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AMA and DEA outline plan to reduce healthcare’s carbon footprint to top health bureaucrats
The AMA and DEA outlined their plans to heads of state and federal health departments to reduce the healthcare sector’s carbon footprint....
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AMA and DEA Make Joint Call for Emissions Reduction in Healthcare
Climate change is a health emergency, which is already contributing to life-threatening illness and deaths and the Australian healthcare sector is part of the problem – contributing about 7 per cent to Australia’s national carbon...
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Report: Net Zero Emissions for Australia’s healthcare sector (14 Dec 2020)
Towards net zero emissions in healthcare The changing climate is exposing our patients and communities to more frequent and intense extreme weather. Health professionals are increasingly treating climate-related illnesses, and ......
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Doctors for the Environment believe climate was decider for voters in Australia
National Chair of Doctors for the Environment, John Van Der Kallen said climate change is now a deciding issue for Australian voters from all sides of politics. “I think we ......
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Dr Cybele Dey: Mental health is the unseen casualty of climate change
Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) congratulates the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Congress 2022 “A Climate of Change”, the New South Wales Australian Medical Association and a series of Climate Change and Mental ......
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Dr Kimberly Humphrey: How Climate Change Is Directly Impacting Australia’s Health
Ahead of this week’s federal election, Radio programme Radiotherapy on 3RRR interviewed Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) Deputy Chair Dr Kimberly Humphrey to talk about the impact that climate ......
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Dr David Shearman: The war on climate change requires national sacrifices
Dr David Shearman is co-founder of DEA and Emeritus Professor of medicine at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. He is co-author of “The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure ......
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Dr Brooke Ah Shay: Why biodiversity matters to every one of us
Species shouldn’t have to prove their worth to humans for the right to exist – but as it happens, they do...
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Media release: Australia deserves certainty on net zero target
DEA deputy Chair Dr Kimberly Humphrey said that a recent Australia Institute survey showed that fossil fuels were costing Australia $22,000 per minute. Subsidies for fossil fuels noted in the AI survey showed that the cost of $11.6...
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Dr Kim Loo is interviewed by Greenpeace about the health impacts of fires, floods and seasonal extremes of western Sydney
All photographs and text courtesy of Greenpeace Australia © Isabella Moore / Greenpeace In late February and March 2022, intense rainfall and floods affected millions of residents in Queensland and ......
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Hope is not a method – we must act now to decarbonise the health sector
Are we able to reimagine a world where clean air, water and food are available to all? Where economies are focused on health and well-being? Where cities are liveable and ......
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Doctors ask Prime Minister Scott Morrison to reconsider funding for the oil industry
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s pledge to inject more funding into the oil industry risks Australians’ health and should be reconsidered, Doctors for the Environment say. Doctors for the Environment Chair ......
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Educational Resource: Mapping Climate Change and Health into the Medical Curriculum
Co-development of a ‘Planetary Health-Organ System Map’ for Graduate Medical Education It is imperative that educating the medical workforce to understand, address and mitigate the health effects of climate change ......
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