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"Mitigation and Health Improvement" Slide Pack (Mar 09)
by Frances Mortimer | Fri, 23/01/2009 - 12:06
Carbon Addict
by Frances Mortimer | Tue, 02/12/2008 - 07:49Published by:
The Climate Connection & The Campaign for Greener Healthcare
Publication date:
2 Dec 2008
Resource type:
evidence base / teaching tool
Brief description:
The fabulous new online guide to medical management of "Carbon Dependence Syndrome".
Do your patients report lengthy showers, meat bingeing and/or compulsive purchase of consumer goods? Asthma? Mental distress? Diabetes? Problem use of carbon-based fuels is now recognised as a disabling medical syndrome.
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Adaptation Tools, Reports & Guides (SWCCIP)
by Frances Mortimer | Wed, 15/04/2009 - 11:28Published by:
South West Climate Change Impacts Partnership
Publication date:
1 Jan 2008
Resource type:
web directory
Brief description:
An excellent range of adaptation tools, reports and guides produced or recommended by SWCCIP on their website, sorted by sector into: Agriculture and Forestry, Biodiversity, Business and Utilities, Health, Housing and Construction, Local Government, Tourism, Transport.
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Well-being and Sustainable Development
by Frances Mortimer | Tue, 07/04/2009 - 09:09Health and Wealth in the 21st Century
A public health debate which began at the UKPHA 17th Annual Forum in March 2009.
At the UK Public Health Association's 17th Annual Forum on 26 March 2009, the UKPHA Health and Sustainable Development Action Group hosted a workshop "Health and Wealth in the 21st Century - what role will public health play?"
A sustainable community?
How will we create communities with a focus on people - their contentment, wellbeing, resilience and fulfilment? Will it be possible within current economic systems and the impacts of climate change? What role should public health play? Speakers William Bird (Natural England), Anna Coote (New Economics Foundation) and Jonathan Harris (DH East Mids) kicked off discussion. As a society, can we shift our measures of success from those of economic growth and life expectancy to the more complex but important wellbeing? And how do we measure this?
This connection has been set up to share insights from the workshop and to invite continuing debate on this important area of policy development - please visit the opinion and discussion pages, and give your views!
Carbon Dependency damages your health!!
by Frances Mortimer | Fri, 20/03/2009 - 15:49
Delegates at the UK Public Health Association’s 17th Annual Public Health Forum will be offered 'screening' for the debilitating Carbon Dependence Syndrome in Brighton next week.
using recession to improve public health
by lindleyowen | Wed, 11/03/2009 - 14:11
The NHS is coming to the end of a decade of above-inflation growth, and faces resource restrictions in the near future. In previous recessions, acute services have been relatively sheltered, while community, primary and support services have borne the brunt of economies. This recession is the first to occur at a time when climate science is clear, and incontrovertible. This aspect offers a way of turning inevitable economic stringency to health advantage.
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