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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
