People and Planet Health : The Role of Healthcare Professionals in Climate Action

Our health and the health of our planet are connected, from simple things such as the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat, to more complex systems including exposure to infectious diseases and extreme weather events.

Find out more about the interlink between people and planet health in the first episode of our mini-series which looks at some of the steps that can help accelerate progress towards a more sustainable future.

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*This is a certified net zero production. This means that throughout the entire filmmaking process, we've taken steps to minimise our carbon footprint, and have offset any emissions produced.

[OldScientist]

"As regards disease, the Lancet's Countdown on Health and Climate Change (2019) shows Climate-related deaths are a small proportion of all-cause fatalities (1990–2017). That is based on data per IHME (2019), and between 1990 and 2017, the cumulative age-standardized death rate (ASDRs) from climate-sensitive diseases and events (CSDEs) dropped from 8.1% of the all-cause ASDR to 5.5%, while the age-standardized burden of disease, measured by disability-adjusted life years lost (DALYs) declined from 12.0% to 8.0% of all-cause age-standardized DALYs. Thus, the burdens of death and disease from CSDEs are small, and getting smaller.
However, the declines in death and disease rates from CSDEs since 1990 are only a small proportion of longer-term declines across the globe. In the USA, one of the few places with good long-term data, death rates from dysentery, typhoid, paratyphoid, other gastrointestinal diseases, and malaria – all water-related diseases and therefore, almost by definition, climate-sensitive declined 99–100% between 1900 and 1970.
We are solving our problems with CSDEs faster than we are solving our other health problems."
Indur M. Goklany