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Our Common Home: Embracing Spiritual Tenets Within a Novel Integrative Environmental Health Promotion Framework to Advance People, Place, and Planetary (3P) Health

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  • Molly M. Scanlon

    (Department of Community, Environment, and Policy, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA)

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This essay poses a novel integrative environmental health promotion (EHP) framework inclusive of spiritual tenets to increase interdisciplinary science as well as public engagement for improved people, place, and planetary (3P) health outcomes. Environmental public health professionals have typically relied upon quantitative scientific evidence related to negative human health outcomes from toxic exposures. Environmental health lags behind more progressive mixed-methods research frameworks leveraging health promotion and 3P health initiatives. This essay argues for a novel integrative EHP framework to encourage more mixed-methods research based on merging an integrative health (body-mind-spirit) perspective and the public health ecological model. Using a three-dimensional Cartesian Coordinate System, the author developed a visual integrative EHP framework with the future ability to record, interpret, and report data with units of measure in three dimensions rather than the traditional x- and y -axis variable relationships. The long-term goal is to engage researchers, study participants, and the general public in exploring new 3P health research and outcomes inclusive of the spiritual axis to leverage more scientific evidence for the care and nurturing of our common home as a basic tenet of civil society.

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  • Molly M. Scanlon, 2026. "Our Common Home: Embracing Spiritual Tenets Within a Novel Integrative Environmental Health Promotion Framework to Advance People, Place, and Planetary (3P) Health," Challenges, MDPI, vol. 17(1), pages 1-22, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jchals:v:17:y:2026:i:1:p:10-:d:1874810
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