Planetary health is a significant and relatively new field of #scholarship that takes the political determinants of #health seriously.
#Planetaryhealth emphasizes that human health and the health of the #ecosystems are intertwined and interdependent.
There is no human health without ecosystem health and no ecosystem health without #democracy.
Connecting and #queering #medicaleducation, ecology, and ecofeminism, allow for rethinking health as #planetaryhealth, beyond the humans versus nature binary.
#Queer ecology roots for multi-species #environmentaljustice, multi-species ecosolidarities, and #systemsthinking instead of hegemonic and extractive binaries.
For example, these freshwater algae live in peace in ecosolidarity with other life in this #LakeOntario watershed.
Eine Analyse von #Speiseplänen deutscher #Krankenhäuser und #Pflegeheime zeigt, dass die #Verpflegung zu wenig pflanzliche #Lebensmittel und zu viele ungesunde Zutaten enthält.
Laut Potsdam-Institut für #Klimafolgenforschung (#PIK) und Partnern fehlen wichtige Nährstoffe wie #Folsäure und #Kalium. Die Ernährung belastet sowohl die #Gesundheit als auch das #Klima.
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/studie-klinikkost-ist-ungesund-und-klimaschaedlich-li.3289125
The future of our planet depends on the choices we make today. Every decision to embrace sustainability, community cooperation, and regenerative practices creates ripple effects that shape tomorrow's world for generations to come.
https://onecommunityglobal.org/
Canadian Wildfires & Saharan dust – a complex mixture of aerosols over Europe in recent days. Aerosol Optical Depth Forecast for organic matter and dust, update 2025-06-13. Impressive new animation by the scientists @CopernicusEU
Explaining corresponding article: https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/new-cams-video-shows-intense-dust-and-smoke-activity-over-europe
"Extreme heat impacts on daily life and adaptive behaviours captured through lived experience" (UK, N > 3200)
Worst impacts
- sleep (41%)
- productivity at home (41%)
- appetite (29%)
Health-health alerts
- 82% aware BUT 34% adopted adaptive measures
New paper on possible #ClimateChange deaths in #Chile:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2025.101151
"Estimating the effects of temperature on #mortality and #hospitalisations under RCP2.6 and RCP8.5 scenarios in the short- and long-term by region in Chile: a population-based, modelling study".
#ClimateHealth #HealthClimate #Health #GlobalHealth #Climate #CCA #Adaptation #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateChangeAdaptation #PublicHealth #PlanetaryHealth #OneHealth #EcoHealth
Podcasts lieben wir! Und freuen uns deshalb sehr über das neue Format "Zukunft gestalten - Der #Podcast über #PlanetaryHealth". Immer 2-wöchentlich donnerstags gibt es eine neue Folge. Wunderbar! 
In Episode 3 kommen u.a. Gäste vom #KongressAuG2025 zu Wort: https://planetary-health-academy.de/podcasts.
You’ve Heard of the Mediterranean Diet. Meet Its Climate-Conscious Cousin https://www.diningandcooking.com/2102143/youve-heard-of-the-mediterranean-diet-meet-its-climate-conscious-cousin-2/ #Mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanVeganDiet #MediterraneanVegetarianRecipes #PlanetaryHealth #PlanetaryHealthDiet #VeganMediterraneanDiet #VegetarianMediterraneanRecipes
#NewStudy in @thelancet #PlanetaryHealth by Wan, Gampe & Hajat, investigating an often-underrepresented factor in #ClimateHealth research: 𝗮𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘀 - tiny particles in the atmosphere that reflect sunlight & may have a net cooling effect 
-𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀: 
Aerosol-driven cooling masked hundreds of heat-related deaths in the 20th century Mid-range emissions scenario: heat-related deaths could rise 2–6× by 2100.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542519625000506
Without acknowledgement/facing off the class struggle in science, technology & medicine, and the attendant historical, colonial, structural and gendered injustices whose legacies continue today, achieving a democratic, just and egalitarian science, healthcare, medicine, and innovation is not possible.
Health, wellbeing, illness, class struggle, and political determinants of health, the causes-of-causes..
"There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in."
- Desmond Tutu
Damit #Landwirtschaft planetare Grenzen einhalten kann, müssen sich die Ernährungsmuster drastisch ändern. Doch warum ist das so schwer? Und wie kommen wir von immer neuen Vorschlägen und Kommissionspapieren zu einer gelingenden #Ernährungswende?
Mit diesen Fragen beschäftigt sich die neue Ausgabe von Ökologie & Landbau und ihrem Themenschwerpunkt »Die Zukunft der Ernährung«.
https://www.oekom.de/ausgabe/die-zukunft-der-ernaehrung-83057
#ernährung #ernährungsrat #tierwohl #ökolandbau #biolandbau
#planetaryhealth
How much does climate change really cost our health?
In many African regions, the answer is already becoming clear: rising temperatures, shrinking water sources, food insecurity, and the spread of diseases like malaria are putting intense pressure on health systems. These aren’t separate problems—they’re all deeply connected.
In our new article (with Walter Leal, Gouvidé Jean GBAGUIDI, Wassa Diarrassouba), we explored how climate change is driving up health costs across Africa. Using spatio-temporal mapping and a broad review of the literature, we show how these impacts are growing over time and space—and why it’s urgent to act now.
https://pimmartens.com/2025/03/27/how-much-does-climate-change-really-cost-our-health/
New paper:
"COVID-19 impacts on emergency responder resilience in Bergen and London"
https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12683
#coronavirus #covid19 #covid2019 #covid #covid_19 #covidー19 #covid19outbreak #Covid19pandemic
#disaster #disasters #DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters #NaturalDisasters #NaturalDisaster #Health #GlobalHealth #PlanetaryHealth #epidemic #pandemic #disease #outbreak
I'm very proud of my spouse who has been working on this: https://www.casn.ca/2022/08/introduction-to-the-planetary-health-education-framework-phef/
#planetaryhealth
@ChariteBerlin und das Startup HospiChef in #DBUprojekt|en pushen Projekt für gesunde Ernährung in Kliniken & Heimen. Großes Thema #PlanetaryHealth! #DBU-Chef @alexbonde: „Vorteile für Mensch und Natur“. Mehr hier: https://www.dbu.de/news/tag-der-gesunden-ernaehrung-oekologisch-essen-in-krankenhaeusern/
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/03/06/tag-der-gesunden-ernaehrung-oekologisch-essen-in-krankenhaeusern
Change doesn’t need to be loud to be powerful.
This week’s reflection explores how the Gaian Way has grown—not with noise, but with deep-rooted, intentional action.
https://gaianway.org/the-quiet-revolution-thats-occurred-at-the-gaian-way/
#ClimateAction #Planetaryhealth
"Health co-benefits of climate mitigation policies are expected to manifest in the short term, are not conditioned to global coordinated climate action, and can outweigh the costs of mitigation policies, highlighting how health co-benefits can drive impactful mitigation action."
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(24)00330-9/fulltext
