Toward Language Justice in Environmental Health Sciences in the United States: A Case for Spanish as a Language of Science.

Autor: Ornelas Van Horne Y; Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA., Diaz LM; Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA., Trowbridge J; Department of Obstetrics Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA., Alcala CS; Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA., González DJX; Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.; Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Environmental health perspectives [Environ Health Perspect] 2023 Aug; Vol. 131 (8), pp. 85001. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Aug 23.
DOI: 10.1289/EHP12306
Abstrakt: Background: Increasingly, marginalized communities are disproportionately facing the worsening effects of environmental hazards, including air pollution, water pollution, and climate change. Language isolation and accessibility has been understudied as a determinant of health. Spanish, despite being the second-most common language in the United States with some 41.8 million speakers, has been neglected among environmental health scientists. Building capacity in high-quality Spanish-language science communication, both for scientific and nonscientific audiences, can yield improvements in health disparities research, public health literacy, international collaborations, and diversity and inclusion efforts.
Objectives: In this article, we discuss the context of language diversity in environmental health sciences and offer recommendations for improving science communication in Spanish.
Discussion: English is currently the predominant language for scientific discourse, but Spanish and other non-English languages are routinely used by many environmental health science students and professionals, as well as much of the public. To more effectively conduct and communicate environmental health work in Spanish, we suggest that researchers and scientific institutions a ) foster structural changes, b ) train emerging scholars and support established researchers, c ) tap into community ways of knowing, and d ) leverage emerging technologies. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP12306.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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