Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60901-1

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Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health

Sarah Whitmee, +22 more

- 14 Nov 2015 -

The Lancet

- Vol. 386, Iss: 10007, pp 1973-2028

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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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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2015-11-14. It has received 1452 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health policy & Social determinants of health.

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The Lancet

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