Planetary Health
Planetary Health ( German about "planetary health") describes the health of human civilization and the surrounding environment , on which it depends. The concept was established by the Rockefeller Foundation and The Lancet as the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on Planetary Health.
It is complementary to the concepts of environmental health , ecohealth, onehealth, international health and global health . In contrast to global health, planetary health is broader and also includes the state of health of the entire ecosystem.
history
The concept goes back to the doctor and professor of general medicine Per Fugelli , who wrote in 1993: “The patient earth is sick. Global environmental problems can have serious consequences for human health. It is time for doctors to diagnose the world and come up with a therapeutic proposal ”. Under the leadership of Johan Rockström , the concept of Planetary Boundaries was proposed independently of Fugelli in 2009 . Mankind can only develop and prosper in the centuries to come if its activities do not exceed the limits specified there. As of 2015, four of these limits - climate change , integrity of the biosphere , biochemical material flow and change in land use - had already been exceeded.
In March 2014, a comment in the medical journal The Lancet published the call for a reform of the public health system. So far, this has focused on human health without considering the ecosystem that surrounds them . The concept of the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on Planetary Health was launched in 2015. Planetary Health is the basis of the Planetary Health Alliance , founded in the same year , a worldwide association of 95 universities, NGOs, government agencies and research institutes.
description
The Lancet Commission's report defined the overarching principles of the Planetary Health concept . Human health depends on well-functioning ecosystems and human activities to keep these ecosystems in good condition. The damage to air, water and soil, combined with a significant loss of biodiversity, have a substantial negative impact on health. These include a loss of food security, loss of water availability, increased exposure to communicable and non-communicable diseases, and more deaths from extreme weather events.
In particular, the production of energy and food have had such a profound and lasting negative impact on the overall condition of the planet that geologists are now speaking of a transition from the Holocene to the Anthropocene , as the changes that have been initiated affect geological timescales and will still be detectable in millions of years. Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin declared Planetary Health to be a new discipline related to global health. With their help, the dependence of humans on the well-being of the surrounding environment should be pointed out. With the help of training courses and partnerships on a national and international level, awareness of these problems is to be raised among all those involved, so that legislators can adapt their requirements and regulations in order to achieve a better balance between progress and damage to the environment.
Web links
- Planetary Health overview at the Rockefeller Foundation Planetary Health
- The Lancet Planetary Health Website of the online journal of the same name
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jeffrey P Koplan, T Christopher Bond, Michael H Merson, K Srinath Reddy, Mario Henry Rodriguez, Nelson K Sewankambo, Judith N Wasserheit: Towards a common definition of global health . In: The Lancet . 373, No. 9679, 2009. doi : 10.1016 / s0140-6736 (09) 60332-9 .
- ↑ Planetary Health - Economist Intelligence Unit Archived from the original on September 3, 2019. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: The Economist . June 25, 2014, p. 28. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
- ↑ Barbara Casassus: Per Fugelli. In: The Lancet . 390, 2017, p. 2032, doi: 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (17) 32737-X .
- ^ Johan Rockström: A safe operating space for humanity . In: Nature . 461, September 4, 2009, pp. 472-475. doi : 10.1038 / 461472a .
- ^ W. Steffen : Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet . In: Science . 347, February 13, 2015. doi : 10.1126 / science.1259855 .
- ^ Richard Horton, Robert Beaglehole, Ruth Bonita, John Raeburn, Martin McKee : From public to planetary health: a manifesto . In: The Lancet . 383, No. 9920, March 6, 2014. doi : 10.1016 / s0140-6736 (14) 60409-8 .
- ^ Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on planetary health . In: The Lancet . November 14, 2015. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
- ^ Planetary Health Alliance . Archived from the original on June 4, 2018. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
- ^ Judith Rodin: Planetary Health: A New Discipline in Global Health .
- ↑ [ https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/our-work/initiatives/planetary-health/ Planetary Health - Safeguarding both human health and the natural systems that underpin it] .
