DEA - Doctors for the environment

  • A healthy world without inequality

    This article by DEA Committee Member David King was published in Medical Observer 30th April 2013 and appears under a Creative Commons licence. THE social determinants of health have long predicted poorer morbidity and mortality for the marginalised and those on lower incomes. Extensive analysis by Wilkinson…

    Read More | Filed in: DEA In Publication | 03 May 2013 - Dr David King

  • We need to do our homework on the health risks of coal seam gas

    This article by DEA Committee Member Marion Carey was published in The Conversation 2nd April and appears under a Creative Commons licence. Last night’s ABC Four Corners program, Gas Leak!, highlighted worrying flaws in the approval and monitoring processes for coal seam gas (CSG) developments…

    Read More | Filed in: DEA In Media DEA In Publication | 15 April 2013 - Marion Carey

  • Coal’s Economic Cost to Human Health

    Hopefully the day will come when Alan Kohler points to his daily graph on ABC News and announces knowingly “today the cost of coal has doubled...... there was an unfortunate accounting error in yesterday’s price”. He will have taken a vital step for humanity and human health. “Coal…

    Read More | Filed in: DEA In Publication | 06 March 2013 - David Shearman

  • Preparedness is key to extreme weather events

    This article by DEA Committee Member Marion Carey was published in the Medical Observer 22 February and appears with the permission and courtesy of Medical Observer. The medical impacts of extreme weather events is a growing issue in suffering and cost. This is one of several DEA initiatives on this…

    Read More | Filed in: DEA In Publication | 28 February 2013 - Associate Professor Marion Carey

  • Australia’s dietary guidelines and the environmental impact of food “from paddock to plate”

    DEA committee members Dr Linda Selvey and Dr Marion Carey write in the January 2013 edition of the Medical Journal of Australia.  Their article is 'open access'.   Australia’s dietary guidelines and the environmental impact of food “from paddock to plate” Linda A Selvey…

    Read More | Filed in: DEA In Publication Opinion & Commentary | 28 January 2013 - Linda Selvey

  • General Practitioners’ responses to global climate change

    - lessons from clinical experience and the clinical method This interesting paper from authors in Australia and Canada deals with the role of general practitioners in climate change advocacy. Climate change action has become much more complex than anyone could have imagined 10 years ago for it is now…

    Read More | Filed in: DEA In Publication | 19 October 2012 - A/ Prof Grant Blashki

  • Health impact justifies renewable energy

    We thank Medical Observer for permission to republish; a shortened version of this article appeared in the 16th October edition. All of our activities and industries have differing, sometimes complex, health consequences.  A striking example is in electricity generation, where “renewables”…

    Read More | Filed in: DEA In Publication | 17 October 2012 - Dr George Crisp MBBS, MRCGP
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