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ClearDie 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.
Aligning Ocean Plastic Pollution and Human Health a Co-benefits Approach
This paper proposes a co-benefits approach to aligning ocean plastic pollution policy with human health outcomes, arguing that reducing plastic in the environment would simultaneously benefit marine ecosystems and human wellbeing. It calls for stronger integration of environmental and health frameworks in policy decisions.
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.
Infection prevention and control programme priorities for sustainable health and environmental systems
Researchers highlight a paradox in healthcare: infection prevention programs that protect patients and workers from disease also generate significant plastic waste and environmental harm. Addressing this trade-off is essential for building health systems that are both safe and truly sustainable.
Introducing Health-Climate-Economics and Rapid Viability Test for Candidate Solutions as a Tool for Automated Healthcare Procurement and Evaluation
This paper introduces a health-climate-economics framework for evaluating healthcare procurement decisions that account for climate and health co-benefits. It is not related to microplastics.
Una possibile connessione fra educazione alla salute ed educazione ambientale nel contesto dell’Enciclica Laudato si’
This Italian paper explores connections between health education and environmental education through the lens of the Laudato si' papal encyclical on ecology. The work discusses hospital sustainability and how environmental health — including plastic pollution — is intertwined with human wellbeing.
Plastic particles in medicine: A systematic review of exposure and effects to human health
Medical plastics including bags, containers, and administration sets release micro- and nanoplastics along with chemical additives that can interact with pharmaceutical constituents, creating an understudied route of direct human exposure. Both primary exposure (during medical treatment) and secondary environmental exposure (from hospital plastic waste disposal) represent potential health hazards.
Evaluating the Environmental and Health Impacts of Disposable Plastics: Toward Sustainable Material Alternatives
This review examined the environmental and health impacts of disposable plastics and explored sustainable alternatives, drawing on secondary literature across environmental science and health disciplines. The paper assessed plastic waste contributions to ocean pollution and proposed strategies to mitigate these challenges.
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.
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.
Second Life Plastic Project: Using a One Health Lens to Address Plastic Bottle Pollution
Not relevant to microplastics — this paper proposes a One Health initiative to collect and 3D-print plastic bottles into furniture as a community-scale plastic pollution reduction strategy, without investigating microplastic contamination or health effects.
Innovative One-Health Assessment of Microplastic Exposure in Healthcare Workers: Quantifying Risk across Occupational, Environmental, and Dietary Pathways
This One-Health study assessed microplastic exposure in healthcare workers, measuring plastic particles in occupational environments and biological samples to evaluate workplace-specific exposure routes and potential health implications.
One Health in allergology: A concept that connects humans, animals, plants, and the environment
This review applies the One Health framework to allergology, arguing that the increasing prevalence of allergic diseases reflects interconnections between human, animal, and environmental health, with environmental contaminants including microplastics among the discussed contributing factors.
Top 5 Things Health Professions Students Should Know About Ecology and Waste Management
This article outlines five key concepts about ecology and waste management that health professions students should understand, using a One Health approach to planetary environmental health. The study emphasizes that waste stream management, including plastic waste, directly affects disease transmission risks and community health outcomes.
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.
Environmental Impact of Plastic Waste: Strategies for Sustainable Management
This systematic review summarizes the environmental and health impacts of plastic waste and evaluates strategies for sustainable management. It highlights that plastic pollution threatens ecosystems and human health through microplastic contamination, and examines approaches like recycling, biodegradable alternatives, and policy interventions to reduce exposure.
Aquatic one health framework: Integrating ocean ecosystems and human well-being
This paper introduces an Aquatic One Health framework that integrates ocean ecosystem health with human and animal wellbeing, discussing how marine pollutants including microplastics form interconnected threats that require coordinated environmental and public health responses.
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.
A One Health Approach to Marine Health
This paper applies the One Health framework — which integrates human, animal, and environmental health — to the challenge of protecting marine ecosystems from climate change, plastic pollution, and overfishing. The authors argue that addressing ocean health requires interdisciplinary collaboration between public health, environmental science, and policy sectors.
Sustainability in anaesthesia and critical care: beyond carbon
Researchers reviewed the full environmental footprint of healthcare — going beyond greenhouse gas emissions to include water pollution, toxic chemicals, and microplastics — and found that drugs like propofol and antibiotics discharged into waterways, along with massive quantities of disposable plastic equipment, pose serious ecological risks. The article calls on clinicians and policymakers to adopt holistic strategies that reduce waste, limit single-use plastics, and account for the full spectrum of environmental harm.
Waste plastic management: Recycling and the environmental health nexus
Researchers reviewed plastic recycling methods and their health and environmental trade-offs, finding that mechanical recycling releases microplastics that can enter the body through inhalation and ingestion, and calling for smarter waste management systems and reduced use of toxic plastic additives.
Sustaining Life: Human Health–Planetary Health Linkages
This chapter introduces the Planetary Health framework, which treats human and environmental health as inseparable, using examples like climate change, chemical contamination, and biodiversity loss. Microplastic pollution fits within this framework as a chemical contamination threat that simultaneously harms ecosystems and human health.
Relationship between climate change and environmental microplastics: a one health vision for the platysphere health
This review examines the two-way relationship between climate change and microplastic pollution: plastic production generates greenhouse gases, while extreme weather events spread microplastics further into the environment. The study uses a One Health framework to argue that addressing microplastic pollution and climate change together is essential for protecting human, animal, and environmental health.
A review on effects of microplastics on animal, environment and human health considering One Health perspective
This review examines the effects of microplastics on animal, environmental, and human health from a One Health perspective, highlighting how microplastic contamination interconnects ecological, animal, and human health systems.