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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 retail environment unhealthy. There is an urgent need to improve the quality of hospital food for patients, visitors and staff to make it more healthy…
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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 antibiotics, there is now “compelling” scientific evidence that antibiotic resistance is being transmitted from farm animals to humans. Yet the overuse of these medications in…
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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 Royal College of Physicians, concluded that: “Each year in the UK, around 40,000 deaths are attributable to exposure to outdoor air pollution which plays a…
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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 the BMJ in support of Medact’s report on Health and Fracking: the impacts & opportunity costs. Fracking is a term used to describe the process of…
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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 Medact published its first report on this subject, Health & Fracking, which outlined the potential impacts on health of fracking in the UK. Since the…
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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 both patients and staff, the kitchen was reported to be in need of complete refurbishment. On the 2nd February 2016, the Trust decided to put…
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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 to prevent damage to natural systems.” Lancet commission on planetary health 2015 While most undergraduate clinical training includes some curricula about diet, nutrition and climate…
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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 are healthier.” Garnett 2014 In the UK we are consuming more than our fair share of food and therefore natural resources. We have developed a…
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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 have been constituted to cover different areas: • Working Group 1 (IPCC-WG1) – The physical scientific aspects of the climate system and climate change. •…