Global Health and Planetary Health: Perspectives for a transition to a more sustainable world post COVID-19

Gabriela di Giulio, Eliseu Alves Waldman, João Nunes, Paulo Marchiori Buss, Patrícia Jaime, Tereza Campelo, Helena Ribeiro

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Abstract

The conceptual manuscript discusses interfaces between academic and practical fields of Global Health and Planetary Health, shedding light on some critical perspectives of cumulative and synergistic causes of global crises, and effects on health and food security, on human rights, on migration, and on environment. Concepts of Global Health and Planetary Health and the path for the Sustainable Development Goals -SDG in the context of the Syndemy of Global Crisis, in particular the COVID-19 pandemic, are presented. COVID-19 lessons highlight challenges of infectious diseases and pandemics of the crisis of food insecurity, and of climate emergency. The manuscript advocates for an innovative approach that simultaneously broader awareness of the interconnected problems and of their complex causes and calls for emancipatory knowledge to face urgent challenges for a transdisciplinary research agenda aiming to tackle enormous planetary problems brought by the Anthropocene. It calls for practical solutions, with examples of some nature-based. It highlights the need of a collective reflection on a viable path to promote changes for a more sustainable, equitable, and adaptive future, bridging gaps from Global and Planetary Health.
Original languageEnglish
JournalCiencia & saude coletiva
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Publication statusPublished - 30 Oct 2021

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