Royal Australasian College of Physicians Position Papers on Climate Change and Health

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) has released three new Climate Change and Health Position Statements, promoting policies to deliver the health benefits of climate action.

November, 2016

Helping healthcare professionals think through health and climate change impacts

This clearly laid out, first level, detailing of the health effects of climate change makes an excellent learning resource or handout. Living with Environmental Change can be contacted for hard copies while stocks last.

September, 2016

Video Duty to Protect Health (PLO 3)

Video about health harm associated with environmental degradation

https://donoharmstory.org/

September, 2016

Lancet Commission video on climate change and health (3 mins)

The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change maps out the impacts of climate change, and the necessary policy responses, to ensure the highest attainable standards of health for populations worldwide.

The Lancet

May, 2015

WHO Conference on Health and Climate

Submitted 5 years 11 months ago by Ingeborg Steinbach.

Tuesday 26th August 2014

Since 2008 the WHO has shown leadership in raising awareness of the threats posed by climate change to health. There is now an urgent need to advance a more concrete and systematic approach to implementing health protection, led by the health community, in coordination with others.

The two main topics to be discussed at the conference are:

Strengthening health system resilience to climate risks
Promoting health while mitigating climate change

Sustainable Healthcare Made Simple

This fifty-slide set makes the connection between climate, health, social responsibility and the NHS. it covers policy, carbon levels and provides information on the steps that need to be taken and the tools that may be used.

Maria Cooke, Sustainability fellow at the East of England Local Education and Training Board

January, 2014

Case studies of teaching on climate & sustainable healthcare in medical schools 2011-12

This document has a set of case studies from UK medical schools that have been trying out ways of teaching medical students about the links between climate, sustainability and health. Most of the ones included are SSCs (student-selected components) apart from Liverpool, which has integrated

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

March, 2013

Sustainability and Health Symposium

Submitted 7 years 5 months ago by Heather Baid.

Wednesday 6th March 2013

The School of Nursing & Midwifery’s Sustainability Group at the University of Brighton are hosting an event to explore sustainability issues related to health and health care practice.

Sustainability and Health Symposium

Submitted 7 years 5 months ago by Heather Baid.

Wednesday 6th March 2013

The School of Nursing & Midwifery’s Sustainability Group at the University of Brighton are hosting an event to explore sustainability issues related to health and health care practice.

Webinar: Environment and Health

Submitted 7 years 8 months ago by Ingeborg Steinbach.

Friday 30th November 2012

The Ecosystems Knowledge Network is holding a free webinar on incorporating public health goals into local land management. It will feature three projects that have been working to improve delivery of public health benefits from outdoor natural spaces.

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