Health and the Environment

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Health and the Environment

• Lindley Owen
• Consultant in Public Health
• Cornwall Isles of Scilly PCT

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Global health impacts

• Heat waves, flooding and other direct effects of
  climate chaos
• Disease patterns changing quickly
• Crop Failure
• Water shortages
• Mass Migration
• Resource Wars
• Economic Collapse
• Ecosystem Collapse

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• in a global context of energy shortage
  inequity, the silence of the medical profession
  would be criminal

Richard Horton, the editor of the Lancet
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Health co-benefits

• Greater social cohesion
• Reduced motor transport
• Less meat production
• Local food

• lt Mental health
• lt Active travel
• lt Clean air
• lt Cardio-vascular fitness
• lt Social networks
• lt Skilling and re-skilling
• gt Cancer
• gt Noise pollution
• gt Accidents

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Change4Life is a society-wide movement that aims
to prevent people from becoming overweight by
encouraging them to eat better and move more.
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