Planetary health is human health

Red and processed meat, and human and planetary health.

Analyses from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-AARP study have previously shown that mortality was higher among participants with a high meat intake. With a total of more than 7.5 million person years of observation, further analyses by Etemadi and colleagues (doi:10.1136/bmj.j1957) now show an association between high intakes of red and processed meat and elevated total mortality and mo...

From public to planetary health: a manifesto.

This manifesto for transforming public health calls for a social movement to support collective public health action at all levels of society—personal, community, national, regional, global, and planetary. Our aim is to respond to the threats we face: threats to human health and wellbeing, threats to the sustainability of our civilisation, and threats to the natural and human-made systems that ...

Addressing planetary health challenges in Africa

Drawing on the report of the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on planetary health-Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch, this piece presents a discussion of the implications of the report's findings and conclusions for Africa. It explores the key planetary health challenges facing Africa and what Africa can do to address them. In addition to highlighting current and future...

Planetary Health as a Central Context to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

A Comparison of Three Holistic Approaches to Health: One Health, EcoHealth, and Planetary Health

Several holistic and interdisciplinary approaches exist to safeguard health. Three of the most influential concepts at the moment, One Health, EcoHealth, and Planetary Health, are analyzed in this paper, revealing similarities and differences at the theoretical conceptual level. These approaches may appear synonymous, as they all promote the underlying assumption of humans and other animals sha...