Planetary Health
The World Health Organization has identified climate change as the greatest threat facing global health in the 21st century, with direct implications for the social and environmental determinants of health. The growing field of Planetary Health is focussed on understanding and taking action on the human health impacts of the earth’s natural systems.
Planetary Health is “the achievement of the highest attainable standard of health, wellbeing, and equity worldwide through judicious attention to the human systems—political, economic, and social—that shape the future of humanity and the Earth's natural systems that define the safe environmental limits within which humanity can flourish. Put simply, planetary health is the health of human civilisation and the state of the natural systems on which it depends” (Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on Planetary Health, 2015)