Background: Education is urgently needed to equip medical students with knowledge, values and skills to promote planetary health. However, the current literature offers little insight into evidence-based approaches and best practices. In response to this pressing need, a novel serious game was introduced into the medical curriculum at Erasmus Medical Center in 2023.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF: Climate change is predicted to be our century's most significant health threat. In 2021, 46 countries committed to environmentally sustainable low carbon health care systems. Of those, 34 were from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To identify evidence-based interventions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in health-care systems in low- and middle-income countries and explore potential synergies from these interventions that aid climate change adaptation while mitigating emissions.
Methods: We systematically searched 11 electronic databases for articles published between 1990 and March 2023. We assessed risk of bias in each article and graded the quality of evidence across interventions in health-care operations, energy and supply chains.
Healthcare professionals have a responsibility to protect and promote human health, and thus also have a responsibility to protect ecosystems and to promote Planetary Health. Planetary Health arose recently in medical education and is growing exponentially. Planetary Health in medical education should entail three key themes: (a) Understanding of the complex relationship between humankind and nature - the core of Planetary Health.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClimate change forms an urgent health threat and gains attention in global medical literature as well as in Dutch healthcare. Climate change, however, is still absent in medical education. Health professionals must acquire knowledge concerning the health effects of climate change and train the values, skills, capacities, and motivation necessary to contribute to climate adaptation and mitigation.
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