What can health professionals contribute to the challenge of sustainability?
What can health professionals contribute to the challenge of sustainability?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.puhe.2009.09.008
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发表时间：
2009-12-01
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影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
Hanlon, P.
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作者：
McCartney, G.;Hanlon, P.
正如医生过去领导了社会变革的各个方面一样，今天的卫生专业人员也必须为可持续发展做出贡献并领导行动。在全球人口、能源使用、货币供应和温室气体排放中可以观察到指数增长和不可持续性。与所有不可持续的系统一样，它们将变得可持续，但时间和方式尚未确定，并且会带来严重的健康威胁。当我们根据自己的生活方式来考虑这些威胁时，我们陷入了过时的思维方式和认知失调的困境。目标应该是减少不平等，解决肥胖、抑郁和成瘾行为等问题，并改善福祉。这一挑战与其他重大公共卫生问题类似，需要确定问题、收集证据、发展理论、建立联盟、制定政策和采取行动。本文概述了如何做到这一点，但表明所需的反应将是前所未有的，并呼吁对已知的事情采取行动，并对不确定的事情进行辩论。 (C) 2009 英国皇家公共卫生学会。由爱思唯尔有限公司出版。保留所有权利。
Just as doctors have led aspects of social change in the past, health professionals today must contribute to and lead actions on sustainability. Exponential growth and unsustainability can be observed in the global population, energy use, money supply and greenhouse gas emissions. As with all unsustainable systems, they will become sustainable, but the timing and manner are undecided and carry profound health threats. We are trapped using outmoded forms of thinking and by our cognitive dissonance as we consider these threats in the light of our own lifestyles. The aim should be a transition that will lessen inequalities, combat problems such as obesity, depression and addictive behaviours, and improve wellbeing. The challenge is similar to other major public health issues in that the problem needs to be identified, evidence gathered, theories developed, alliances built, policies formulated and actions taken. This paper outlines how this can be done but suggests that the response needed will be unprecedented, and calls for action on what is known and debate about what is uncertain. (C) 2009 The Royal Society for Public Health. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.