Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, 15 Sperling Drive, Barrie, Ontario, L4M 6K9, Canada.
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Health Sciences Building, 155 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 3M7, Canada.
Can J Public Health. 2020 Oct;111(5):701-704. doi: 10.17269/s41997-020-00341-2. Epub 2020 Aug 6.
In evolutionary terms, the transformations which humans have engendered in social, ecological and built environments are increasingly out of step with their biological makeup. We briefly review the evidence on health-relevant practices and status of our Paleolithic ancestors and contrast these with current food, transportation, work and governance systems with their associated impacts on human health. As public health and planning practitioners engaged in the EcoHealth Ontario Collaborative, we argue for recognition of our hunter-gatherer nature to promote joint efforts in building sustainable and equitable community infrastructures, both built and green. Although such efforts are underway at multiple jurisdictional levels across Canada, the pace is frustratingly slow for the burden of endemic chronic diseases and global environmental change which humans face. Reminding reluctant stakeholders of the hunter-gatherers in us all could bring about deeper reflection on the urgent work in redirecting community planning.
从进化的角度来看，人类在社会、生态和建筑环境中所引发的变化越来越不符合他们的生物结构。我们简要回顾了有关我们穴居祖先的健康相关实践和现状的证据，并将这些与当前的食物、交通、工作和治理系统及其对人类健康的影响进行了对比。作为参与安大略生态健康合作组织的公共卫生和规划从业者，我们认为应该认识到我们的狩猎采集者本性，以促进共同努力，建立可持续和公平的社区基础设施，包括建筑和绿化。尽管加拿大多个司法管辖区都在进行此类努力，但对于人类所面临的地方性慢性疾病和全球环境变化的负担而言，步伐缓慢得令人沮丧。提醒不情愿的利益相关者注意我们所有人中的狩猎采集者，可能会促使他们更深入地反思在重新调整社区规划方面的紧迫工作。
