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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Mar 15.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2023 Jan 18;221:115295. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.115295

Table 3.

Overview of Insights from Workshop Participants According to Stave’s Typology

Insight Typology Key Concepts from Workshop Participants Example correspondence to the S&F diagram
Problem Related Insights Intergenerational aspects Shift in the motivating problem definition away from health consequences from individual exposures towards “cumulative environmental exposure stock” and away from only considering effects on current populations towards exposures generating future risk.
Structural Insights Need for effective communication between stakeholders who make up the system; seeing implications of accumulations of chemical exposures and adverse childhood experiences, the role inherent government agency silos; importance of working across environmental media for better environmental health protections Identifying hypothesized interacting and compounding links between exposures to health outcomes (e.g. health status, neurological functioning, and aberrant behavior combining to influence academic achievement); conceptualizing environmental exposures as arrayed accumulations following similar mechanisms rather than unique processes; how adverse health effects caused by pollutant exposure can spill over into other domains such as education and employment
Dynamic Insights Potential points of intervention and the downstream consequences of actions Mentally simulating consequences of housing interventions on health outcomes, ACES, and future education & employment outcomes.
Paradigmatic Insights Fight reductionism; engage with the public; force experts to get out of silos Seeing where existing actions are focused on the diagram, and where there are significant gaps; identifying the potential for systems maps and visualization for cross-silo dialogue.