Challenges and opportunities in planetary health for primary care providers

作者：Edward Xie, Enrique Barros, Alan Abelsohn, Aírton Tetelbom Stein, Andy Haines · 发表于：The Lancet Planetary Health · 年份：2018 · DOI：10.1016/s2542-5196(18)30055-x · 被引用次数：81 · 研究领域：Climate Change and Health Impacts、Health disparities and outcomes、Global Health Care Issues

Primary care providers (PCPs) are trusted to provide a person-centred, comprehensive, and integrated response to health challenges. Through preventive health measures, PCPs also have a responsibility to strengthen the resilience of the communities they serve. Many environmental alterations, including climate change, air pollution, biodiversity loss, freshwater depletion, land use change, and exposures to toxic chemicals, threaten the advances in human health experienced in the past decades. PCPs can be instrumental in helping to address some of the causes and consequences of these environmental alterations.