Physicians, nurses, and other health professionals have a unique capacity to understand and communicate about Planetary Health challenges and the strategies that individuals can take to safeguard their health and the health of the environment.
C4PH is a global effort to galvanize health professionals, patients, and communities around Planetary Health through lifestyle modifications and activism.
Clinicians are people providing healthcare for individuals and communities. This includes physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, midwives, dietitians, healers, health workers, and others.
Over 1,000 clinicians from around the world have formally signed on to the Clinicians for Planetary Health initiative, expressing their commitment to addressing global environmental change and its health impacts.
More than 30 organizations co-signed the global call to action released in The Lancet on Earth Day 2019, which called on health communities around the world to take action on Planetary Health.
Through communicating the urgency of planetary health challenges via a global clinical network, we can spur individual-level behaviour change and bottom-up environmental action.
A call for clinicians to act on planetary health
The Lancet. 2021.
Clinician Organizations
See the 30+ organizations that co-signed The Lancet call to action
Sustaining Ophthalmic Practices for the Future: A High-Value Care Approach to Environmental Responsibility.Ophthalmology and Therapy.
Wong, L.Y, Aslam, T.M., Chang, D.F., and Erny, B.
This review highlights how high-value care in ophthalmology can reduce environmental impact through strategies like immediate bilateral cataract surgery, telemedicine, AI-assisted screenings, and sustainable device use.
Changing climate and socioeconomic factors contribute to global antimicrobial resistance. Nature Medicine.
Li, W., Huang, T., Liu, C., et al.
A new forecasting study by Chinese researchers suggests the long-term impacts of climate change could include higher global antimicrobial resistance (AMR) levels.
Climate-resilient acute care clinical operations: A framework that informs how operations within acute care build climate-resilient health systems. The Canadian College of Health Leaders.
Thomson, D., Zimmermann, G.L., and Gohel, B.
The authors created a guide for the development, implementation, and evaluation of strategies within clinical operations to build more climate-resilient acute care systems.
