. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal 6, no. 2 (2000): 213–22. https://doi.org/10/fkfk2k.
Politics and Control
Cf.
Ruckenstein, Minna, and Natasha Dow Schüll. ‘The Datafication of Health’.
Planetary Health
The system is as healthy as its least healthy part.
See: The Lancet Planetary Health
Alahuhta, Janne, Helena Tukiainen, Maija Toivanen, Terhi Ala-Hulkko, Vahid Farrahi, Jan Hjort, Tiina M. Ikäheimo, et al. ‘Acknowledging Geodiversity in Safeguarding Biodiversity and Human Health’. The Lancet Planetary Health 6, no. 12 (2022): e987–92. https://doi.org/10/grxj3p.
Prescott, Susan L., and Alan C. Logan. ‘Down to Earth: Planetary Health and Biophilosophy in the Symbiocene Epoch’. Challenges 8, no. 2 (2017): 19. https://doi.org/10/ghk27z.
Nassauer, Joan Iverson. ‘Care and Stewardship: From Home to Planet’. Landscape and Urban Planning, Landscape and Urban Planning at 100, 100, no. 4 (2011): 321–23. https://doi.org/10/bp4v4h.
Gonzalez-Holguera, Julia, Marie Gaille, Maria del Rio Carral, Julia Steinberger, Joachim Marti, Nolwenn Bühler, Alain Kaufmann, et al. ‘Translating Planetary Health Principles Into Sustainable Primary Care Services’. Frontiers in Public Health 10 (2022).
Myers, Samuel, and Howard Frumkin. Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves. Washington: Island Press, 2020.
Arora, Manish, Paul Curtin, Austen Curtin, Christine Austin, and Alessandro Giuliani. Environmental Biodynamics: A New Science of How the Environment Interacts with Human Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
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