Hoover Elizabeth, Renauld Mia, Edelstein Michael R, Brown Phil
American Studies and Ethnic Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Environ Health Perspect. 2015 Nov;123(11):1100-6. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1409283. Epub 2015 May 12.
Social science research has been central in documenting and analyzing community discovery of environmental exposure and consequential processes. Collaboration with environmental health science through team projects has advanced and improved our understanding of environmental health and justice.
We sought to identify diverse methods and topics in which social scientists have expanded environmental health understandings at multiple levels, to examine how transdisciplinary environmental health research fosters better science, and to learn how these partnerships have been able to flourish because of the support from National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).
We analyzed various types of social science research to investigate how social science contributes to environmental health. We also examined NIEHS programs that foster social science. In addition, we developed a case study of a community-based participation research project in Akwesasne in order to demonstrate how social science has enhanced environmental health science.
Social science has informed environmental health science through ethnographic studies of contaminated communities, analysis of spatial distribution of environmental injustice, psychological experience of contamination, social construction of risk and risk perception, and social impacts of disasters. Social science-environmental health team science has altered the way scientists traditionally explore exposure by pressing for cumulative exposure approaches and providing research data for policy applications.
A transdisciplinary approach for environmental health practice has emerged that engages the social sciences to paint a full picture of the consequences of contamination so that policy makers, regulators, public health officials, and other stakeholders can better ameliorate impacts and prevent future exposure.
Hoover E, Renauld M, Edelstein MR, Brown P. 2015. Social science collaboration with environmental health. Environ Health Perspect 123:1100-1106; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1409283.
社会科学研究在记录和分析社区对环境暴露及相关过程的发现方面一直处于核心地位。通过团队项目与环境健康科学开展合作，深化并提升了我们对环境健康与正义的理解。
我们试图确定社会科学家在多个层面拓展环境健康理解的不同方法和主题，审视跨学科环境健康研究如何推动更优质的科学发展，并了解由于美国国立环境卫生科学研究所（NIEHS）的支持，这些合作关系得以蓬勃发展的方式。
我们分析了各类社会科学研究，以探究社会科学如何为环境健康做出贡献。我们还考察了促进社会科学发展的NIEHS项目。此外，我们开展了一项关于阿克瓦斯奈社区参与研究项目的案例研究，以展示社会科学如何增强环境健康科学。
社会科学通过对受污染社区的人种志研究、环境不公正空间分布分析、污染的心理体验、风险及风险认知的社会建构以及灾害的社会影响，为环境健康科学提供了信息。社会科学与环境健康团队科学改变了科学家传统上探索暴露的方式，推动采用累积暴露方法，并为政策应用提供研究数据。
已出现一种环境健康实践的跨学科方法，该方法让社会科学参与进来，全面描绘污染的后果图景，以便政策制定者、监管者、公共卫生官员及其他利益相关者能够更好地减轻影响并预防未来的暴露。
胡佛E、雷诺德M、埃德尔斯坦MR、布朗P。2015年。社会科学与环境健康的合作。《环境健康展望》123:1100 - 1106；http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1409283 。
