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ClearPlanetary Health: Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene
This book on Planetary Health framed environmental degradation as a direct threat to human health across domains from pandemics to chronic disease to mental health, arguing that transformative changes in energy, food, housing, and transport systems are needed to simultaneously improve health outcomes and protect the natural systems on which human civilization depends.
The climate crisis in clinical practice: Addressing air pollution, heat, and microplastics
This review examines how climate change-driven environmental threats including air pollution, extreme heat, and microplastics are already affecting patients in clinical settings. Researchers found that these exposures disproportionately harm vulnerable populations and that physicians need to be equipped to recognize and address the health effects of environmental degradation. The study argues that healthcare professionals have a critical role to play in both treating affected patients and advocating for policies that reduce fossil fuel-related pollution.
Health Psychology and Climate Change: Time to address humanity’s most existential crisis
This paper argues that health psychology must urgently address climate change as humanity's most existential health crisis, highlighting how greenhouse gas emissions drive extreme weather, displacement, food insecurity, and disease disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations.
Ecological transition and health: the role of physicians and healthcare
This perspective article examines the role of physicians and healthcare workers in addressing climate change and pollution as major public health threats, including microplastics, PFAS, and fine particulate matter. It argues that the medical community must move beyond disease treatment to advocate for reduced fossil fuel use and sustainable healthcare policies.
When I say …. Planetary Health
This commentary explores the concept of planetary health, which examines the connections between human civilization and the natural systems on which it depends. The author argues for a shared understanding of the term to advance research and action on environmental and health challenges. The piece emphasizes the urgency of addressing threats like pollution and ecosystem degradation that affect both the planet and human well-being.
Medical Geology: An Interdisciplinary Approach Intended to Unfold the Issues of Natural Environment on Public Health
This review introduces medical geology as an interdisciplinary field studying how natural and anthropogenic environmental materials — including microplastics and trace elements — affect public health, integrating geoscience with epidemiology to better understand exposure pathways and disease risk.
A Practical Guide for Physicians and Health Care Workers to Reduce Their Carbon Footprint in Daily Clinical Work
This commentary provides practical strategies for physicians and healthcare workers to reduce their individual carbon footprints in daily clinical practice, framing medical professionals as having a privileged duty to protect planetary health. The authors highlight that many carbon-reduction measures in clinical settings also carry direct health co-benefits.
Establishing a community for planetary health in the Philippines
This commentary describes efforts to establish a planetary health research community in the Philippines, framing the COVID-19 pandemic and climate crisis as reinforcing the need for integrated approaches to the human health-environment relationship.
A planetary vision for one health
This planetary health perspective synthesized findings from the 2015 Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission report on human health in the Anthropocene, identifying climate change, deforestation, ocean acidification, zoonotic disease, biodiversity loss, and air pollution as interconnected threats to human wellbeing. The authors call for immediate, evidence-based cross-disciplinary policy responses to address planetary boundaries that underpin human health.
Environmental sustainability special issue of Nursing in Critical Care
This editorial highlights the connection between planetary health and healthcare, focusing on how environmental threats like climate change, pollution, and microplastics affect both patient well-being and the healthcare system's own environmental footprint. The author argues that critical care nurses and healthcare professionals have a responsibility to address environmental sustainability in their practice. The piece calls for greater awareness and action within the nursing profession to promote both human and planetary health.
Integrating climate and environmental justice into patient care: A case study
This case study describes a clinical approach to integrating environmental justice and climate change considerations into patient care, highlighting how environmental exposures including microplastics relate to health inequities.
Die Bedeutung der Konzepte One Health und Planetary Health für die Umweltmedizin im 21. Jahrhundert
This review examined how One Health and Planetary Health frameworks are essential for 21st-century environmental medicine, emphasizing the interconnected threats from chemical pollutants, microplastics, and climate change to both human and ecosystem health.
Communicating the health of the planet and its links to human health
This commentary discussed how to more effectively communicate links between planetary health indicators -- including ocean pollution and microplastics -- and human health outcomes to policymakers and the public.
A cross-sectional study on the knowledge of and interest in Planetary Health in health-related study programmes in Germany
A cross-sectional survey of 1,303 students enrolled in health-related programs in Bavaria, Germany found moderate knowledge and high interest in Planetary Health topics. Students recognized connections between environmental health and human health but reported that Planetary Health content was poorly integrated into their university curricula.
Bridging disciplines-key to success when implementing planetary health in medical training curricula
This review examines the challenges of incorporating planetary health topics, including pollution and environmental contamination, into medical school curricula. Researchers found that a major obstacle is attempting to teach these complex interdisciplinary subjects without involving experts from environmental and natural sciences. The study argues that true cross-disciplinary collaboration is essential for training future doctors to understand the health impacts of environmental issues like microplastic pollution.
Environmentally sustainable critical care: Special issue introduction
This editorial introduces a special issue on environmentally sustainable critical care, highlighting the healthcare sector's significant contribution to climate change, air pollution, and waste generation. The authors discuss how the triple planetary crisis of environmental degradation is both worsened by and harmful to healthcare delivery. The piece calls for urgent action to reduce the environmental footprint of medical care, including addressing single-use plastics and waste management.
Planetary health action framework: A case study
This case study applied a patient-centered planetary health care framework to a primary care clinical case, using eight analytical lenses including actor-network theory and evidence-based medicine to integrate individual health with environmental sustainability. The paper presents planetary health action as feasible at the community clinical level through structured reflective practice.
Planetary health and non-communicable diseases—A converging global crisis
This review examines the convergence of environmental degradation and the global rise in non-communicable diseases, identifying microplastics as one of several environmental pollutants contributing to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory conditions. The authors argue that addressing plastic pollution is integral to a planetary health approach to disease prevention.
Exploring educators’ perception of issues involving Planetary Health: A qualitative study in the Brazilian Amazon
Researchers investigated how teachers in a riverside Brazilian Amazon school perceive planetary health issues, finding that while educators recognized environmental connections to community wellbeing, formal planetary health education remains largely absent from basic school curricula.
Climate Change, Environment, and One Health
This review discusses how climate change drives biodiversity loss, air and water pollution, and the spread of microplastics, collectively increasing the burden of non-communicable diseases and putting pressure on healthcare systems, especially in lower-income countries.
The age of anthropogenic disease
This commentary examines how the Anthropocene — the era of dominant human impact on Earth — is generating novel disease patterns, with climate change altering the geography of infectious disease, increasing cardiovascular mortality from temperature extremes, and reshaping how people live and age.
Climate Change and Adverse Public Health Impacts on Human Health and Water Resources
This review examines how climate change is creating interconnected threats to public health and freshwater resources worldwide. Researchers found that rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and extreme weather events are degrading water quality through increased contamination from pollutants including microplastics. The study highlights the urgent need for integrated strategies that address water management, pollution control, and public health simultaneously.
Climate Change, Exposome Change, and Allergy
Researchers review how climate change amplifies exposure to allergens and co-stressors including air pollution, temperature extremes, and nutritional shifts, finding that these intersecting exposome changes disproportionately worsen allergic respiratory diseases in vulnerable populations.
What is planetary health? Addressing the environment-health nexus in Southeast Asia in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals: opportunities for International Relations scholars
This policy paper calls for better integration of environmental conservation and human health goals in Southeast Asia, using the concept of planetary health. It argues that clean environments—free of pollutants like microplastics—are essential for human well-being, especially for communities dependent on natural resources.