Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible Global Health Emergency

Kamran Abbasi; Parveen Ali; Virginia Barbour; Thomas Benfield; Kirsten Bibbins-domingo; Stephen Hancocks; Richard Horton; Laurie Laybourn-langton; Robert Mash; Peush Sahni; Wadeia Mohammad Sharief; Paul Yonga; Chris Zielinsk

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Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible Global Health Emergency

Author: Kamran Abbasi ¹ ; Parveen Ali ² ; Virginia Barbour ³ ; Thomas Benfield ⁴ ; Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo ⁵ ; Stephen Hancocks ⁶ ; Richard Horton ⁷ ; Laurie Laybourn-Langton ⁸ ; Robert Mash ⁹ ; Peush Sahni ¹⁰ ; Wadeia Mohammad Sharief ¹¹ ; Paul Yonga ¹² ; Chris Zielinsk ¹³
Author Information

1. Editor-in-Chief, BMJ
2. Editor-in-Chief, International Nursing Review
3. Editor-in-Chief, Medical Journal of Australia
4. Editor-in-Chief, Danish Medical Journal
5. Editor-in-Chief, JAMA
6. Editor-in-Chief, British Dental Journal
7. Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet
8. University of Exeter
9. Editor-in-Chief, African Journal of Primary Health Care and Family Medicine
10. Editor-in-Chief, National Medical Journal of India
11. Editor-in-Chief, Dubai Medical Journal
12. Editor-in-Chief, East African Medical Journal
13. University of Winchester
Publication Type:Editorial
Keywords: Nuclear power; Nature crisis; Planetary health
MeSH: Armed Conflicts; Nuclear Energy; Radiation; Climate Change; Global Warming
From: Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery 2023;38(2):6-8
CountryPhilippines
Language:English
Abstract: Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible crisis and must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe. This overall environmental crisis is now so severe as to be a global health emergency.
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