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Planetary health for family doctors - Foreword

1 Apr 2021

The prevention of future zoonotic events such as Covid-19 requires better understanding of how an animal virus jumped species boundaries to infect humans, with devastating impacts, and the role of environmental changes in increasing the risk of such events. [...] The implications of planetary level environmental changes for the health of populations around the world are becoming apparent and the burdens will often fall predominantly on those populations who have contributed little to greenhouse gas emissions and to the destruction of natural systems, increasing inequities in health and wealth. [...] and Director, WONCA AirHealth Train the Trainer; Department of Family and Community Medicine and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. [...] Maria Lucrécia Scherer Zavaschi Psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, Master and Doctor in Medical Sciences at Federal University of Rio Grande (UFRGS), member of the Psychoanalytic Society of Porto Alegre, President and Director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis. [...] Family Physician Resident, Academic Postgraduate Teaching Practice, with the University of Cologne; Member WONCA-WP Environment, Co-Chair WP “Climate Change and Health” of the German College of General Practitioners and Family Medicine.
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