WONCA Environmental Working Group - Presentation in the World Preconference Prague 2013
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WONCAEnvironmental Working Group
VASCO DA GAMA
No Point keeping head in the sand about major global environmental problems
Environmental Problems amplify existing Global Health Problems
“No man is an island, entire of itself”John Donne (1572-1631)
Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary General RIO+20 Summit Earth Summit
• "This is not the end of the everything, it is the start," the secretary general said. "For too long we have tried to consume our way to prosperity. Look at the cost: polluted lands and ocean, climate change, growing scarcity of resources from food to land to fresh water, rampant inequality”
• "We need to invent a new model; a model that offers growth and social inclusion... that is more respectful of the planet's finite resources.”
• "Nature has been kind to human beings, but we have not been kind to nature."
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." ~ Albert Einstein
www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/bush_stupid.jpg
Reality of Climate Change
Australian Medical Students Association video on climate change
Medical Students and Climate Change
Imogen Hamel Green
How we TEACH OUR OUR FUTURE HEALTH WORKFORCE
How we FRAME HEALTH MESSAGES…Patient Views of Sustainability and their
Doctors’ Roles
“Sustainable Development Goals”Nature March 2013
Our Mission
Our mission is to foster the role of family doctors in protecting the health of their patients
and communities from the impacts of environmental hazards and environmental degradation, and to promote healthy and
sustainable societies at the local and global level
What you can do!
• Join our membership elist
• Visit out meeting
• Consider writing us a piece for the new book“Family Practitioners in the Field- stories from environmental doctors from around the globe”
[email protected] us on facebook and twitter
#envWONCA