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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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- A New Sociopolitical Framework is Urgently Needed
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Sub-Saharan Africa's health challenges are numerous 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.
- Richard Horton, Selina Lo
- 2015
Sep 17, 2024 · Climate change presents a substantial global threat to human health and wellbeing. Planetary health, an emerging field, provides a comprehensive framework to comprehend the intricate interplay between ecological stability, human health, and ecosystems, particularly within the context of climate change. This study investigates the planetary health perspective on climate change by exploring ...
Planetary health sets the ambitious task of understanding the dynamic and systemic relationships between global environmental changes, their effects on natural systems, and how changes to natural systems affect human health and wellbeing at multiple scales: global (eg, climate), regional (eg, transboundary fire emissions), and local (eg, persistent organic pollutants). By emphasising ...
- Montira J Pongsiri, Sam Bickersteth, Cristina Colón, Ruth DeFries, Mandeep Dhaliwal, Lucien Georgeso...
- 2019
May 20, 2024 · Planetary health takes a holistic approach to health, recognizing the need to address social, economic, and environmental factors that impact human well-being. Climate change is the most pressing challenge facing planetary health, with the potential to cause catastrophic consequences for human health.
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Apr 15, 2024 · This year marks the 15th anniversary of the first publication of the framework of “planetary boundaries,” which describes the biophysical limits of Earth systems that, if breached, could have devastating consequences for humanity.1 Six years after this publication, the report of the Rockefeller-Lancet Commission on Planetary Health defined the concept as “the health of human ...
