Need for an innovative health education approach on the health effects of e-waste

Rungrawee Samawathdana; Muge Akpinar-Elci

Need for an innovative health education approach on the health effects of e-waste

Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences -- formerly Kasetsart Journal (Social Sciences), Volume 042, Issue 4, October 2021- December 2021, Pages 976-981

ISSN: 2452-3151(0125-8370)

DOI: doi.org/10.34044/j.kjss.2021.42.4.35

Rungrawee Samawathdana^a,*, Muge Akpinar-Elci^b

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^aHealth and Physical Education, Curriculum and Instruction Department, Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

^bDirector of the Center for Global Health, Community & Environmental Health, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA

^*Corresponding author, e-mail: rungrawee1113@gmail.com, rungrawee.sa@chula.ac.th

Abstract

This article aimed to describe the global issue of e-waste and the case of the current situation in Thailand, to shape awareness regarding current e-waste issues, and to propose sustainable health education methods of solving the related problems. The alternative way in this case is for electronic manufacturing companies to cooperate with their governments and react with a response with a win-win operation on e-waste issue. Moreover, the concept of developing an academic guideline model at the community level including community health programs focusing on the activity’s operation are infrequently found. This is unlike the content on e-waste that would be commonly worldwide accessed. The generation concept of e-waste, global issues, and the example case of Thailand were discussed to clarify and raise issues for developing a community health education guideline model.

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community health program, e-waste, global environmental health, health education, sustainable

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Need for an innovative health education approach on the health effects of e-waste

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