Centric’s Araceli Camargo features in published paper on involving young people for health equity against the fossil fuel industry.

1 Sept

Lab Director Araceli Camargo was a recent named author on a published paper titled Interventions involving young people for health equity targeting the fossil fuel industry’s practices and products: A realist review protocol led by long time collaborator Dr Abi Deivanayagam.

ABSTRACT

The fossil fuel industry’s practices and products create wide‑ranging harms to human health, with disproportionate impacts on communities already affected by structural disadvantage. Young people, particularly adolescents, are among those most affected by these harms, yet they are often excluded from health and climate decision-making. At the same time, youth-led initiatives to counter the fossil fuel industry’s practices and products are increasing globally. Despite this momentum, little is known about what interventions involving adolescents exist, how they work, and under what circumstances they may reduce health inequities driven by the fossil fuel industry. This study protocol aims to address this gap by conducting a realist review to explore how interventions involving adolescents can counter industry practices and products. It takes a structural racism lens to examine how inequities shape both exposure to harm and opportunities for participation. The review seeks to identify relevant interventions, understand the mechanisms through which they produce change, and examine the contexts that enable or hinder their effectiveness.

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