2022
Health equity knowledge development: A conversation with Black nurse researchers
PHaJI Author: LD Oakley, PhD, RN Can the institutional systems that prepare Black nurse researchers question the ways their systemic pathways have impacted health equity knowledge development in nursing? We invite our readers to keep …
Planetary health nursing
PHaJI Author: Jessica LeClair, MPH, RN Planetary health is focused on the interconnectedness of the health of humans, other species, and the physical environment. Disruption of the Earth’s natural ecosystems due to human overconsumption, disregard …
Defining climate justice in nursing for public and planetary health
PHaJI Author: Jessica LeClair, MPH, RN Climate change is an immediate public health threat, inflicting unjust burdens on marginalized and displaced peoples and their surrounding ecosystems. Without focused and strategic action, these injustices will exacerbate …
2021
“Being on the walk put it somewhere in my body”: The meaning of place in health for Indigenous women
PHaJI Author: Angela Fernandez, PhD, MPH, LCSW Relationship to place is integral to Indigenous health. A qualitative, secondary phenomenological analysis of in-depth interviews with four non-Choctaw Indigenous women participating in an outdoor, experiential tribally specific …
A Call to Action: Understanding Land Use-induced Zoonotic Spillover to Protect Environmental, Animal, and Human Health
PHaJI Author: Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH The rapid global spread and human health impacts of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, show humanity’s vulnerability to zoonotic disease pandemics. Although anthropogenic land use change is known …
Nutritional and Health Benefits of Increasing Insect Consumption in Africa and Asia
PHaJI Author: Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH Most global dietary forecasts predict a reduction in nutritional deficiencies over the next several decades driven by significant increases in environmentally unsustainable livestock and animal source food consumption. Here, …
Toward Urban Planetary Health Solutions to Climate Change and Other Modern Crises
PHaJI Author: Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH (no abstract) Patz JA and Siri JG. Toward Urban Planetary Health Solutions to Climate Change and Other Modern Crises (2021) J Urban Health https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-021-00540-3
Health professionals as advocates for climate solutions: A case study from Wisconsin
PHaJI Author: Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH Health professionals are in a unique position to accelerate the creation of policies to mitigate and adapt to the public health emergency that is the climate crisis. At the …
Climate solutions double as health interventions
PHaJI Author: Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH The climate crisis threatens to exacerbate numerous climate-sensitive health risks, including heatwave mortality, malnutrition from reduced crop yields, water- and vector-borne infectious diseases, and respiratory illness from smog, ozone, …
Building kincentric awareness in planetary health education: A rapid evidence review
PHaJI Author: Jessica LeClair, MPH, RN The current definition of planetary health has been criticized for having a hierarchical anthropocentric focus that values the importance of human health outcomes over other beings in the biosphere. …
Nursing strategies for environmental justice: A scoping review
PHaJI Authors: Jessica LeClair, MPH, RN The objective of this scoping review is to describe types of strategic actions nurses take to promote environmental justice (EJ) through research, education, advocacy, and practice (REAP) reported in …
Critical environmental justice nursing for planetary health: A guiding framework
PHaJI Authors: Jessica LeClair, MPH, RN, Jeneile Luebke, PhD, RN, LD Oakley, PhD, RN Personal and planetary environmental justice has become a driving force for innovation in nursing science. The purpose of our Critical Environmental …
2020
Land Use-induced Spillover: Priority Actions for Protected and Conserved Area Managers
PHaJI Author: Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH Earth systems are under ever greater pressure from human population expansion and intensifying natural resource use. Consequently, novel micro-organisms that cause disease are emerging, dynamics of pathogens in wildlife …