A New Conceptual Base for Food and Agricultural Policy: The Emerging Model of Links between Agriculture, Food, Health, Environment and SocietyGlobal Change and Human Health - Tập 1 - Trang 116-130 - 2000
David Waltner-Toews, Tim Lang
Everywhere in the world, food and agricultural policy is under scrutiny. Questions are being asked about both past and present public policy and strategy. The motives for reassessment are various, including trade wars, health impact, ecological concerns, population, citizens rights. After decades in which policy was centrally concerned with raising productivity and production, using a fairly simpl...... hiện toàn bộ
Global Climate Change — the Latest Assessment: Does Global Warming Warrant a Health Warning?Global Change and Human Health - Tập 2 - Trang 64-75 - 2001
RT Watson, AJ McMichael
Global climate change is a qualitatively distinct, and very significant, addition to the spectrum of environmental health hazards encountered by humankind. Historically, environmental health concerns have focused on toxicological or microbiological risks to health from local exposures. However, the scale of environmental health hazards is today increasing; indeed, the burgeoning human impact on th...... hiện toàn bộ
Injury and Environmental Epidemiology, a converging agendaGlobal Change and Human Health - Tập 3 - Trang 4-15 - 2002
Elihu D Richter, Stephen M Reingold
Reliance on motor vehicle travel and the internal combustion engine has provided mobility, but the public health costs are substantial: Road deaths, adverse deleterious health effects from air pollution and noise, reduction in physical exercise, and toxic hazards associated with the refining, transport, use and disposal of petrochemicals. For traumatic road injury, kinetic energy is the pathogen. ...... hiện toàn bộ
Bjorn Lomborg, The Sceptical EnvironmentalistGlobal Change and Human Health - Tập 2 - Trang 133-135 - 2001
A.J. McMichael
Bjorn Lomborg, the "sceptical environmentalist", argues that anxious environmentalists have got it wrong. The world's environment is basically doing fine, he says, despite the increase in humankind's demands upon it.[11] Indeed, he points to various improvements in environmental conditions achieved in recent decades. However, he is only telling the more superficial part of the story; he fails to e...... hiện toàn bộ
Global and Local (Glocal) Health: The WHO Healthy Cities ProgrammeGlobal Change and Human Health - Tập 2 - Trang 34-45 - 2001
Evelyne de Leeuw
Urban health is likely to be one of the momentous challenges of the twenty-first century. Ever increasing numbers of people move to urban environments; the failure to adequately link urban planning to public health is described in this paper, and the WHO Healthy Cities Programme initiated in 1986 is presented as a vehicle to redress that problem. This article describes the foundations, scope and p...... hiện toàn bộ