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Doctors take the lead against air pollution

Doctors take the lead against air pollution

by Park Doctor | May 11, 2019 | Doctors and Conservation, Important, Planetary Health, Resources

Doctors in the UK have taken a stand against air pollution. Findings show that over 40 towns across the UK have toxic levels of air pollution (according to WHO standards), and doctors say this accounts for the shortening of 40 000 lives every year. This is an example...
UN GEO Report: Human health in dire straits

UN GEO Report: Human health in dire straits

by Park Doctor | May 7, 2019 | Doctors and Conservation, Important, Planetary Health, Resources

“This is the most thorough, most detailed and most extensive planetary health check. The take-home message is that we should have gone to the doctor sooner. We are in a bad way. The society we would like our children and grandchildren to live in is in real jeopardy. I...
The Bigger Picture: Civilisation Health

The Bigger Picture: Civilisation Health

by Park Doctor | Feb 5, 2019 | Important, Planetary Health

The Lancet Planetary Health has published a call for more articles on the concept of Civilisational Health. As they put it: “It is useful to think of civilisational health in terms of a more familiar and somewhat less grandiose term: sustainability. Analogous to...
Healthy Parks Healthy People

Healthy Parks Healthy People

by Park Doctor | Jan 20, 2019 | Doctors and Conservation, Important, Planetary Health, Protected Areas, Resources

The IUCN’s (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) 2014 conference in Sydney was the setting for the launch of their Health Parks Healthy People stream. The concept behind the stream is that humans need green spaces for their health – both...
Climate change is in my lane

Climate change is in my lane

by Park Doctor | Jan 9, 2019 | Doctors and Conservation, Important, Planetary Health

A Medscape article entitled Physicians Starting to Claim Climate Change is ‘In My Lane’ gives several examples of individual physicians who are starting to recognise the impact of the environment, and its deterioration, on their patients’ health, and...
Tools for young doctors who want to lead change

Tools for young doctors who want to lead change

by Park Doctor | Oct 16, 2018 | Doctors and Conservation, Important, Planetary Health, Resources

Medical schools equip students with the knowledge and skills to undertake the technical practice of medicine. It has been argued that there is inadequate attention paid to the shaping of the future generation to function safely and enable them, in exercising...
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