Overview
Population: Family Planning (Birth Spacing, limiting births, emergency contraception, adolescent sexual and Reproductive Health, etc.) Health: HIV/AIDS, ARI Prevention, water and sanitation, malaria prevention, primary health care, child survival, etc. Environment: Environmental conservation, natural resources management (NRM). Fisheries management, forest management and governance, conservation of endangered species, etc. Population, Health and Environment (PHE) projects acknowledge and address the complex connections between humans, their health, and their environment. PHE operates with the assumption that people, their health, and the environment are interrelated and interdependent; changes in the number, state, and/or distribution of any of the above affects the others; human needs, their livelihood and a healthy environment are linked by chains of cause and effect.
The key objective of PHE projects is to simultaneously improve access to health services while also helping communities manage their natural resources in ways that improve their health and livelihoods and conserve the critical ecosystems they depend upon.(Environmental Health project, 2008).