Saving the Rainforest through Health Care: Medicine as Conservation in Borneo (期刊文章)

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作者/编辑: Robbie Ali and Sonja M. Jacobs

作者/编者档案 Robbie Ali
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health
13(3) ( 2007 )

摘要

This article gives an overview of rainforest conservation as it relates to human health and describes the context, design, and implementation of the Kelay Conservation Health Program (KCHP). The KCHP is a health program for indigenous people living in a critical area of orangutan rainforest habitat in Indonesian Borneo also developed to aid conservation efforts there. Program design included consideration of both health and conservation goals, participatory planning in collaboration with the government health system, a focus on community managed health, capacity building, and adaptive management. After two years the program had, at relatively low cost, already had positive impacts on both human health (e.g., child immunization rates) and conservation (e.g., local forest protection measures, attitudes of villagers and government officials towards the implementing conservation agency).

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