Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency | ||||
African Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology | ||||
Volume 6, Issue 1, 2023, Page 122-126 PDF (285.84 K) | ||||
Document Type: Editorials | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/ajgh.2023.324023 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
Abbasi Kamran1; Ali Parveen2; Virginia Barbour3; Thomas Benfield4; Kirsten Bibbins Domingo5; Stephen Hancocks6; Richard Horton7; Laurie Laybourn-Langton8; Robert Mash9; Peush Sahni10; Wadeia Mohammad Sharief11; Paul Yonga12; Chris Zielinski ![]() | ||||
1Editor-in-Chief, British Medical Journal | ||||
2Editor-in-Chief, International Nursing Review | ||||
3Editor-in-Chief, Medical Journal of Australia | ||||
4Editor-in-Chief, Danish Medical Journal | ||||
5Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the American Medical Association | ||||
6Editor-in-Chief, British Dental Journal | ||||
7Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet | ||||
8University of Exeter | ||||
9Editor-in-Chief, African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine | ||||
10Editor-in-Chief, National Medical Journal of India | ||||
11Editor-in-Chief, Dubai Medical Journal | ||||
12Editor-in-Chief, East African Medical Journal | ||||
13University of Winchester | ||||
Abstract | ||||
Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognize that climate change and biodiversity loss are indivisible crises and must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe. This environmental crisis is now so severe as to be a global health emergency. | ||||
Keywords | ||||
time to treat; climate and nature crisis; global health emergency | ||||
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