McLean Michelle, Gibbs Trevor
Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia.
Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), Dundee, Scotland.
Med Teach. 2022 May;44(5):462-465. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2022.2040733. Epub 2022 Mar 8.
Climate change is one of the greatest threats to human health. It is not surprising that following one of the hottest years on record (2019) and wildfires on almost all continents that the 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the 2021 Countdown on Climate Change identified a Code Red for humanity and for a healthy future. In addition, just prior to the November 2021 Conference of the Parties (COP26), the World Health Organization released its Special Report, , in which the global health community provided 10 recommendations for policymakers and governments for greener, cleaner and more sustainable action to ensure a healthy and just future. There is thus an urgent need for socially and environmentally accountable health professions education to pick up the pace in terms of climate change, planetary health and/or sustainable health care integration in curricula. Considerable work has already been undertaken by faculty and students. As we are in this together, students and faculty can collaborate and build upon the work already undertaken to ensure universities are social and environmentally accountable.
气候变化是对人类健康的最大威胁之一。在经历了有记录以来最热的年份之一(2019年)以及几乎各大洲都发生野火之后,2021年政府间气候变化专门委员会和2021年气候变化倒计时将其认定为对人类和健康未来的红色预警,这并不奇怪。此外,就在2021年11月缔约方会议(COP26)之前,世界卫生组织发布了其特别报告,全球卫生界在报告中为政策制定者和政府提供了10项建议,以采取更绿色、更清洁和更可持续的行动,确保实现健康和公平的未来。因此,迫切需要社会和环境责任的卫生专业教育加快步伐,将气候变化、地球健康和/或可持续医疗保健纳入课程。教师和学生已经开展了大量工作。由于我们共同参与其中,学生和教师可以合作,并在已开展的工作基础上继续努力,以确保大学承担起社会和环境责任。