Category: Climate Health

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A big budget win for the health sector after a decade of climate advocacy | CAHA

In October 2022, the government committed to a first tranche of funding to commence the National Health and Climate Strategy development. Thanks to Fiona Armstrong of CAHA, who inspired many, including myself as the representative of AFMW to be part of a little bit of history here. We each generously lent our time, expertise and intellect to offer advice, and to contribute to this important outcome.

November 8, 2022

Logos of organisations supporting the COP27 Health Community recommendations

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COP27 Health Community recommendations | CAHA

The CAHA (Climate and Health Alliance) has co-developed and signed on to a set of recommendations for governments ahead of COP27.

October 27, 2022

CAHA member @drmsimonis in action outside Vic parliment house

Climate and Health Alliance Tweet re Health workers delivering your letter to Parliament House

Well done @HealthyFuturez on this great action today, and leading a big coalition of health orgs to call for 100% renewables for VIC by 2030.

September 29, 2022

Health workers deliver your letter to Parliament House!

The Australian Federation of Medical Women sees climate change as the greatest risk to health. As we have seen with natural disasters, climate change has even more negative implications for women, as they are care-givers to children and elders, have less money, less access to fewer resources all of which are exacerbated when they are pregnant or have a chronic condition or are from culturally and linguistically diverse groups, refugees and First Nations people.

September 22, 2022

“We are Women. We have a voice. We are change-makers.”

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ENGAGING CALD Women in gender and climate change – “We are Women. We have a voice. We are changemakers.” [Recap]

[RECAP] Proud to be invited to talk gender and climate change with my Greek friends at Food for Thought on Sunday 22nd May regarding the agency of CALD women and how we can influence our communities to advocate for renewable energy and the health of the planet. Founder of Food For Thought (FFT), a Greek Australian Women’s Group, Varvara Athanasiou-Ioannou and FFT patron Professor Vasso Apostolopoulos and I have enjoyed sharing our ideas on a variety of issues.

May 26, 2022

Resource - Reducing Single-use Plastics in Healthcare

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Reducing SUP in health – Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA)

Another good resources from from our friends at CAHA (Climate and Health Alliance) – a resource for healthcare workers on how to reduce single use plastics in healthcare!. They have also summarised into a one page fact sheet. CAHA! They’re doing the work for so many of us. We just need to apply these recommendations.

April 11, 2022

Educational Resource: Mapping Climate Change and Health into the Medical Curriculum

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Educational Resource: Mapping Climate Change and Health into the Medical Curriculum – DEA

DEA medical students and doctors co-developed a curriculum resource that maps climate change and health to the classically used organ-system teaching structure. It is an easy-to-use tool for medical educators to locate clinically relevant teaching points in each major body system.

April 11, 2022

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Colleges sign open letter to government to take action to mitigate climate change highlighting health effects

As published by RACP, the Australian peak medical bodies co-signed a Climate change letter to MPs highlighting health impacts. Read the open letter here.

March 28, 2022

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Climate Change is a Health Crisis – Health Messages from the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (CAHA)

This briefing document prepared by CAHA (Climate and Health Alliance) provides a summary of the key findings related to health and wellbeing from the February 2022 IPCC report. The CAHA report “Climate Change is a Health Crisis – Health Messages from the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report on Climate Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability” can be accessed here.

March 22, 2022

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The Green Electricity Guide by Greenpeace & RACGP – Climate change and health – Practice posters

Our friends at Healthy Futures have put together some excellent resources we can share with our members and on our website. As doctors who are trying to decarbonise our own practices, switching to a clean energy producer is a good initial step and the Green Electricity Guide by Greenpeace is an excellent resource. RACGP has produced posters GPs/doctors can post in their clinics. Please share with your colleagues and posts in your rooms.

February 15, 2022