Abstract
Sustainable healthcare education: integrating planetary health into clinical education
Highlights
The field of planetary health has emerged as a way to prevent further destabilisation of the earth systems and to avoid actions that would herald large-scale morbidity and mortality.[1]
Clinical educators at faculty and dean level have generally resisted the inclusion of planetary health in their undergraduate and postgraduate curricula, either because they are not aware how important the topic is or because they tend to focus on illness treatment over prevention
For the past 10 years, the Sustainable Healthcare Education network has experimented with ways of including planetary health literacy in clinical training
Summary
The field of planetary health has emerged as a way to prevent further destabilisation of the earth systems and to avoid actions that would herald large-scale morbidity and mortality.[1]. Sustainable healthcare education: integrating planetary health into clinical education New evidence and social norms are incorporated only by the dedicated efforts of change agents at national or institutional levels.[2] Clinical educators at faculty and dean level have generally resisted the inclusion of planetary health in their undergraduate and postgraduate curricula, either because they are not aware how important the topic is or because they tend to focus on illness treatment over prevention.
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