Overview of field developments
| Field development | Time of emergence | Orienting concept(s)/approaches | Example texts/Journals* |
| Occupational and environmental health | Mid-19th CE | Health impacts of environmental and occupational hazards; risk management | Environmental health: from global to local10; Environmental and Occupational Health; International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health; American Journal of Industrial Medicine; Environmental Health Perspectives; Occupational and Environmental Medicine |
| Political ecology of health | Late 20th CE | How authority, power and the organisation of human society interact with environmental determinants of health | Political ecology12; Social Science and Medicine; Journal of Political Ecology; Medical Anthropology; Health & Place |
| Environmental justice | Late 20th CE | What is moral or just in the production of environmental health outcomes; legal and procedural relationships between health equity and environmental management | Unequal protection: environmental justice and communities of color16; Environmental Justice; Health and Justice |
| Ecohealth | Late 20th CE | Ecosystems as foundational to human health and well-being; sustainability; systems thinking; multistakeholder participation; transdisciplinarity; social and gender equity; knowledge to action | Ecohealth research in practice31; EcoHealth |
| One Health | Mid-late 20th CE, although gained prominence in early 21st CE | Human/animal/ecosystem nexus; zoonosis and infectious disease modelling and management | One Health: the theory and practice of integrated health approaches34; One Health; International Journal of One Health; EcoHealth |
| Ecological public health | Early 21st CE | Ecological determinants of health; ecosocial theory; interdependence between ecosystem and human health | Ecological public health39; Ecological determinants of health65; American Journal of Public Health; Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health |
| Planetary health | Early 21st CE | Understanding and living within planetary (ecological) limits under which modern civilization can flourish | The Lancet Planetary Health; GeoHealth |
*Titles of texts are linked to relevant citations and named journals are italicised.
CE, Common Era.