Climate Change

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Editorial from 233 international health and medicine journals (2021 Sept 6)

• Climate Crisis: Over 200 Health Journals Urge World Leaders to Tackle "Catastrophic Harm"

The Lancet

Access all The Lancet Planetary Health Journal articles via UBC Library or browse some of the most recent papers here:

From the environmental impacts of healthcare services, the ways health is tied to social and ecological determinants of health, and the ways that human health is inextricably linked to the health of other species, land, water, and air, climate change is integral to research in the health and medicine fields.

Healthcare's impact: "In Canada, the healthcare industry is responsible for more than four and a half per cent of greenhouse gas emissions - equivalent to the aviation industry." UBC Planetary Healthcare Lab

Planetary health: "Planetary health is an emerging and multidisciplinary field that is informed by environmental health, ecosystem approaches to health, built environment, planning, earth sciences, agriculture and many other fields." SFU Planetary Health

One health: "One Health is an approach that recognizes that the health of people is closely connected to the health of animals and our shared environment. One Health is not new, but it has become more important in recent years. This is because many factors have changed interactions between people, animals, plants, and our environment."  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Interactive GIS data of major sources of air pollution and their impacts around the world. https://costofairpollution.shinyapps.io/gbd_map_global_source_shinyapp/

The Global Burden of Disease-Major Air Pollution Sources (GBD-MAPS) – Global project, funded by the Health Effects Institute, is a joint collaboration led by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, the University of British Columbia, the University of Washington.