1. Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency.
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Abbasi, Kamran, Ali, Parveen, Barbour, Virginia, Benfield, Thomas, Bibbins-Domingo, Kirsten, Erhabor, Gregory E., Hancocks, Stephen, Horton, Richard, Laybourn-Langton, Laurie, Mash, Robert, Sahni, Peush, Mohammad Sharief, Wadeia, Yonga, Paul, and Zielinski, Chris
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ENVIRONMENTAL health ,SERIAL publications ,AIR pollution ,GREENHOUSE effect ,CONSERVATION of natural resources ,HEALTH status indicators ,CLIMATE change ,ECOSYSTEMS ,WORLD health ,MEDICAL emergencies ,WATER pollution ,EPIDEMICS ,HEALTH equity ,NATURAL disasters - Abstract
An editorial emphasizes the urgent need to treat the climate crisis and biodiversity loss as a single, intertwined global health emergency. It argues that addressing climate change and nature loss separately is a critical error, given their profound and interconnected impacts on health and ecosystems. It call for a unified approach in global policies and health strategies to tackle both crises simultaneously.
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- 2024
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