Einleitung: Public Health zwischen Multi-, Inter- und Transdisziplin

Schmidt-Semisch, Henning; Schorb, Friedrich

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-30377-8_1

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“…As described above, human interactions with HEC are complex and their evidence-based analyses are a demanding challenge for public health scientists. And since the public health sciences comprise a multidisciplinary research cluster, the current state of play reflects the on-going development of conceptual and methodological approaches within its sub-disciplines [ 47 ]. For example, three decades ago, when public health was established at universities in Germany, on the one hand the discipline was aligned with international, particularly Anglo-American models, and on the other hand, it was conceptualised in reviving aspects of the tradition of social hygiene [ 47 ].…”

Section: Human Health-related Environmental Interactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…And since the public health sciences comprise a multidisciplinary research cluster, the current state of play reflects the on-going development of conceptual and methodological approaches within its sub-disciplines [ 47 ]. For example, three decades ago, when public health was established at universities in Germany, on the one hand the discipline was aligned with international, particularly Anglo-American models, and on the other hand, it was conceptualised in reviving aspects of the tradition of social hygiene [ 47 ]. Public health was conceived as an ensemble of individual scientific disciplines, ones directed towards a common subject area, that is, the improvement of the health of the population through disease prevention and health promotion [ 28 ].…”

Section: Human Health-related Environmental Interactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Typically, for the natural scientist, interdisciplinarity means renouncing effectiveness and explanatory/empirical precision, as well as the introduction of inhibitions; for the humanities scholar, it means ignoring critical contexts and bigger-picture philosophical concerns [ 53 ]. Even the political epidemiology that is very active and influential in the UK is characterised by a widespread absence of theory [ 47 ]. In this respect, it is perhaps obvious to consider the prospects that an integrative theory of the health sciences and a common set of methods might bring [ 44 ], [ 48 ].…”

Section: Human Health-related Environmental Interactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Health-Oriented Environmental Categories, Individual Health Environments, and the Concept of Environment in Public Health

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The term ‘environment’ is not uniformly defined in the public health sciences, which causes crucial inconsistencies in research, health policy, and practice. As we shall indicate, this is somewhat entangled with diverging pathogenic and salutogenic perspectives (research and policy priorities) concerning environmental health. We emphasise two distinct concepts of environment in use by the World Health Organisation. One significant way these concepts differ concerns whether the social environment is included. Divergence on this matter has profound consequences for the understanding of health and disease, for measures derived from that understanding targeting health promotion and disease prevention, and consequently, for epistemic structures and concept development in scientific practice. We hope to improve the given situation in public health by uncovering these differences and by developing a fruitful way of thinking about environment. Firstly, we side with the salutogenic conception of environment as a health resource (as well as a source of health risks). Secondly, we subdivide the concept of environment into four health-oriented environmental categories (viz., natural, built-material, socio-cultural, and psychosocial) and we link these with other theoretical notions proposed in the health sciences literature. Thirdly, we propose that in public health ‘environment’ should be understood as consisting of all extrinsic factors that influence or are influenced by the health, well-being, and development of an individual. Consequently, none of the four categories should be excluded from the concept of environment. We point out the practical relevance and fruitfulness of the conception of environment as a health source and frame this in causal terms, representing individual health environments as causal networks. Throughout, we side with the view that for the design of human health-promoting settings, increased attention and consideration of environmental resources of salutogenic potential is particularly pressing.

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Section: Human Health-related Environmental Interactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%