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Sustainable Healthcare by Kim Adams
What is sustainable healthcare? The Alliance for Natural Health has defined sustainable healthcare in the following way. A complex system of interacting approaches to the restoration, management and...
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Neoliberalism, Degrowth and the Fate of Health Systems
Dan Bednarz Allana Beavis There are unprecedented and widely unappreciated dangers posed to public health, nursing, medicine and allied health professions by the ongoing global economic contraction....
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Caution! Paradigm Shift Ahead: “Adolescent mobility health”
This is a multimedia presentation by Professor Hank Weiss, delivered Tuesday, October 02, 2012 at the Safety 2012 World Conference (47 min). Adolescents warrant special attention. From a road safety...
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A Blast from the Past – Health Facilities and the Energy Crisis: A...
A conversation with the famous M. King Hubbert by the American Hospital Association, 1976. There are several important take home messages from this interview. The basic impacts of peak oil on our...
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Guest Post: Survive
Josephine Smit and Norman Pagett Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” Winston Churchill Faced with inevitable decline in our access to hydrocarbon resources, we read of...
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Public Health, Thermodynamics and the Cat Food Commission
Dan Bednarz A previous article discusses the future of health systems operating under neoliberal ideology as it comes a cropper in a world undergoing degrowth.[i] Here I consider how this thrusts...
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“The Marks of Death”– Aldo Leopold
“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his...
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Communicating Sustainability: Lessons from public health
Repost of an article by Steven Johnson, an independent writer, speaker and creative consultant specialising in sustainability, CSR and behaviour change. He blogs and tweets as @Considered. Original...
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Physicians, the Global Environment and the Precautionary Principle
Eric Chivian MD, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard University. Filed under: Climate Change, Environmental Health, Medical Ethics
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Deciphering Detropia: The Power of Degrowth, the Destructiveness of...
Dan Bednarz Detropia[i],[ii] stirs anxiety and disorientation among its viewers[iii] through poignant visuals[iv] of the desolate and denuded cityscape blended with the accounts of Detroiters. But what...
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Health groups put climate first in election poll – Media release 5 August 2013
The health community in Australia is calling for strong action on climate change as the prescription for political parties looking for a winning formula in the upcoming federal election. The electorate...
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Power, Identity and Social Change as We Enter Degrowth
Dan Bednarz Understanding the interplay of power[i],[ii] identity, and social change is critical to those who recognize that modern societies are at the limits to growth, in ecological overshoot[iii]...
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Postcard from the Frontline
Peter Gray, MD. I’m a small town family physician in Ontario, Canada with an unremarkable practice consisting mainly of obesity, diabetes, arthritis, hypertension, anxiety / depression and the...
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Health systems, neoliberalism, and the end of growth: The World Health...
Dan Bednarz The WHO (World Health Organization) has released its latest in a series of reports[i] on public health in 53 European nations, and presents this assessment through a focus on the social...
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Public Health’s Response to Decline: Loyalty to the 1%
Dan Bednarz American institutions are in decline and rife with corruption brought on by a combination of hitting the limits to growth while under the control of neoliberal capitalism[i]. To the extent...
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