Background: With reference to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD), a fundamental change in psychiatric care in Germany was proposed in 2019 by Zinkler and von Peter, supported by a legal perspective from Kammeier, which has since led to controversial debates. Essentially, the aim is not only to reduce coercion in psychiatry to a minimum, but also to fundamentally exclude it in a psychiatry that only provides care. The function as an agent of social control is to be returned from psychiatry to state institutions.
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November 2022
Background: Exceeding ecological limits through climate crisis, loss of biodiversity, altered biogeochemical cycles and novel substances is dangerous and leads to increased morbidity. Hence, financial assets should be divested from hazardous industries and re-allocated to support the transformation to an economy that keeps activities within ecological limits. The present study investigates how sustainability criteria are applied to the assets of German pension funds.
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May 2019
Since the early 1990s, science has addressed anthropogenic climate change as a health issue. From about 2000 onwards, the scientific literature and evidence on the health effects of climate change has been rapidly increasing. Global warming is now considered an "existential threat to humankind," and leading health organizations call climate change "the defining issue for public health in the 21 century" or a "public health emergency.
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