The aim of the Task Force on HPH and the Environment is assist the medical community in mitigating the effects of climate change and cultivate the resilience of health care systems to climate change. We provide evidence-based findings and work to visualize environment-related health promotion issues in existing HPH models and tools. Our group represents a broad range of research, practice, and policy expertise in public health, health promotion, climate change, environmental sustainability, and protection.
This Population Health series explores the concept of population health and the role a hospital can play in producing population health. The series also offers local and international examples of health systems that have reached beyond their walls to improve the health of their communities.
Recognizing that planetary health touches every part of our organization and requires action from all departments and individuals, leadership and partnership are key to making the changes outlined in this strategy. This first strategic plan for planetary health is a living document with iterative goals that we will continue to shape and grow as we take this journey, face challenges and identify new opportunities.
This toolkit includes a menu of indicators, categorised by 11 areas of anchor activity. To support the practice application of the indicators the toolkit also includes their potential ease of measurement, and their suitability for ongoing collection.
A Report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity is the first in a series of consensus reports to emerge from the National Academy of Medicine’s Culture of Health Program.
The framework outlines the project partners’ roles in climate change and health adaptation and presents recommendations that correspond to the risks identified in the vulnerability and capacity assessment as well as during engagement with our many collaborators and advisors. This framework is meant to communicate health authority priorities to internal and external audiences, and to enable action planning at the program level within and between each of the four partner organizations.
Health inequalities are, in large part, the product of inequalities in the conditions in which we are born, grow, live, work and age – the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). This learning report focusses on innovative approaches taken by four provider trusts within the UCLPartners geography that are acting on the SDOH within their healthcare settings, and common lessons from their work.
