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Envisioning planetary health in every medical curriculum: An international medical student organization's perspective.

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In this article, future health care professionals must be trained to recognize the interdependence of health and ecosystems to address the needs of the future health and environment to improve the health of humans.
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With deteriorating ecosystems, the health of mankind is at risk. Future health care professionals must be trained to recognize the interdependence of health and ecosystems to address the needs of t...

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AMEE Consensus Statement: Planetary health and education for sustainable healthcare

TL;DR: The Consensus Statement as mentioned in this paper provides a global, collaborative, representative and inclusive vision for educating an interprofessional healthcare workforce that can deliver sustainably and sustainably care for the patients.
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A pathway to net zero emissions for healthcare

TL;DR: Renee N Salas and colleagues chart a path to net zero emissions for healthcare to limit the widespread health harms of climate change.
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Net zero healthcare: a call for clinician action

TL;DR: Health professionals are well positioned to effect change by reshaping individual practice, influencing healthcare organisations, and setting clinical standards, argue Jodi Sherman and colleagues as mentioned in this paper, and they are well suited to influence healthcare organisations.
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Education for sustainable healthcare: Leadership to get from here to there.

TL;DR: The need for strong leadership to enact a vision for ESH is outlined here with the intent to enable and nurture the conditions for change, ultimately improving health and well-being across generations.
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Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify three categories of challenges that have to be addressed to maintain and enhance human health in the face of increasingly harmful environmental trends: conceptual and empathy failures (imagination challenges), such as an overreliance on gross domestic product as a measure of human progress, the failure to account for future health and environmental harms over present day gains, and the disproportionate eff ect of those harms on the poor and those in developing nations.
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Transformative Learning as Discourse

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an elaboration of the epistemology of transformative learning in adult education, and examine the nature of reasoning within the context of critical-dialectical discourse.
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It's Time for Medical Schools to Introduce Climate Change Into Their Curricula.

TL;DR: The authors describe the rationale for inclusion of climate change in medical education and some potential pathways for incorporating this broad topic into physician training and continuing medical education.
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Global Environmental Change and Noncommunicable Disease Risks

TL;DR: An overview of pathways linking GEC and NCDs is provided, focusing on five pathways: energy, air pollution, and climate change; ( b) urbanization; ( c) food, nutrition, and agriculture; ( d) the deposition of persistent chemicals in the environment; and ( e) biodiversity loss.
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