Bridging conceptual “silos”: bringing together health promotion and sustainability governance for practitioners at the landscape scale

Abernethy, Paivi

doi:10.1080/13549839.2014.968841

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“…Activities to follow health promotion and prevention are confronted with "siloed" problem-solving attempts among organizations and professions. The challenge in environmental health may not be the disagreement about how to address a given situation but what the issues to be solved are [11]. Furthermore, overall knowledge on determinants of health has to be transferred into locally specific contexts.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Considering the multifactorial aspects of environmental health, there is consensus that this subject is not structured within traditional disciplinary or sectoral boundaries. Owing to the strong linkages of environmental health issues to broader sectors in societies such as public health, social and private sectors, housing etc., researchers have endorsed collaboration by involving stakeholders from all relevant disciplines and sectors [11,12]. This understanding has brought attention to transdisciplinary research processes in the field of environmental health [13][14][15].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Interactive Knowledge Co-Production and Integration for Healthy Urban Development

Shrestha

Köckler²,

Flacke

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:The transformation of cities towards healthy urban living environments for all is a challenge that needs to be addressed through collaboration of all relevant sectors in a transdisciplinary research processes. This paper reports on the design and showcase implementation of a methodological approach, named Interactive Spatial Understanding Support System (ISUSS), that is intended to support interactive knowledge co-production and integration among practitioners and researcher in a specific local context. The approach involves the combined use of interactive maps on a MapTable and a rich picture. The goal is to stimulate, articulate and map stakeholders' knowledge on environmental health issues to come to a shared problem understanding. Drawing on the rich seam of data gathered over the reflexive engagement with the participants in Dortmund, Germany, we explored incidences of a transdisciplinary process. Findings suggest that the approach has the potential to encourage communication and social learning geared towards a shared understanding of the holistic problem situation. Whilst locally embedded spatial knowledge was shared using interactive maps on the MapTable, the rich picture elicited issues linked to wider geographical scale as well as non-spatial drivers. The paper concludes discussing research needs to further explore the approach among various other groups, including citizens.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Interactive Knowledge Co-Production and Integration for Healthy Urban Development

Shrestha

Köckler²,

Flacke

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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“…Nowadays we see this primal vision of planning having a strong renaissance. Several studies and publications related to health issues stress the importance of place and space in health related research [4,5] and the need for a better integration of public health and spatial planning [6][7][8].…”

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confidence: 99%

Spatial urban health equity indicators – a framework-based approach supporting spatial decision making

Flacke¹,

Köckler

2015

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Aspects of urban health have nowadays become a central issue in many sustainability concepts and plans. Especially health equity issues play an important role in urban areas, because "where in a city you live and how that city is governed can determine whether or not one benefits from city living". That means differences in health outcome are amongst others determined by contextual factors. Scholars therefore detect a need for new urban health equity indicators that allow to monitor health inequities across place and time, particularly within a city neighbourhood. Likewise, population health is also more and more central in urban planning interventions striving for sustainable and healthy city development. However, in order to affect health issues by means of planning interventions, a good understanding of environmental and societal drivers and determinants of health outcomes, that can be influenced by interventions from planning and public health, is crucial. In the paper we develop an indicator framework to be used for targeting spatial planning interventions aiming for more urban health equity. The framework for Spatial Urban Health Equity Indicators (SUHEI) allows to map the relationships between exposure and health effects determined by various drivers, and therefore reveals explicit entry points for interventions. It combines elements of cause-effect indicator frameworks with elements of health equity models. First examples of the SUHEI framework as elaborated for the case study of the city of Dortmund in Germany. Results provide different entry points for urban planning interventions to contribute to more just and sustainable cities.

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“…These include not only direct pathological factors of chemical, physical or biological agents such as benzene, mercury, radiation etc. Also the physical and social environment which is affected by several spatial processes such as housing, urban development, land use and transportation, industry, shapes environmental health ((DHHS, 2010) in (Abernethy, 2014)). have categorized these characteristics and contexts into three broad categories; the urban physical environment, the social environment, including economic conditions, and the availability of and access to health and social services.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Yet, collaboration on the interface between planning and health is often reported to be challenging. Institutional and legal challenges with respect to narrow mandates and limited resources tend to get in the way (Abernethy, 2014;Baumgart, 2017), and difficulties seem to arise due to 'wicked problem' characteristics of environmental health. The term 'wicked problem' is generally used to characterize problems that are multifactorial, dynamic in nature and resistant to solution (Kreuter et al, 2004).…”

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Interactive map-based support systems

Shrestha¹

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Social learning and knowledge co-production Social learning is described as learning in and with social groups through interaction (Siebenhüner, 2005), which occurs when participants share their experiences, ideas and environment with others during a group activity (Armitage et al., 2008). It is a re-iterative process of assimilation through the interpretation of issues in terms of existing mental models and accommodation through changing of the mental models to make sense of the issues. When participants engage in deliberation within a collaborative dialogue, they learn as individuals and as a group about the problem, their goals, perspectives of other The key process components include: facilitation, diversity of participants and a democratic structure (Daniels & Walker, 2001; Mostert et al., 2007). Skilled facilitation is a prerequisite of any participatory process as a facilitator ensures that all participants feel comfortable to share their ideas, remain focussed to the objective of the task and prevent domination of one participant (Daniels & Walker, 2001; Johnson et al., 2012). Having a diverse group of participants ensures that greater breadth of worldviews, mental models and experiences are included in the process (Jones et al., 2011; Rinner, 2001). A democratic structure Researchers have now started to shift their focus from user-friendliness to the usefulness of such tools on improving the quality of the planning practice. Te Brommelstroet (2017) argues that user-friendly PSS are means rather than a goal and suggests to focus on the actual goal of improving the quality of planning practice. Traditionally, the added value of these tools was seen as improving the outcome of the process. However, in the last decades, the focus of most researchers have shifted towards improving the planning process and therefore,  How can approaches of interactive map-based support systems support social learning and knowledge co-production processes? Research methodology In this study a sociotechnical view has been adopted to explore the usefulness of interactive map-based support systems for engendering social learning and knowledge co-production. A sociotechnical view draws on design research * This chapter is based on the article:

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Bridging conceptual “silos”: bringing together health promotion and sustainability governance for practitioners at the landscape scale

Cited by 10 publications

References 141 publications

Interactive Knowledge Co-Production and Integration for Healthy Urban Development

Interactive Knowledge Co-Production and Integration for Healthy Urban Development

Spatial urban health equity indicators – a framework-based approach supporting spatial decision making

Interactive map-based support systems

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