Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency

Authors

Kamran Abbasi, Editor-in-Chief, BMJ
Parveen Ali, Editor-in-Chief, International Nursing Review
Virginia Barbour, Editor-in-Chief, Medical Journal of Australia
Thomas Thomas, Editor-in-Chief, Danish Medical Journal
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Editor-in-Chief, JAMA
Stephen Hancocks, Editor-in-Chief, British Dental Journal
Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet
Laurie Laybourn-Langton, University of Exeter
Robert Mash, Editor-in-Chief, African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
Peush Sahni, Editor-in-Chief, National Medical Journal of India
Wadeia Mohammad Sharief, Editor-in-Chief, Dubai Medical Journal
Paul Yonga, Editor-in-Chief, East African Medical Journal
Chris Zielinski, University of Winchester.

Abstract

Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible crisis and must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe. This overall environmental crisis is now so severe as to be a global health emergency.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.25176/RFMH.v23i3.6045

Recommended Citation

Abbasi, Kamran; Ali, Parveen; Barbour, Virginia; Thomas, Thomas; Bibbins-Domingo, Kirsten; Hancocks, Stephen; Horton, Richard; Laybourn-Langton, Laurie; Mash, Robert; Sahni, Peush; Mohammad Sharief, Wadeia; Yonga, Paul; and Zielinski, Chris (2023) "Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency," Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana: Vol. 23: Iss. 3, Article 1.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25176/RFMH.v23i3.6045
Available at: https://inicib.urp.edu.pe/rfmh/vol23/iss3/1