Planetary health digest

Gut Health Digest

BACKGROUND: Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) and linear growth stunting affect many rural agrarian children in the developing world and contribute to the persistently high rates of stunting that are observed worldwide. Effective interventions to consistently ameliorate EED are lacking. OBJECTIVE: We tested whether a bundle of safe and affordable interventions would decrease EED and stunt...

Planetary Health as a Central Context to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Reader Digest

In English, Italian La recente introduzione dell'endoscopia tridimensionale nella chirurgia endonasale è stata accolta con favore con l'aspettativa di superare la principale limitazione dell'endoscopia, ovvero la mancanza di visione stereoscopica. Questa innovazione

From public to planetary health: a manifesto.

This manifesto for transforming public health calls for a social movement to support collective public health action at all levels of society—personal, community, national, regional, global, and planetary. Our aim is to respond to the threats we face: threats to human health and wellbeing, threats to the sustainability of our civilisation, and threats to the natural and human-made systems that ...

Addressing planetary health challenges in Africa

Drawing on the report of the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on planetary health-Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch, this piece presents a discussion of the implications of the report's findings and conclusions for Africa. It explores the key planetary health challenges facing Africa and what Africa can do to address them. In addition to highlighting current and future...