Sustainability, Environmental Change and Health
Deakin Health Economics, Determinants of Health, Obesity PreventionTo profile the Institute and its partners’ research capabilities in sustainability, environmental change, and health.
Challenge
To build an evidence informed health sector capable of responding to the health impacts of environmental change.
Solution
To expand multi-disciplinary research collaborations between Institute for Health Transformation researchers, Deakin University Faculty of Health and other Institute partners on sustainability, environmental change, health and healthcare.
Impact
To achieve real-world impact by creating and exchanging new and high-quality knowledge; by making that knowledge available to our sector and industry partners and working with them to translate it into action; by strengthening evidence-based policy-making; and by supporting the best investment decisions on sustainability and health.
Links
Environmental Workplace Mental Health Promotion: Short Report
Climate change and health promotion in Australia: Navigating political, policy, advocacy and research challenges
One planet regions: planetary health at the local level
The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report
Health Care Sustainability Metrics: Building A Safer, Low-Carbon Health System
Health care, overconsumption and uneconomic growth: A conceptual framework
Can healthcare adapt to a world of tightening ecological constraints? Challenges on the road to a post-growth future
Incorporating environmental impacts into the economic evaluation of health care systems: perspectives from ecological economics
Life and Health Reimagined – Getting back to work
Associations Between Sub-Clinical Markers of Cardiometabolic Risk and Exposure to Residential Indoor Air Pollutants in Healthy Adults in Perth, Western Australia: A Study Protocol
Media
Mental health and bushfires
Government inaction on the climate crisis a danger for health: MJA-Lancet report
Climate grief expected to be widespread soon but it's still not openly acknowledged
Wasteful healthcare: double burden on patients and environment
Healing Health podcast: Is there such a thing as too much medicine?