Perry Simona L
Community Awareness and Solutions for Empowerment, Montgomery Village, MD 20886, USA.
New Solut. 2013;23(1):33-53. doi: 10.2190/NS.23.1.d.
The ethnographer's toolbox has within it a variety of methods for describing and analyzing the everyday lives of human beings that can be useful to public health practitioners and policymakers. These methods can be employed to uncover information on some of the harder-to-monitor psychological, sociocultural, and environmental factors that may lead to chronic stress in individuals and communities. In addition, because most ethnographic research studies involve deep and long-term engagement with local communities, the information collected by ethnographic researchers can be useful in tracking long- and short-term changes in overall well-being and health. Set within an environmental justice framework, this article uses examples from ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in the Marcellus Shale gas fields of Pennsylvania to describe and justify using an ethnographic approach to monitor the psychological and sociocultural determinants of community health as they relate to unconventional oil and gas development projects in the United States.
人种志学者的工具箱中有各种用于描述和分析人类日常生活的方法，这些方法对公共卫生从业者和政策制定者可能有用。这些方法可用于揭示一些较难监测的心理、社会文化和环境因素的信息，这些因素可能导致个人和社区的慢性压力。此外，由于大多数人种志研究涉及与当地社区的深入和长期接触，人种志研究者收集的信息可用于跟踪总体幸福感和健康状况的长期和短期变化。本文以宾夕法尼亚州马塞勒斯页岩气田正在进行的人种志实地调查为例，在环境正义框架内，描述并论证使用人种志方法来监测与美国非常规油气开发项目相关的社区健康的心理和社会文化决定因素。
