Reducing poverty sustainably, in a carbon-constrained future

Woodward, David S.; Labonté, Ronald

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(08)61051-x

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“…As noted, large developing countries such as China and India are already greatly increasing their CO 2 emissions, but are refusing to consider limitations unless the developed nations, particularly the U.S.A. promise their own major reductions. Reducing poverty is essential for the provision of adequate health care in areas where it is currently unavailable, but constraints imposed by the threat of global warming imply that poverty cannot be reduced simply by continued economic growth (Woodward and Labonte, 2008). …”

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Article Commentary: Environmental Health: Threats and their Interactions

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2008

Environ�Health�Insights

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Improvements in the provision of an acceptable standard of health care, particularly in the developing world, will be undermined by three ongoing processes: ongoing armed conflicts; the threat of global warming due to rising levels of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide emitted by developed countries; and by rapidly rising populations. The key features of these three threats are summarised, and it is shown that interactions between them increase both the likelihood of their occurrence and the probable harm that they will cause. Some of the interactions are described, with ways of providing health care taking into account the threats and their interactions, and the paradox is emphasised that better health care in the developing world will further increase population growth followed by increased greenhouse gas emissions. Improved education for women and free and unlimited access to modern methods of contraception are vital.

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Article Commentary: Environmental Health: Threats and their Interactions

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2008

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Global public health: a scorecard

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Toward a post-Charter health promotion

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2011

Health Promotion International

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The past 25 years have seen enormous shifts in the environmental, political, economic and social landscapes that condition people's abilities to be healthy. Climate change is now a reality. China, India, Brazil and other 'developing' countries are emerging as new axes of political and economic power. Global capitalism has become increasingly predatory and crisis ridden, a result of unregulated and irresponsible greed of unimaginable scale. The elite response has been the increased erosion of the health and other social protection policies of redistribution that characterized the first-world run-up to the Ottawa Charter. These new realities challenge health promoters in ways unforeseen a quarter century ago. It is imperative that local determinants of health, to which health promoters give their attention, be traced to broader, even global levels of determinants. Support for groups acting at these levels should become a fundamental practice tenet. So, too, should advocacy for the social state, in which progressive taxation and hefty social investment blunt the health inequalities created by unfettered markets. As environmental and economic insecurities and inequalities increase in many of the world's countries, so does the risk of xenophobia and conflict. The roots of racism are complex; but weeding them out becomes another health promotion practice of the new millennium. There are some hopeful signs of health promoting political change, much of it emanating now from countries in the global South; but the threat of a return to health behaviourism in the face of the new global pandemic of chronic disease is real and must be confronted.

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Reducing poverty sustainably, in a carbon-constrained future

Cited by 3 publications

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Article Commentary: Environmental Health: Threats and their Interactions

Article Commentary: Environmental Health: Threats and their Interactions

Global public health: a scorecard

Toward a post-Charter health promotion

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