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Dec 23, 2017 · The impact of human activities on our planet's natural systems has been intensifying rapidly in the past several decades, leading to disruption and transformation of most natural systems. These disruptions in the atmosphere, oceans, and across the terrestrial land surface are not only driving species to extinction, they pose serious threats to human health and wellbeing. Characterising and ...
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Planetary health. More recently, the concept of “planetary health” (PH) was launched by The Lancet and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. Its scope supposedly goes beyond the boundaries of “the existing GH framework to take into consideration the natural systems upon which human health depends” [27, p. 847]. However, as explained ...
Jul 21, 2015 · We have previously tried to set out the minimum conditions for planetary health. 2–4 As Stephen Boyden wrote in his book, The Biology of Civilisation, “While the main threats to humankind today are the consequence of the human aptitude for culture, our only hope for overcoming them lies in this aptitude”. 5 Human cultures contain both the threat and opportunity for human flourishing.
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- 2015
Mar 12, 2019 · The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health1 in 2015 argued that although human health has improved dramatically between 1950 and 2010, this gain was accompanied by unprecedented environmental degradation that now threatens both human health and life-support systems. The sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6)—Healthy Planet, Healthy People—a report adopted by 193 ...
- Joyeeta Gupta, Joyeeta Gupta, Fintan Hurley, Ania Grobicki, Terry Keating, Peter Stoett, Elaine Bake...
- 2019
Planetary health is a growing field that recognizes the complex interactions between degradation of the planet’s natural systems secondary to human activity and the interconnected human health impacts. 17,32 Adverse health outcomes can result from direct impacts such as exposure to higher temperatures, polluted air and water, and fatalities from more frequent extreme weather events ...
May 20, 2024 · Planetary health was first defined in 2015 as the “health of human civilization and the state of the natural systems on which it depends.” 5 It is an interdisciplinary field that explores the consequences of human-induced disruptions on the environment and the subsequent repercussions on human health. 5 Recognizing the interdependence between earth’s natural ecosystems and human health ...
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Public Health in the Anthropocene is characterised by planetary impacts. Global heating and the climate crisis. Large-scale pollution of air and water. Ecosystem collapse and mass extinction. Each of these challenges taken on its own presents a monumental threat to human health. But these pressures also interact in complex and unpredictable ...
