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We Need a Ground Crew for Environmental Health Working Upstream: Using Explanatory Metaphors to Improve Public Understanding of Environmental Health and its Workforce

People believe we should live free from health threats in their environments - but lack ways to think about the work that takes. Two metaphors can help.
Author(s)
Eric Lindland, Andrew Volmert and Abigail Haydon
Published
May 15, 2014
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This report presents the results of qualitative and quantitative research designed to develop two Explanatory Metaphors — Upstream Environments, Downstream Health and Ground Crew for Environmental Health — that help shift public thinking towards more productive ways of thinking about the scope and importance of environmental health work.

Issues
Climate Change and Environment Health
Countries
United States

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