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Planetary Health “….the achievement of the highest attainable standard of health, wellbeing, and equity worldwide through judicious attention to the human.

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1 Planetary Health “….the achievement of the highest attainable standard of health, wellbeing, and equity worldwide through judicious attention to the human systems-political, economic, and social-that shape the future of humanity and the Earth’s natural systems that define the safe environmental limits within which humanity can flourish.” The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health report Note The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on Planetary Health Report You may ask why not “global health”? Let’s look at that

2 “we have been mortgaging the health of future generations to realize economic and development gains in the present. By unsustainably exploiting nature’s resources, human civilization has flourished but now risks substantial health effects from the degradation of nature’s life support systems...” This direct quote from The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on Planetary Health Report succinctly draws our attention to our social call to action, based on big data analytics. Whitmee et al., 2015

3 https://planetaryhealthalliance.org/
The Planetary Health Alliance (PHA) is a consortium of universities, NGOs and other partners with a shared mission—supporting the growth of a rigorous, policy-focused, transdisciplinary field of applied research aimed at understanding and addressing the human health implications of accelerating anthropogenic change in the structure and function of Earth’s natural systems.


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