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Shifting Towards Sustainable Diets – how dietitians can help

by Elizabeth Atherton | Jul 25, 2016 | Blog, Climate & Environment

As we are faced with an increasingly uncertain food future, there is an urgent need to take a sustainable ecological approach to our food system. Dietitians can and should play an important role in this emerging area.

Waking up to the planetary health emergency: let’s divest from fossil fuels.

by Medact Staff | Jan 9, 2015 | Blog, Climate & Environment

Zoe is a Medact member. She is also part of Divest London – a network hub for the global grassroots movement pushing institutions to divest from the fossil fuel industry – and a supporter of the Fossil Free Health campaign. I work as an Accident and Emergency doctor...

BMJ Editorial: IPCC report shows the need for “radical and transformative change”

by Medact Staff | Mar 29, 2014 | News, Climate & Environment

In light of the forthcoming IPCC report, an editorial in the BMJ, written by Fiona Godlee (BMJ Editor), Hugh Montgomery (UCL), Sabaratnam Arulkumaran (BMA President) and David McCoy (Medact Chair), has called for immediate and transformative action on climate change....

Rehabilitation Under Fire – health care in Iraq 2003-7

by Medact Staff | Nov 21, 2008 | Reports, Peace & Security

‘A little understood, unfamiliar war’ – US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, resignation speech, November 8, 2006 Medact’s five earlier Iraq reports presented data on health and health services, and thus helped to fill some noteworthy gaps (Medact 2002, 2003, 2004;...

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