PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Lindsay McLaren
AU  - Penelope Hawe
TI  - Ecological perspectives in health research
AID  - 10.1136/jech.2003.018044
DP  - 2005 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
PG  - 6--14
VI  - 59
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jech.bmj.com/content/59/1/6.short
4100  - http://jech.bmj.com/content/59/1/6.full
SO  - J Epidemiol Community Health2005 Jan 01; 59
AB  - An ecological perspective on health emphasises both individual and contextual systems and the interdependent relations between the two. Origins of this approach have emanated from multiple disciplines over the past century or more. This article provides a glossary of perspectives, processes, and settings that pertain to an ecological approach in health research.