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Climate Action at Public Health Schools in the European Region
Climate change is putting the achievement of all Sustainable Development Goals at risk and leads to negative impacts on human health and well-being. Consequently, tremendous social responsibility lies with public health professionals and their associations. Therefore, this study addressed the follow...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7914969/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33562849 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041518 |
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author | Orhan, Rana Middleton, John Krafft, Thomas Czabanowska, Katarzyna |
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description | Climate change is putting the achievement of all Sustainable Development Goals at risk and leads to negative impacts on human health and well-being. Consequently, tremendous social responsibility lies with public health professionals and their associations. Therefore, this study addressed the following question: “How can the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) best support the goals of the European Green Deal through its network of public health schools and departments?” This study looked at the implementation of climate education in public health schools in the European region and climate action taken by these public health schools. An online survey among ASPHER members with a 51% overall response rate (excluding non-European members) shows that 64% of the responding schools provide climate-health educational offerings, while 63% consider these for the future. Additionally, most climate actions taken by the schools were ad hoc actions. These findings show that a systematic approach is missing, and there is a general lack of strategy in most schools. We consequently recommend that schools invest in climate and health education in their curricula and become exemplars for climate action to actively contribute to the achievement of Europe’s climate goals. |
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spelling | pubmed-79149692021-03-01 Climate Action at Public Health Schools in the European Region Orhan, Rana Middleton, John Krafft, Thomas Czabanowska, Katarzyna Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Climate change is putting the achievement of all Sustainable Development Goals at risk and leads to negative impacts on human health and well-being. Consequently, tremendous social responsibility lies with public health professionals and their associations. Therefore, this study addressed the following question: “How can the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) best support the goals of the European Green Deal through its network of public health schools and departments?” This study looked at the implementation of climate education in public health schools in the European region and climate action taken by these public health schools. An online survey among ASPHER members with a 51% overall response rate (excluding non-European members) shows that 64% of the responding schools provide climate-health educational offerings, while 63% consider these for the future. Additionally, most climate actions taken by the schools were ad hoc actions. These findings show that a systematic approach is missing, and there is a general lack of strategy in most schools. We consequently recommend that schools invest in climate and health education in their curricula and become exemplars for climate action to actively contribute to the achievement of Europe’s climate goals. MDPI 2021-02-05 2021-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7914969/ /pubmed/33562849 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041518 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Orhan, Rana Middleton, John Krafft, Thomas Czabanowska, Katarzyna Climate Action at Public Health Schools in the European Region |
title | Climate Action at Public Health Schools in the European Region |
title_full | Climate Action at Public Health Schools in the European Region |
title_fullStr | Climate Action at Public Health Schools in the European Region |
title_full_unstemmed | Climate Action at Public Health Schools in the European Region |
title_short | Climate Action at Public Health Schools in the European Region |
title_sort | climate action at public health schools in the european region |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7914969/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33562849 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041518 |
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