1. Avoiding catastrophes: seeking synergies among the public health, environmental protection, and human security sectors
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Jason W. Nickerson, Florian Krampe, Marieme Lo, Zaryab Iqbal, Cristina Romanelli, Andrew Price-Smith, Ronald Behringer, Ashok Swain, Peter Daszak, Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, Adnan Raja, Simon Dalby, Peter Stoett, Kyle Matthews, Anne Hélène Prieur-Richard, Catherine Machalaba, Keith Martin, Frank Chalk, Stephen Cornish, David Secko, Tom Koch, Adan Suazo, and James Orbinski
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Globalisation Studies ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Economic growth ,Conservation of Natural Resources ,Political Science ,Global Health ,01 natural sciences ,Security Measures ,Disease Outbreaks ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,and human security sectors ,medicine ,Global health ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Sociology ,0101 mathematics ,Social disruption ,Globaliseringsstudier ,Human security ,Collapse (medical) ,environmental protection ,Poverty ,Public health ,lcsh:Public aspects of medicine ,Statsvetenskap ,010102 general mathematics ,public health ,Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap ,lcsh:RA1-1270 ,Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology ,General Medicine ,Congresses as Topic ,Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi ,Public Health ,medicine.symptom ,Earth and Related Environmental Sciences - Abstract
Global health catastrophes have complex origins, often rooted in social disruption, poverty, conflict, and environmental collapse. Avoiding them will require a new integrative analysis of the links between disease, armed conflict, and environmental degradation within a socioecological vulnerability and human security context. Exploring these connections was the aim of Avoiding Catastrophe: Linking Armed Conflict, Harm to Ecosystems, and Public Health, an expert workshop held in May 4–6, 2016, at Concordia University in Montreal, QC, Canada.
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