Intro

Question 1

Why does Planetery health matter

Answer 1

Humanity has made tremendous public health gains by traditional measures such as decreasing global child mortality and increasing life expectancy

Overall life

Question 2

Global Paradox

Answer 2

Human health and wellbeing and plantery health trend in opposite directions

Question 3

Planetary boundaries (9)

Answer 3

Metrics developed to moniter te critical thresholds of the Earth through these boundaries

Question 4

Antrhopocene

Answer 4

a term used to describe the current period in Earth’s history when humans have had a significant impact on the planet

Era of significant on Earths environment

Question 5

Global North/Global South

Answer 5

Those ethat are more economically privelaged (North) vs economically disadvantaged (osouth)

Most of research is done by Global North based on problems in South but are published in the South

Question 6

What is Planetary Health

Answer 6

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.” (Lancet, 2015)

Question 7

Defining Features of the SDGs

Answer 7

Align with a planetary perspective on health.
Foci: social determinants of health, poverty, and sustainability.
Address the health of persons of all ages.
Target health risks of all countries.

Question 8

What are Determinants of Health

Answer 8

The biological, behavioral, social, environmental, political, and other factors that influence the health status of individuals and populations”
(Jacobsen, 2024, p. 4).

Question 9

Global burden of disease

Answer 9

The sum of illness and death globally