On 29 October 2012 the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) published jointly an Atlas of health and climate that provides scientific information on the…
Members of this network are invited to join a telemeeting 2-3pm on Thursday 15th November 2012.The meeting will review recent activity including the following:GMC curriculum consultation working…
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare and the Sustainable Healthcare Education Network are looking for a volunteer / intern to provide administrative support for a national consultation exercise on…
Benny Goodman 2012.
“In a world characterised by complexity and uncertainty, our long term survival lies less in our ability to ‘apply the grammar’ (of sustainability literacy) and more in our…
I just stumbled across this free e-learning course to improve your carbon literacy and understanding of the greenhouse effect and climate change.The website says it takes about 4 hours although it…
Dear all,This is to welcome all the new members to this online network for Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE). The online network replaces the previous email lists and is much better because…
David Pencheon has been quoted recently as seeing opportunity in the disruption caused by the passing of the Health and Social Care Act.
With new commissioning groups forming, priorities and visions…
Not sure whether people have seen this article in the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jul/03/prescription-medicine-unused?INTCMP=SRCH
Regards,
Mark
Diabetes and climate change are two urgent challenges in the21st century. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF)has produced a pioneering policy report that establishesboth the interconnections…
If health is based on social determinants (WHO 2008), if health is based on the physical environment (Barton and Grant 2006), then, just as slavery and apartheid were crimes aganst humanity, ecocide…