A call for clinicians to act on planetary health
2019; Elsevier BV; Volume: 393; Issue: 10185 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0140-6736(19)30846-3
ISSN1474-547X
AutoresErika Veidis, Samuel S. Myers, Amalia A Almada, Christopher D. Golden,
Tópico(s)Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
ResumoWe are rapidly changing the world around us. A growing and urbanising human population with expanding patterns of production and consumption is driving rapid global environmental change, manifested in large-scale biodiversity loss, climate change, deforestation and land degradation, resource scarcity, changing biogeochemical flows, and pollution. 1 Steffen W Broadgate W Deutsch L Gaffney O Ludwig C The trajectory of the Anthropocene: the great acceleration. Anthropocene Rev. 2015; 2: 81-98 Crossref Scopus (1446) Google Scholar While the second half of the 20th century has seen major global health gains, the future of global health is increasingly under threat, with a growing non-communicable disease burden, expanding nutritional vulnerability, new infectious disease exposures, and susceptibility to displacement, injury, and mental health risks, all of which disproportionately threaten the poor, the young, the elderly, and future generations. 2 Myers S Planetary health: protecting human health on a rapidly changing planet. Lancet. 2017; 390: 2860-2868 Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (91) Google Scholar This is the focus of planetary health, which characterises the connections between human-caused disruptions of Earth's natural systems and the resulting impacts on human health and makes the case for globally concerted action. 3 Whitmee S Haines A Beyrer C et al. Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health. Lancet. 2015; 386: 1973-2028 Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (1122) Google Scholar
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