Redesigning public health for planetary health

摘要

The current state of planetary health inevitably leads to recognition of the failure of our current models of development, and it constitutes a call for each of us to profoundly revise our frameworks for action. The public health field, with its mission of protecting and promoting health and equity, is at the forefront of such an agenda. However, we are still ignoring the harmful effects of our current recommendations on planetary health. As practitioners and researchers, we need to invest in a new public health ecological approach.1 This change requires both incorporating a new value—sustainability—into our discourse and practices and investing in the strategic political dimension of our role. We propose foundational elements that should be integrated in our practice, to address unprecedented threats to biodiversity and human health.