A new invited article has been published in Africa Health News which focuses on the development of a proposed UN-2030 SDG/One Health education initiative in Commonwealth nations
Development of a project proposal supporting a sustainable future for people and planet. By George Lueddeke, Chair One Health Education Task Force, One Health Commission.
Time to ‘stop, think and do!’
Human existence is deeply embedded in the natural world and the survival of all species, including our own, is wholly dependent on a healthy planet. But the health of our planet is in serious trouble (1). According to the authors of ‘Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health,’ (2) while ‘human health is better today than any time in human history’ as life expectancy has risen across the globe and child mortality rates have fallen significantly, our progress to date has come at a steep price, some have called the Ecology Paradox: ‘we have been mortgaging the health of future generations in order to realize economic and development gains in the present.’ (2). Evidence of this trade-off abounds, including, as highlighted by the Center for One Health Research at the University of Washington, ‘biodiversity loss, climate change, particulate air pollution, ocean acidification, and deforestation.’ (3).
Read more at: http://africahealthnews.com/development-project-proposal-supporting-sustainable-future-people-planet/