ECOHEALTH TRAINING AWARDS- 2002 THEME “Building the Concepts and Tools for Assessing Human Health Status Outcomes within an Ecosystem Approach to Human Health” By

During previous editions of the Ecosystem Approaches to Human Health Training Award, a majority of applicants have come from an ENRM disciplinary background. Since the ultimate goal of our approach is to enhance human health, it was suggested that it might be important to reach and involve a larger proportion of researchers from the human health sector. This year’s awardees training week will therefore attempts to strengthen the human health component of the Ecosystem Approaches to Human Health Training Awards, and focus on the multiple dimensions of the human health and well-being continuum. Specific attention will be given to human health methodologies and indicators and specific markers of these dimensions. This year’s theme is grounded in the notion that the Awards Program is an appropriate place to enhance the human health aspects of the Ecosystem Approaches to Human Health program. It would represent an opportunity to draw in more population health / public health professionals and academics into the paradigm. By engaging with determinants of health and the assessment of community health status, the program opens space for including new developments in public health in its framework. The human health dimension in the context of the Ecohealth approac