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🌍 November 3, 2024, marks the ninth annual One Health Day. This year, as we observe One Health Day, our hearts go out to everyone affected by the recent severe flooding in Valencia, Spain. This tragedy highlights how urgent and interconnected our challenges are. The triple crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution are directly and adversely impacting our cities. In such context, we strongly believe that the One Health approach should guide cities adapting urban spaces with nature-based solutions including social inclusion to minimize impact of climate disasters and protect urban populations. As European cities face these threats, it's time to bring One Health to the forefront of EU policy. We urge cities to join our Call for Action to EU policymakers for a One/Planetary Health approach that leads us to a sustainable, healthier future. #OneHealth #PlanetaryHealth #SustainableCities #ClimateAction #EU Guillaume FAUVEL Diana Sepulveda Sofia Aivalioti Marlène Dussauge Céline de Laurens URBACT Päivi Sieppi ICLEI Europe Lahden kaupunki / City of Lahti Ville de Lyon Shreya Utkarsh

🌍 Big News for Urban Health in the EU! 🌍 Today marks a pivotal moment for improving the air we breathe across European cities. The EU Council has officially given the green light to strengthen air quality standards, a crucial step forward in protecting public health and ensuring cleaner urban environments.   This decision will have a profound impact on urban health, particularly for vulnerable populations like children, the elderly, and those with chronic health conditions. Air pollution is one of the most pressing public health challenges in cities, contributing to respiratory illnesses, cardiovascular diseases, and premature deaths. By setting stricter standards, the EU is prioritizing health, reducing the burden of pollution-related diseases, and paving the way for healthier, more livable cities.   Key benefits of these new standards include: - Reduction in harmful pollutants like nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) and particulate matter (PM). - Improved air quality for millions of Europeans, especially in densely populated urban areas. - Alignment with the latest scientific evidence to protect public health.   As we move toward more sustainable and resilient cities, this is a significant step in ensuring that cleaner air becomes a fundamental right for all.   Mistral Project will continue the push for healthier urban spaces! 💨🌿   More information at the link: https://lnkd.in/gHuUcYjc   #UrbanHealth #CleanAirEU #PublicHealth #Sustainability #EU #EnvironmentalPolicy #AirQuality #ClimateAction #HealthyCities #AAQD

A mental standing ovation for this op-ed: "Progress can be made, and it has — in Beijing, Tokyo, Berlin, Los Angeles and other cities. Establishing national air quality standards, enforcing those standards and monitoring progress at the local level was crucial to reducing air pollutants at their source in those cities. Achieving such success, though, requires air quality data over long periods. Few global health issues can be alleviated with an investment of just a few million dollars a year. But gathering air quality data in some of the world’s most polluted countries is one of them." https://lnkd.in/dniV-_Ye

🌡️🌆 #ClimateHealthSolutions Climate Change & Health Initiative: Discover our series of video interviews where authors discuss their case studies from the newly published 'Climate Change and Health: Science-based Policy Solutions,' in collaboration with Save the Children International. Malaysia is grappling with the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon, significantly affecting public health. Norzikri Mohd Kamaruddin, a lead researcher in this project, highlights the growing challenges posed by UHI, particularly for vulnerable populations such as children, the elderly, and women in low-income households. His research underscores the urgent need for targeted interventions and resilience strategies to mitigate UHI-related health risks. Watch the full interview with Zikri Kamaruddin: https://lnkd.in/dwZFUNHe

I am thrilled to announce that the website of my consultancy is available! www.city-health.ch After more than 30 years at different institutions, I will focus on providing academic insight, expert guidance and innovative solutions on physical activity, sustainable transport and healthy cities in 4 main areas: - understand: City Health is an expert in applied research to deepen the understanding on the contributions and mechanisms of physical activity and sustainable transport for urban and planetary health - engage: City Health is your partner to create synergies through engagement and co-creation with all stakeholders through inter- and transsectoral projects and processes, workshops or platforms - assess: City Health has longstanding expertise in health impact and economic assessment, developing and implementing evaluation of policy options and in creating monitoring frameworks and indicator systems -  optimize: policy analysis is part of City Health’s offer to support you optimize your policies and programmes through comprehensive assessments and audit approaches I look very much forward to establish new collaborations in these areas of expertise and to continue working with existing colleagues and partners! (German version forthcoming) #sustainabletransport #physicalactivity #healthycities #research #freelance

Human health is intimately connected to landscape health 🩺 The natural environments that form a backdrop to our lives are not just scenery: they provide the fundamental “ecosystem services” that keep us alive and well. As more of the world’s ecosystems become degraded, our own (human) health is increasingly at risk. To ensure humans can lead long, healthy lives and communities can flourish, we need to live in environments that are flourishing too – and this means protecting, restoring and regenerating the world’s landscapes. Understanding landscape restoration as a health benefit creates a compelling incentive for communities, policymakers, and individuals to prioritise and actively engage in the restoring healthy environmental systems. Because it underscores an undeniable truth: by cultivating the health of the landscapes we are part of, we simultaneously nurture our own health. You can read more in this story written for Commonland:https://buff.ly/4cTWsJg #Sustainability #Biodiversity #Health #Sustainabledevelopment

The results of our 2024 planetary health survey are now available! Gathering feedback from 145 provincial renal network members, this online survey sought to better understand perspectives on environmentally sustainable care within the network, as well as to identify potential barriers and key strategies moving forward. See the survey findings in the graphic below. #KidneyCare #KidneyHealth #KidneyDisease #PlanetaryHealth #EnvironmentalSustainability

Portugal is the country in Europe where the death rate in winter and summer has the highest correlation with outdoor temperatures. This paper describes the development of a new public dashboard that uses a new early warning index for extreme weather events, the CLIMAEXTREMO index, which extends the existing warning system by improving the current forecasting models for risk by integrating new sources of public data and increasing the spatial and time resolution of the warnings to the municipality or the parish level. The new index combines a new model to estimate the relative mortality increase together with a model of the indoor temperature of building archetypes for all municipalities and a vulnerability index that considers socio-demographic economic indicators. This work discusses the results of a new risk indicator for the heat waves that occurred in Portugal at the end of June and mid-August 2023, and it shows that the index was able to indicate a high risk for the municipalities that had an increase in the number of deaths during that period. #HeatWaves #ColdWaves #ExtremeWeather #EarlyWarningSystem #VulnerabilityIndex #IndoorTemperature #RelativeExcessiveMortality #SustainabilityTools Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge IN+ Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research Interactive Technologies Institute

Climate change affects not only our planet but has an impact on our societies and individual health.🌍 As a health professional, you are trusted in communities, and as such, you have a unique responsibility to educate society on the health impacts of climate change.👨⚕️ With individual health being in your best interest, encouraging planetary health principles that may safeguard our people against climate change should be of significance.😷 At PAN South Africa, we equip you with the tools to encourage sustainable, low-carbon eating habits to preserve our ecosystems and the health of our people.🥦 Health professionals, you have the power to ignite change and be the voice of a sustainable future.🌳 Visit the link in our bio to find the World Health Organization's climate and health toolkit to help you effectively communicate on climate and health.🌍 Link to toolkit: https://lnkd.in/ep-jnD7C #Health #Climatechange #Sustainability #Plantbased #Change

Health in the EU Climate Risk Assessment: What does it mean for Belgium?   Belgium is uniquely vulnerable due to its dense population, urbanization, geography, pre-existing public health problems (high % respiratory problems, older population and rising age, high NCD disease burden). Climate change and other environmental hazards are already impacting health in Belgium today, and will worsen in the future. This article explores the health dimensions of the EUCRA, focusing on the implications for Belgium’s healthcare system, population, and climate policies. Read more : https://lnkd.in/e8nD9ich #ClimateChange #Health #Eucra #Cerac