TY - JOUR
T1 - Environmental health advancing emancipatory policies for the common good
AU - Valentine-Maher, Sarah K.
AU - Butterfield, Patricia G.
AU - Laustsen, Gary
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2018 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Human health is substantially impacted by the state of the environment, and environmental degradation has a disproportionate impact on persons with less immediate access to financial and social power. This article calls for upstream nursing action to address the natural environment in order to turn about health injustices and improve health for all. Such action would move nursing towards a greater actualization of the nursing environmental domain. The health impacts of climate change, air and water quality, and toxic chemical exposure are substantiated and specific policy leadership recommendations are proposed. Recommended actions include work to build environmental health literacy and empowerment, advocacy for regulatory protection and enforcement, and environmental engagement within health care systems.
AB - Human health is substantially impacted by the state of the environment, and environmental degradation has a disproportionate impact on persons with less immediate access to financial and social power. This article calls for upstream nursing action to address the natural environment in order to turn about health injustices and improve health for all. Such action would move nursing towards a greater actualization of the nursing environmental domain. The health impacts of climate change, air and water quality, and toxic chemical exposure are substantiated and specific policy leadership recommendations are proposed. Recommended actions include work to build environmental health literacy and empowerment, advocacy for regulatory protection and enforcement, and environmental engagement within health care systems.
KW - Climate change
KW - Emancipatory nursing
KW - Environmental health
KW - Nursing leadership
KW - Pollution
KW - Population health
KW - Toxic chemical exposure
KW - Upstream
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U2 - 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000194
DO - 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000194
M3 - Article
C2 - 29283890
AN - SCOPUS:85052019623
SN - 0161-9268
VL - 41
SP - 57
EP - 69
JO - Advances in Nursing Science
JF - Advances in Nursing Science
IS - 1
ER -