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March 19, 2015 Volume 1, Issue 2 INSIDE: List of Online GH... 2 Time to Care About... 2 Ecruiters Weigh In... 2 Did Climate Change... 3 Climate Change and Babies... 3 Deforestation and the Plague 3 Why Ocean Health... 4 Ivory Trade in China 4 Let’s Break the Vicious... 4 Clean Cookstoves... 5 Top Ten Health... 5 The International Journal... 5 Conferences and Symposiums 6 PLANETARY HEALTH WEEKLY BRINGING YOU CURRENT NEWS ON WHO: Climate Change Will Increase Threat of Neglected Tropical Diseases Neglected tropical diseases such as yaws, guinea worm and dengue fever are likely to spread beyond their traditional habitats due to climate change, says a report by the World Health Organization. "The potential for spread provides yet another strong argument for making the needed investments" in curbing NTDs, says Dirk Engels of WHO.Responding to Climate Change (U.K.) (2/20), Reuters See: http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/02/19/health-disease- eradication-idINKBN0LN1TX20150219 Asbestos exposure is the single largest on-the-job killer in Canada, accounting for more than a third of total workplace death claims approved last year and nearly a third since 1996, new national data obtained by The Globe and Mail show. The 368 death claims last year alone represent a higher number than fatalities from highway accidents, fires and chemical exposures combined. See: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on- business/asbestos-is-canadas-top-source-of- workplace-death/article22081291/ RYERSON UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF COMMUNITY SERVICES Child and Youth Care Disability Studies Early Childhood Studies Midwifery Nursing Nutrition Occupational and Public Health Social Work Urban and Regional Planning 350 VICTORIA ST. TORONTO, ON M5B 2K3 Asbestos Revealed as Canada’s Top Cause of Workplace Death
Transcript of RYERSON PLANETARY UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY SERVICES … · 2016. 9. 16. · Volume 1, Issue 2 March 19,...
March 19, 2015 Volume 1, Issue 2
INSIDE:
List of Online GH... 2
Time to Care About... 2
Ecruiters Weigh In... 2
Did Climate Change... 3
Climate Change and Babies... 3
Deforestation and the Plague 3
Why Ocean Health... 4
Ivory Trade in China 4
Let’s Break the Vicious... 4
Clean Cookstoves... 5
Top Ten Health... 5
The International Journal... 5
Conferences and Symposiums 6
PLANETARY
HEALTH WEEKLY BRINGING YOU CURRENT NEWS ON
WHO: Climate Change Will Increase Threat of Neglected
Tropical Diseases
Neglected tropical diseases such as yaws, guinea worm and dengue fever are likely to spread beyond their traditional habitats due to climate change, says a report by the World Health Organization. "The potential for spread provides yet another strong argument for making the needed investments" in curbing NTDs, says Dirk Engels of WHO.Responding to Climate Change (U.K.) (2/20), Reuters
See: http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/02/19/health-disease-
eradication-idINKBN0LN1TX20150219
Asbestos exposure is the single largest on-the-job killer in Canada, accounting for more than a third of total workplace death claims approved last year and nearly a third since 1996, new national data obtained by The Globe and Mail show. The 368 death claims last year alone represent a higher number than fatalities from highway accidents, fires and chemical exposures combined.
See: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-
business/asbestos-is-canadas-top-source-of-workplace-death/article22081291/
RYERSON
UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF
COMMUNITY SERVICES
Child and Youth Care
Disability Studies
Early Childhood Studies
Midwifery
Nursing
Nutrition
Occupational and Public
Health
Social Work
Urban and Regional
Planning
350 VICTORIA ST. TORONTO, ON
M5B 2K3
Asbestos Revealed as Canada’s Top Cause of Workplace Death
After months of development, we're ready to unveil the new CUGH website to our members and to the public. Designed with our community in mind, we've incorporated a host of new features that will allow us to bring more value to our members by highlighting all their amazing work and contributions will still engaging the public enough to further good practices and cutting edge discussions on the topic of global health. See: http://www.cugh.org/news/welcome-new-cugh-website
Devex recently asked our network of international development recruiters to make their predictions for upcoming career trends. More than 100 recruiters participated in the "Devex Career Trends in 2015" survey, providing insight into where their organizations anticipate the most job opportunities and what kinds of global development professionals will be in demand in the coming year. See: https://www.devex.com/news/recruiters-weigh-in-top-career-trends-to-watch-for-in-2015-85545
List of Online GH Resources Posted to CUGH Website
eCruiters Weigh in: Top Global Development Career Trends of 2015
Time to Care About Soil Management in 2015
The quantity and quality of the food we eat depend on healthy soils, but soil management has so far failed to become a top priority in the global development agenda — a trend the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization hopes to change in 2015, declared the International Year of Soils.
Lack of interest in the issue by donors and implementers alike has long
worried soil advocates. The Montpellier Panel, a group of African and European experts focused on agricultural
development and food security in sub-Saharan Africa, noted in a December 2014 report how “undervalued, soils
have become politically and physically neglected, triggering land degradation” across the whole region. See: https://www.devex.com/news/time-to-care-about-soil-management-in-2015-85421
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The destruction of forests is known to cause the
release of massive amounts of greenhouse gases,
destroy critical wildlife habitat, and increase soil
erosion, which can lead to deadly floods and landslides.
But converting forests to farmland can also increase the
spread of the plague, according to researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB).
See: https://news.vice.com/article/deforestation-may-be-helping-to-spread-the-plague-in-africa?utm_source=vicenewsemail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=News_EN&utm_campaign=VICE%20News
Did Climate Change Spark 2011 Syrian Uprising?
Deforestation and the Plague
Climate Change and Babies
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A new study has said that a record drought, stoked by ongoing manmade climate change that ravaged Syria in 2006-2010 may have sparked the 2011 Syrian uprising. Researchers say the drought, the worst ever recorded in the region, destroyed agriculture in the breadbasket region of northern Syria, driving dispossessed farmers to cities, where poverty, government mismanagement and other factors
created unrest that exploded in spring 2011. The conflict has since evolved into a complex multinational war that has killed at least 200,000 people and displaced millions.
See: http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/did-climate-change-spark-2011-syrian-uprising-115030300212_1.html
If you're like me, climate change keeps you up at night on a regular basis. It's not so much that we're still on track for the worst-case global warming scenario, or that the survival of countless species—not to mention civilization as we know it—hangs in the balance, but the quiet understanding that our kids are going to feel some of the worst impacts in just a few brief decades.
See: http://www.vice.com/read/should-climate-change-stop-us-from-having-babies-305
The good news is the world’s oceans have not experienced the extinctions that have occurred on land. But as ecologist Douglas McCauley explains in a Yale Environment 360 interview, marine life now face numerous threats even more serious than overfishing. Last month, a group of marine experts — including lead author Douglas McCauley, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara —published a groundbreaking study in the journal Science that delivered a sobering message: The world’s oceans are on the verge of major change that could cause irreparable damage to marine life. http://www.oceanhealthindex.org/News/Updated_2014_scores See: https://www.devex.com/news/time-to-care-about-soil-management-in-2015-85421
A recent Oxfam report states that by 2016, 1% of the
world population will own more wealth than the rest of
us combined. This economic injustice is intertwined
with gender inequality, and also with inequality in
access to education and health. Inequality in access to medicine is a key feature of this global inequality.
See: http://www.globalhealthcheck.org/
Why Ocean Health Is Better And Worse Than You Think
Let’s Break the Vicious Circle of Inequality in Health and Access to Medicines
Ivory Trade in China
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China's booming e-commerce websites have carried thousands of advertisements for illegal wildlife products including ivory, rhino horn and tiger bone, a wildlife trade monitoring network said today. More than half of such products offered online in recent months are ivory, the British group TRAFFIC found in a survey of 15 Chinese retail websites over a two year period.
See: http://world.einnews.com/article/252785852/TrNYHg5mAhouxXUB
Clean cookstoves do much more than cook food -- they promote gender
equality, write Radha Muthiah, CEO of the Global Alliance for Clean
Cookstoves, and Michele Sullivan, president of the Caterpillar Foundation. As
the world celebrates International Women's Day on Sunday, they argue that
clean cookstoves improve the indoor environment and give "women the time
and income needed to pursue opportunities of their choice."
See:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radha-muthiah/clean-cookstoves-can-driv_b_6808646.html
The International Journal of Health Services (JOH) contains articles on health and social policy, political economy and sociology, history and philosophy, ethics and law in the areas of health and health care. The Journal provides analysis of developments in the health and social sectors of every area of the world, including relevant scholarly articles, position papers, and stimulating debates about the most controversial issues of the day. It is of interest to health professionals and social scientists interested in the many different facets of health, disease, and health care.
See: http://joh.sagepub.com/content/by/year
Clean Cookstoves are Essential to Improving Women's Lives
Sage Grants Free Access (1999-2014) To One of the World’s Best Health Journals
Top Ten Health Problems of Women
International Women's Day on March 8 is a day to cel-ebrate women and their achievements. It's also a day to take stock of how women's rights, especially the right to health, are fulfilled in the world. Women still face many health problems and we must re-commit to addressing them. See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/flavia-bustreo/international-womens-day-_25_b_6811214.html
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History teach-es us that capitalism is fierce and vicious when it can, and ‘civilized’ when it
must. The economic logic of the system requires it to adapt whenever the accumulation process is affected. This is why, in the second decade of the 2000s, global capitalism is trying to go 'green'. Before that, ecological aspects were simply considered externalities, i.e., they did not enter in the calculations the market made. Consequently, damage to nature was not paid by capital, but by the people and nations. The same applies to the severe social damage that has been done. Claudio Schuftan, Human Rights Reader 355 [email protected]
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