HESO 449: Ecohealth SDS

Hey everyone,

I shared this link with one group last class, but others may find this interesting, especially if you are intereted in developing a community-driven intervention: http://www.masslbp.com/profile.php

“MASS LBP is a new kind of advisory firm which works with visionary governments and corporations to make better decisions while deepening and improving their efforts to engage and consult with citizens. Fundamentally we believe in people. Given the opportunity to participate in a thorough, fair and inclusive process, citizens are ready to provide constructive advice, offering officials the intelligence, perspective and sensitivity that difficult public issues require.”

Regarding our intervention design, one of the question we have to address is “Why your approach is an EcoHealth one (vs. just another global health approach)”?
Is this basically asking what sperates EcoHealth approch from others? i.e. the three pillaris as we disscused in class and is summerized in the diagram above. I am not very clear about the (“vs. just another global health approch?”) part of this question.
I though I post it here so may be anyone from class can kindly help clarify.
Thank you very much in advance! 🙂

That’s exactly what the question’s asking Nisa 🙂
It’s basically asking you to outline how framing your intervention through the ecohealth approach could be a potential benefit.
Also, just a note: keep in mind that “sustainability” is also considered another pillar of ecohealth (so technically, there are 4).

Thanks for the question Nisa. I thought about the same thing. I’d like to think the global approach as something that encompasses a bigger picture, like a large scaled vision. As an ecohealth approach, we try to break down the problem to sub fields like economics, sociology, ecology etc. until it’s irreducible. Then we look at what we can do in each sub field and how we use their integration to tackle the problem.

Thank you both for the helpful insights! 🙂