Facilitating the Relationship Between Researchers and Policy-Makers: Experiences from Three Ecohealth Projects in West and Central Africa

Koné, Brama; Feagan, Mathieu; Houenou, Y.; Brou, Nicolas; Houenou, P.; Fayomi, Benjamin; Ngnikam, Emmanuel; Cissé, Guéladio; Spiegel, Jerry; Kouassi, Édouard

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“…In this perspective, the city could represent a factor of health degradation instead of being an area promoting well-being of inhabitants. Bridging the gap between research, innovation and practice need to drive best science to produce relevant knowledge by decrypting the complexity of drinking water, sanitation, hygiene and health relationship with careful attention to spatial inequalities and vulnerable zones [29]. Knowledge production addressing the issue of drinking water and sanitation access will facilitate the effective achievements of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) within the 2030 world agenda by highlighting clearly targeting priority areas.…”

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Water, Sanitation and Diarrhoeal Diseases in Nouakchott (Mauritania): Analysing the Determinant of Urban Health Inequalities

Sy¹,

Traoré²,

Diène³

et al. 2017

J Infect Dis Preve Med

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The lowest access to water and sanitation services in the city of Nouakchott leads to several practices and behaviours that create a social-ecological system which increasing risk of waterborne diseases transmission like diarrhoea. Using environmental, socioeconomic and epidemiologic indicators from national statistic services, this study aims to assess the impact of Nouakchott's social-ecological system on diarrhoeal diseases with particular emphasize on vulnerability to environmental health risks according to water and sanitation status. The results showed that respectively 25.6% and 69.8% of households had access to improved water sources and latrines with a large variability according to municipalities. The diarrhoeal morbidity (12.8%) was higher in dense urban areas where the lack of water supply and sanitation facilities affected mainly poor households (20.8% of the population). However, diarrhoeal risk is spatially variable in accordance to environmental sanitation disparities with a rate rising from 9.1% in municipalities with high level of improved water and latrines to 19.1% in communities with a lower level of ecosystem services. The correlation analysis between socioeconomic , environmental and epidemiological variables reveals significant associations. Thus, the dynamic of social-ecological system demonstrated that environmental factors linked to unimproved drinking water sources and sanitation services were the main driver of diarrhoeal diseases transmission in some municipalities. The reality of the linkage between health risks due to diarrhoea and urban environmental conditions addresses the issues of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Health and Wellbeing and Water and Sanitation services in Mauritania context.

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Water, Sanitation and Diarrhoeal Diseases in Nouakchott (Mauritania): Analysing the Determinant of Urban Health Inequalities

Sy¹,

Traoré²,

Diène³

et al. 2017

J Infect Dis Preve Med

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“…After taking the training course in Montreal in 2010, I attended the London 2010 Ecohealth conference, where I met more ecohealth students, many of whom were involved in the International Association for Ecology and Health (IAEH) Student Section. Following the conference, I attended a debrief and planning meeting, which led to my involvement with an international group of ecohealth practitioners writing about ecohealth in relation to policy questions (see Koné et al 2011 andFeagan et al 2014). The following year I organized a meeting for ecohealth "alumni" (previous participants in ecohealth training) to pool ideas for improving the training course, and we participated in helping deliver parts of the ecohealth training course offered at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George in June 2011.…”

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Ecological consciousness and the limits of the Academy: a case study approach to ecohealth training and research

Feagan¹

2021

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This dissertation explores the concept of ecological consciousness through a case study approach examining recent attempts to use graduate training and research to better address issues of ecological sustainability and human health. Since the 1970s, there has been a growing number of graduate training programs designed to equip a new generation of graduates with the kind of awareness necessary to address the global ecological crisis. Despite these efforts, the crisis on the whole continues to worsen. Although scholars have pointed to the challenges that ecological consciousness poses for graduate training and research, few studies have examined these challenges from the point of view of graduate students themselves. To better understand the opportunities and constraints of graduate training and research, this dissertation uses the framework of ecological consciousness to analyze the experiences of an international group of twenty-six graduate students and professionals trained in ecosystem approaches to human health (ecohealth) in Canada, West and Central Africa, and Central America. Drawing on systems thinking, Indigenous knowledges, and historical materialism, I argue that ecological consciousness means using different ways of knowing to challenge the disciplining tendency of academic knowledge production and open space for a wider ecology of knowledge to develop and express itself. Methodologically, this project is informed by institutional ethnography, building on the diverse experiences and insights of interviewees to make sense of the layered contextual frames of the university, the state, and international development research projects. Despite an orientation toward transformative practices, interviewee experiences reveal strong pressures to fit within top-down, disciplinary processes already governing the administration of training and research, thereby limiting the possibilities for ecological consciousness. I conclude by offering certain theoretical possibilities for how ecological consciousness can support collective action upon the disciplinary employment structures, which graduate students and professionals have a key role in transforming.

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“…Ensuring that transdisciplinary findings are translated across disciplinary boundaries has been identified as critical not only by Ostrom but also by the fields of planetary health [ [24] , [25] , [26] , [27] ] and EcoHealth [ [28] , [29] , [30] ]. One Health readily acknowledges the need to better integrate transdisciplinary research [ 4 ], stating: “in order to gain a deeper systemic knowledge of these interactions, we need sustainable collaborations and partnerships between human and veterinary medicine, social sciences and humanities, plant and environmental sciences, ecology, economics and many other relevant disciplines”.…”

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Transdisciplinary approaches to addressing factors that influence antimicrobial use in dairy cattle: A scoping review

Cole,

Mughal,

Eltholth

et al. 2024

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Facilitating the Relationship Between Researchers and Policy-Makers: Experiences from Three Ecohealth Projects in West and Central Africa

Cited by 9 publications

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Water, Sanitation and Diarrhoeal Diseases in Nouakchott (Mauritania): Analysing the Determinant of Urban Health Inequalities

Water, Sanitation and Diarrhoeal Diseases in Nouakchott (Mauritania): Analysing the Determinant of Urban Health Inequalities

Ecological consciousness and the limits of the Academy: a case study approach to ecohealth training and research

Transdisciplinary approaches to addressing factors that influence antimicrobial use in dairy cattle: A scoping review

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