Breaking free from tunnel vision for climate change and health | PLOS Global Public Health
Affiliations Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Lancaster Medical School, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1130-2333 Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing ¶‡ TAD and REO are joint first authors. Affiliation School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3301-2783 Climate change is widely recognised as the greatest threat to public health this century, but ‘climate change and health’ often refers to a narrow and limited focus on emissions, and the impacts of the climate crisis, rather than a holistic assessment of economic structures and systems of oppression. This tunnel vision misses key aspects of the climate change and health intersection, such as the
Breaking free from tunnel vision for climate change and health | PLOS Global Public Health Article Authors Metrics Comments Media Coverage Reader Comments Figures Figures Abstract Climate change is widely recognised as the greatest threat to public health this century, but ‘climate change and health’ often refers to a narrow and limited focus on emissions , and the impacts of the climate crisis, rather than a holistic assessment of economic structures and systems of oppression. This tunnel vision misses key aspects of the climate change and health intersection, such as the enforcers of planeta
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