749 - Planetary Health: Thinking About The Earth Crisis As A Humanitarian Crisis
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English - April 22, 2024 10:00 - 18 minutes - 25.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 571 ratingsNews Health & Fitness Medicine covid19 globalhealth medicine science coronavirus covid education health novelcoronavirus publichealth Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Humans are transforming, degrading, and altering Earth’s natural life support systems so profoundly that our actions have created an existential crisis. For Earth Day, Sam Myers, founding director of the Planetary Health Alliance and director of the brand new Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the concept of planetary health, an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how the state of the earth affects the health of us all.
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