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Global Health's Grand Challenge: A Healthy Planet and Healthy People.

We are living in a golden era of improvements to human health. Our average life expectancy globally has increased from 47 years in the 1950s to 69 years in 2010; maternal death rates, under-5 mortality, and poverty rates have plummeted. However, this has come at a great cost, one we are only beginning to appreciate. The price for these improvements has been the destruction of Earth’s life-suppo...

Healthy buildings, healthy people

When researcher Melkam Kebede started her five-year fellowship at the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia, she was struck by the abundance of natural light and design features that encouraged people to move and mingle. “I’ve worked in many places before, but never seen laboratories with so much natural light,” says Kebede, whose research is on the links between type 2 ...

HEALTHY PLANET, HEALTHY PEOPLE A Guide to Human Health and Biodiversity

Yosemite National Park … hantavirus warning … 22,000 visitors may have been exposed to deadly mouse-borne disease … confirmed cases growing UNEP, 2011-2012 declared " Year of the Bat " Bats provide a range of biodiversity benefits to humans … New drug synthesized from vampire bat saliva in development … Could help stroke victims … " Healthy people are better able to learn, be productive and con...

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Boundaries for a healthy planet.

Author Affiliations: Full Text Word Count: ISSN: Accession Number: Database: Record: 1 BOUNDARIES FOR A HEALTHY PLANET. Foley, Jonathan Scientific American; Apr2010, Vol. 302 Issue 4, p54-57, 4p Article *ENVIRONMENTAL degradation -Prevention *NATURE -Effect of human beings on *OCEAN acidification *CLIMATIC changes -Environmental aspects *WEALTH *ENVIRONMENTAL aspects *GREEN Revolution *INDUSTRI...