Planetary health: from concept to decisive action

Pongsiri, Montira J.; Bickersteth, Sam; Colón, Cristina; DeFries, Ruth; Dhaliwal, Mandeep; Georgeson, Lucien; Haines, Andy; Linou, Natalia; Murray, Virginia; Naeem, Shahid; Small, Roy; Ungvari‐Martin, Judit

doi:10.1016/s2542-5196(19)30190-1

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“…These are equally important to ongoing pandemic responses and recovery 69,70 . We must widen the public's and policymakers’ understanding of issues that sit on the health and environment nexus, supported by growing the evidence base for planetary health solutions 71 . But sharing evidence is not enough.…”

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Our Postpandemic World: What Will It Take to Build a Better Future for People and Planet?

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Despite the pandemic's ongoing devastating impacts, it also offers the opportunity and lessons for building a better, fairer, and sustainable world. Transformational change will require new ways of working, challenging powerful individuals and industries who worsened the crisis, will act to exploit it for personal gain, and will work to ensure that the future aligns with their interests. A flourishing world needs strong and equitable structures and systems, including strengthened democratic, research, and educational institutions, supported by ideas and discourses that are free of opaque and conflicted influence and that challenge the status quo and inequitable distribution of power.

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“…In the last 20 years, scientific understanding has shifted to broader and more complex models to explain natural phenomena, introducing interdisciplinary science as a promising tool for the future (Dahlgren & Whitehead, 1991; McMichael, 2001; Pearce et al, 2019; Whitmee et al, 2015). However, there have only recently been efforts to develop new paradigms which take into account complexity and an interdisciplinary approach in environmental health (EH) research and actions (Buse et al, 2018; Pongsiri et al, 2019).…”

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Family doctors to connect global concerns due to climate change with local actions: State‐of‐the art and some proposals

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Serafini

Santamaria³

et al. 2021

World Med & Health Policy

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Climate change (CC) is the most challenging environmental health (EH) concern. Air pollution is closely linked to CC. However, many CC‐health‐related conditions (i.e., allergic diseases, asthma, hypertension, fluid and electrolyte disorders, child and adult obesity, type 2 diabetes, vector‐borne diseases) are not usually counted, either because they do not cause death or require hospital admission/emergency triage. They are the vast majority of health care seeking generally treated by family doctors (FDs) and family pediatricians (FPs). FDs/FPs are often not aware of CC‐health‐impacts. Their potential role in tackling such a global challenge through their local influence on individual and collective attitudes and policies is not considered. Proper FD training could fill these gaps, raise awareness of their role, and implement EH FDs/FPs‐based surveillance networks to collect, analyze, interpret, and report EH data to inform EH‐related Policy. FDs and FPs, organized in sentinel physicians' networks, could play a key role in advising policymakers at the local and regional level in designing interventions adapted to climate‐related issues. Such experiences are rare worldwide and not well known. We will describe and discuss them in detail to share successful local examples.

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“…In the face of climate and environmental change, planetary health has emerged as an integrative paradigm that both links and works to better understand the complex dynamics between the health of people and the natural systems on which we depend. 1,2 Led by the world's youth, the global wave of climate strikes in 2019 demonstrated that there is wide recognition that human health is impacted by social and ecological determinants, including climate and environmental change such as chemical and plastic pollution, ocean acidification, land degradation, and biodiversity loss. 1 Given these threats to human health and well-being, the ecological determinants of health have appropriately been named one of the top five strategic priorities at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH), and Sustainability is one of the DLSPH's core values.…”

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A call for mandatory planetary health education in public health and health services research programs

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Reed

Toccalino

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The effects of global climate and environmental change endanger health, health systems, and public health infrastructure. As future public health and health services professionals, researchers, and clinicians, we will be tasked with protecting and promoting the health of communities in the face of these realities. However, there is limited integration of the environment-health nexus into the curricula of public health and health services research programs. Planetary health, an integrative paradigm linking the complex dynamics between the health of people to the natural systems on which we depend, offers an inroad to equipping emerging health system leaders with the skills and knowledge to protect people and the planet. We call on our institutions to follow other health disciplines, such as medicine, and embed planetary health and environmentally sustainable healthcare practices into core educational offerings.

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Planetary health: from concept to decisive action

Cited by 38 publications

References 5 publications

Our Postpandemic World: What Will It Take to Build a Better Future for People and Planet?

Our Postpandemic World: What Will It Take to Build a Better Future for People and Planet?

Family doctors to connect global concerns due to climate change with local actions: State‐of‐the art and some proposals

A call for mandatory planetary health education in public health and health services research programs

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