August 15, 2021 - 16 August 2021 Leaders representing over 500,000 Australian healthcare professionals and 298 organisations have today released powerful video messages urging the Federal Government to adopt a zero emissions target by 2050 ahead of the critical UN Climate Summit, known as COP26, in November. The health leaders have also highlighted the need to decarbonise the healthcare sector, which represents a staggering 7% of national emissions. Doctors for the Environment Australia has recently called for the health sector to reduce its carbon footprint 80% by 2030, which the AMA has endorsed. The leaders are delivering their messages in the run up to...
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VIDEO: Growing concerns climate change is impacting asthmatic Australians
January 18, 2024 - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-27/growing-concerns-climate-change-is-impacting-australians/103267418 Dr Kate Wylie talks with the ABCs Ros Childs about how climate change is increasing the incidence and severity of hayfever and asthma. If people have asthma and hayfever symptoms there are treatments available, and people should see their doctor for this, but to truly treat this problem we need to stop the root cause which is burning fossil fuels, like coal and gas....
Launch of joint DEA and WWF-A report: Trees. The forgotten heroes for our health
March 6, 2023 - ...expert, Dr Stuart Blanch to explore why trees are crucial for our health in the first episode of WWF’s new series Chats For Change. Watch to find out more about the amazing life-saving power of trees. https://youtu.be/64nFwtFaU48 Media to date include the Daily Telegraph (pay walled)- the story was syndicated nationally on many of News Corp’s mastheads- and in Smart Daily Lifestyle Magazine, as well as Nine news, ABC Sydney Morning with Sarah MacDonald, ABC Nightlife, AusDoc, Yahoo! news. Key numbers: 334 editorial mentions, with 290 broadcast, 38 online, and 6 print stories. Image credit: © WWF-Aus / think Mammoth ...
Budget2020: DEA calls for a #HealthyRecovery
October 8, 2020 - ...climate; improved adaptation and resilience to heat stress and other effects of climate change. A health-centred economic approach is vital to public health and wellbeing and one which health professionals are calling for. Only weeks ago, Australia’s doctors, representing around 90,000 individual doctors and all of the nation’s GPs, emergency room doctors, physicians, obstetricians, psychiatrists, and intensive care specialists, urged PM Scott Morrison (ScoMo) to put health at the centre of a post-COVID-19 economy recovery. Read the letter here. Budget details Federal Budget Date: Tuesday October 6, 2020 at 7:30pm (AEDT) Watch: LIVE on ABC News Channel Budget documents will be available HERE...
SBS: Heatwaves are a ‘silent killer’, and climate change is making them more common.
August 1, 2022 - Europe has experienced a record-breaking heatwave. Heatwaves pose a serious health threat but are often underestimated, DEA NSW Chair Dr Loo said. “People really underestimate, even some of my own patients, are really underestimating how lethal heat waves can be. Working in Western Sydney, we’re often six to 10 degrees hotter than the rest of Sydney during heatwaves.” As climate change makes extreme weather a more frequent occurrence, a city in Spain has become the first to give a heatwave a name. In Australia, doctors have been calling for action on climate change. “Climate emergency is a public health emergency...
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