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People’s Health Tribunal | Tribunal de la Santé des Peuples | Tribunal de Salud de los Pueblos | محكمة صحة الشعب | Mahakama ya Afya ya Watu
Shell & Total Energies vs. The People of Africa
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Health Lobby of MPs for Green Jobs
This May, we’re taking action to convince MPs of the public health case for creating millions of good, secure green jobs post-COVID. Join us!
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Hospital Food
Every year, the NHS spends about £600 million on food and catering services, mostly in hospitals. But hospital food is often considered to be of poor quality, and the hospital […]
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Farming and Antibiotics
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an increasing global public health threat, that requires urgent and co-ordinated action across all sectors. Whilst most of the focus has been on human use of […]
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Healthy Air
Health professionals treat the impacts of air pollution on a daily basis. The recent report Every Breath We Take, by the Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health and The […]
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Fracking
“The arguments against fracking on public health and ecological grounds are overwhelming. There are clear grounds for adopting the precautionary principle and prohibiting fracking” – Quote from an open letter in […]
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Shale Gas Production in England – an updated public health assessment
Download: A Public Health Assessment of Shale Gas in England Medact’s new report summarises the findings of a public health assessment of unconventional shale gas production in England. In 2015 […]
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Medact Manchester campaign to save the Salford Royal Hospital kitchen
Background The Salford Royal Hospital, part of the Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, is an acute hospital with 839 beds. Whilst patient catering was provided in-house and well rated by […]
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Sustainable Food Systems in Undergraduate Education
“…health professionals need to become well informed about the dangers posed by global environmental change to the health of those they serve and the potential for health co-benefits from policies […]
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Sustainable Diets
“What, and how much we eat directly affects what, and how much is produced. We therefore need to consume more “sustainable diets” – diets that have lower environmental impacts, and […]
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IPCC Briefings
The reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), set up under the auspices of the United Nations, represent the most authoritative scientific understanding of climate change. Three scientific working groups […]