Integrating human health and environmental health into the DPSIR framework: A tool to identify research opportunities for sustainable and healthy communities

EcoHealth

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 411-426

  Yee, Susan H ^a   Bradley, Patricia ^a   Fisher, William S ^a   Perreault, Sally D ^a   Quackenboss, James ^a   Johnson, Eric D ^a   Bousquin, Justin ^a   Murphy, Patricia A ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b Urban Watershed Management Research Edison   (United States)

Author keywords

asthma disparities; causal framework; DPSIR; environmental health; public health; sustainability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ASTHMA; BEHAVIOR; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CULTURE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY;

EID: 84877835926     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-012-0805-3     Document Type: Article

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