A Planetary Prescription

Publication date:
December 2024

This issue of environmental SCIENTIST sheds light on the ways in which human health and the environment are inextricably linked. Articles explore the complexities of well-known issues such as PFAS contamination and air pollution, alongside topics including inequitable access to healthcare and the green spaces necessary for wellbeing, the impacts of heat stress on maternal health, and the health effects of increasing mould and fungus in UK housing due to climate change. This edition will ultimately raise important questions about the unevenly distributed effects of environmental damage on human health, and propose ways to address these imbalances head-on.

Contributors in this issue respond to the health impacts of both systemic and specific environmental crises, driving forward thinking around how we respond holistically to the countless health challenges global society is facing, particularly those that are intensified by climate change and its multifaceted effects.
 

  1. Introduction – Health: the complex link between people and the environment – Professor Anna Hansell and Dr Samuel Cai 
  2. Pesticides, PFAS and our food – Nick Mole
  3. A natural health service for the 21st century? – Dom Higgins
  4. The link between fungi, climate and public health – Emma-Jane Goode, Holly Lam, Sani Dimitroulopoulou and Emma L Marczylo
  5. Waste incineration: how necessary is it? – Josh Dowen and Shlomo Dowen
  6. Air pollution and health – Claire Holman
  7. PFAS: health and policy impacts in the UK – Stephanie Metzger
  8. Health, gender and climate justice: a solutions-based approach – Jainaba Badjie and Dr Ana Bonell
  9. Air pollution and environmental justice in the UK – Dr Jo Barnes

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