Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, 3333 University Way, Kelowna, BC, V1V 1V7, Canada.
Faculty of Medicine, Northern Medical Program, University of British Columbia, 3333 University Way, Prince George, BC, V2N 4Z9, Canada.
Health Place. 2022 Jul;76:102817. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102817. Epub 2022 May 27.
Through an anti-colonial and critical race theoretical framework as well as arts-based methods (photovoice) that engage Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth, we explore the question: what do youth perceive as healthy and just environments and communities? Youth identified two overarching, strength-based messages: Firstly, youth demonstrate the need for a structural-level analysis of the conditions that influence individual-level outcomes of environmental health. Secondly, youth perspectives on healthy and justice-oriented environments and communities challenge environmental health scholars to consider youth as powerful actors. Youth perspectives of healthy and justice-oriented communities present a necessarily structural perspective to consider not only the impacts of environmental decision-making on health, but the conditions that have allowed for harmful impacts. In doing so, youth demonstrate the need for intersectional and complex understandings of health and wellbeing when discussing the environment. And, as we argue here, challenge us as scholars of environmental health to do the same.
通过反殖民和批判种族理论框架以及以艺术为基础的方法（摄影），让原住民和非原住民青年参与其中，我们探讨了这样一个问题：青年认为什么样的环境和社区是健康和公正的？青年提出了两个总体的、基于优势的信息：首先，青年表明需要对影响环境健康个体结果的条件进行结构层面的分析。其次，青年对健康和公正导向的环境和社区的看法，要求环境健康学者将青年视为强有力的行动者。青年对健康和公正导向社区的看法提出了一种必要的结构性视角，不仅要考虑环境决策对健康的影响，还要考虑造成有害影响的条件。这样做，青年们展示了当讨论环境时，需要对健康和福祉进行交叉和复杂的理解。正如我们在这里所主张的，这要求我们这些环境健康学者也这样做。
