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Planetary Health and Population Health: the Anthropocene Requires Different Thinking and Approaches in Serving Public Health

Planetary Health and Population Health: the Anthropocene Requires Different Thinking and... Current Environmental Health Reports (2018) 5:397–400 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-018-0222-z INVITED COMMENTARY Planetary Health and Population Health: the Anthropocene Requires Different Thinking and Approaches in Serving Public Health Wael K. Al-Delaimy Published online: 29 October 2018 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018 . . Keywords Planetary health Epidemiology Anthropocene The health of humans has been at the forefront and priority of Though there were mass extinctions because of natural effort of all past, current and future civilizations, but we are environmental disasters throughout the long history of Earth, now in an age where planetary health is becoming as impor- we are at a pivotal era in which humans are a cause of the tant as human health because of overuse of the planet’sre- decline in the planet in what is known as the Anthropocene. sources in the Anthropocene, the resulting health impacts of The more visible indicators of the start of Anthropocene and which we are now witnessing. We therefore need to think the end of the Holocene is the start of the “Great Acceleration” outside our usual approaches in epidemiology and pursue a as reported by Steffen et al. 2015, in which the authors dem- paradigm shift towards the boundaries of our http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Current Environmental Health Reports Springer Journals

Planetary Health and Population Health: the Anthropocene Requires Different Thinking and Approaches in Serving Public Health

Al-Delaimy, Wael
Current Environmental Health Reports , Volume 5 (4) – Oct 29, 2018
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Biomedicine; Pharmacology/Toxicology; Medicine/Public Health, general; Environmental Health
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Current Environmental Health Reports (2018) 5:397–400 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-018-0222-z INVITED COMMENTARY Planetary Health and Population Health: the Anthropocene Requires Different Thinking and Approaches in Serving Public Health Wael K. Al-Delaimy Published online: 29 October 2018 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018 . . Keywords Planetary health Epidemiology Anthropocene The health of humans has been at the forefront and priority of Though there were mass extinctions because of natural effort of all past, current and future civilizations, but we are environmental disasters throughout the long history of Earth, now in an age where planetary health is becoming as impor- we are at a pivotal era in which humans are a cause of the tant as human health because of overuse of the planet’sre- decline in the planet in what is known as the Anthropocene. sources in the Anthropocene, the resulting health impacts of The more visible indicators of the start of Anthropocene and which we are now witnessing. We therefore need to think the end of the Holocene is the start of the “Great Acceleration” outside our usual approaches in epidemiology and pursue a as reported by Steffen et al. 2015, in which the authors dem- paradigm shift towards the boundaries of our

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