Lessons for Health From Insights into Environmental Crises

Benatar, Solomon R.

doi:10.1177/0020731415596296

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“…In the next decades, US per capita material and energy consumption needs to be scaled down to a terrestrial scale [66,68,[69][70][71]. Since US health care already comprises a significant proportion of GDP, if the economy is to be scaled down, so must health care [72,73]. It needs to be materially less ambitious, more modest, simpler, and more manageable [74].…”

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What Moral Distress in Nursing History Could Suggest about the Future of Health Care

2017

AMA Journal of Ethics

135

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The concept of moral distress was defined in 1984 as (a) the psychological distress of (b) being in a situation in which one is constrained from acting (c) on what one knows to be right. A substantial literature on the subject has developed, primarily in nursing ethics. The aforementioned elements of distress are applied here to areas of clinical and organizational significance: (a) distress from causing intimate pain during care of the dying, (b) constraints stemming from proximate and background challenges of health care organizations, and (c) changing perspectives on therapeutic technologies derived from global environmental perspectives. Although moral distress may be increasing in clinical settings, nursing advocates are developing positive ways to cope with it that can help clinicians in general. IntroductionAfter its first use in nursing over 30 years ago, the concept of moral distress has proven applicable to a growing range of problematic situations. This essay outlines a few motifs in the development of the concept in nursing ethics and then considers some current applications of the concept. Starting with the bedside care of the dying, it sets moral distress in successively wider contexts, concluding with some morally problematic global environmental challenges that health care services will need to address during the next decades.

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Section: Looking Ahead: Larger Problems and Possible Solutionsmentioning

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What Moral Distress in Nursing History Could Suggest about the Future of Health Care

2017

AMA Journal of Ethics

135

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“…The importance and urgency of health-related issues in global governance have never been so evident as what they are now [1]. Globalization, together with the deterioration in the environment and climate change, have led to a series of major challenges to global health development and global health security [2,3].…”

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China-UK partnership for global health: practices and implications of the Global Health Support Programme 2012–2019

Wang

Liu

et al. 2020

glob health res policy

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Background: Over the past few decades, a series of major challenges to global health have successively emerged, which call for China's deeper engagement in global health governance. In this context, the China-UK Global Health Support Programme (GHSP) was launched in 2012 with about 12 million pounds funded by the United Kingdom. Objectives: The GHSP was expected to explore a new type of China-UK partnership to strengthen the cooperation in global health, and enhance China's capacity to engage in global health governance and provide effective development assistance in health (DAH), in order to jointly improve global health outcomes. Programme design and implementation: The GHSP was programmed to support capacity building activities in Chinese experience distillation, DAH, global health governance and pilot partnership at national and institutional levels between October 2012 and March 2019. These activities were assigned to different project implementing agencies (PIAs) and their project cooperative agencies (PCAs) or pilot areas, and were then implemented under the guidance and management by the strategic oversight committee and the project management office of GHSP respectively. Main achievements: At the national level, the GHSP held five rounds of China-UK high-level dialogues, conducted studies on China Global Health Strategies to provide robust evidence for developing and issuing relevant national policies, and supported the establishment of the China Global Health Network. At the institutional level, the GHSP funded a series of activities in research, training, international exchange and pilots etc., produced a large number of high-quality research outputs and policy briefings, cultivated a group of PIAs and individual researchers, facilitated the partnership building between the PIAs and PCAs, enhanced the practical ability of Chinese institutions to conduct overseas DAH, and improved the health service delivery and outcomes in pilot areas of three Asian and African countries. Policy implications: In the GHSP, China and UK have established a good model for North-South Cooperation and the programme facilitated the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by building a new type of bilateral partnership and carrying out triangular cooperation practices. This model has demonstrated huge potential for cooperation through partnership and can also be referred to by other countries to develop bilateral partnerships.

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“…With the acceleration of global industrialization, the contradiction between increasing energy demand and energy scarcity has become increasingly prominent in economic development [1]. The overloading of energy systems will inevitably bring tremendous pressure to the construction of the ecological environment [2]. Energy supply, economic development, and ecological environment construction complement one another and promote the sustainable development of society through proper coordination to create a coordinated effect.…”

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Coupling and Coordination Development of Australian Energy, Economy, and Ecological Environment Systems from 2007 to 2016

Yan

Chen

2019

Sustainability

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Energy, economy and ecological environment complement each other. The coupling and coordination development of them would provide basis for the rational use of energy, economic development, and the protection and restoration of the ecological environment. In this study, the coupling and coordination development of the Australian energy, economy, and ecological environment from 2007 to 2016 were quantitatively investigated by constructing a coupling coordination model based on coupling theory. Results showed that: (1) Australia's comprehensive evaluation index of energy, economy, and ecological environment exhibited an increasing trend. The rising trend of the energy index was obvious, the economy was relatively stable, and the comprehensive evaluation index of the ecological environment strongly fluctuated. (2) The development of energy and the economy, and that of energy and the ecological environment were gradually coordinated, and many unbalanced development patterns were found between the economy and the ecological environment. (3) Four types of coordination were observed in the three subsystems, among them, the barely coordinated categories repeated most often and the coordination degree of the three subsystems tended to grow from the global perspective. Energy, economy, and ecological environment interacted, limited, and promoted one another to form a complex system, through proper coordination, these three subsystems can jointly promote the sustainable development of society in Australia.The academic community's research on energy, the economy, and the environment has experienced the process of "single system-binary system-ternary system." Kraft and Kraft [3] first investigated the relationship between economic growth and energy consumption. Grossman and Krueger [4] observed that economic growth and environment quality exhibit an inverted U-shaped curve, which Panayotou [5] called the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) relationship. These studies mainly focused on the binary systems of energy-economy, economy-environment, and environment-energy. With the increasing awareness on energy, the economy, and the ecological environment, people have realized that these binary systems are insufficient to comprehensively and systematically investigate the coordinated development of energy, the economy, and the environment. Therefore, many energy research and environmental protection institutes have cooperated with economists to construct a research framework of the three subsystems and conduct comprehensive research on their coordinated development. In 1995, Hawdon and Pearson [6] investigated the complex relationship between energy, the environment, and economic welfare by using input-output simulations. Oliveira and Antunes presented a multi objective model [7] and a multisectoral energy-economy-environment model [8] and used them to evaluate the effects of economic structure and energy system changes on the environment. Since then, the study of the relationship between the three subsystems has become a new resea...

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Lessons for Health From Insights into Environmental Crises

Cited by 9 publications

References 50 publications

What Moral Distress in Nursing History Could Suggest about the Future of Health Care

What Moral Distress in Nursing History Could Suggest about the Future of Health Care

China-UK partnership for global health: practices and implications of the Global Health Support Programme 2012–2019

Coupling and Coordination Development of Australian Energy, Economy, and Ecological Environment Systems from 2007 to 2016

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