The Lancet Planetary Health

📢NEW EAT-Lancet Planetary Health special collection exploring the potential and complexities of transitioning to a healthier, more just & sustainable food system.

Read @danielmasondcroz.bsky.social & MHerrero's comment for a peek at the main insights bit.ly/47El9rl

Full collection bit.ly/49meWTF

The world produces enough food, yet billions lack access to healthy & sustainable diets. A new EAT–Lancet report presents a science-based approach to improve health, safeguard our environment & provide for a projected 9.6 billion people by 2050.

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Priority climate and health modelling needs Climate and health modelling is necessary for improving understanding of the current and future distribution and timing of climate-related health risks. However, underinvestment in this area has limit...

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan.... Priority needs to increase the validity, utility, and policy relevance of climate and health models include multinational centers of excellence, scenario elaboration, model inter comparisons, assessing adaptation effectiveness, strengthening research capacity.

The health, environmental, and cost implications of providing healthy and sustainable school meals for every child by 2030: a global modelling study Universal school meal coverage could make important contributions to improving children’s health, the food security of their families, and the sustainability of food systems. However, dedicated policy...

New in @thelancetplanet.bsky.social:"We estimated that providing meals in line with recommendations for healthy and sustainable patterns could reduce environmental impacts on average by 26% for flexitarian meals, 43% for #vegetarian meals and 52% for #vegan meals."
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Dietary quality and environmental footprint of health-care foodservice: a quantitative analysis using dietary indices and lifecycle assessment data Meals served in health-care institutions such as hospitals and nursing homes might compromise both short-term and long-term health of patients and residents and contribute unfavourably to the institut...

NEW: Food in a selection of healthcare facilities in Germany provides neither the best for patient health nor for sustainability.

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Anthropogenic #ClimateChange 🌎 🌍 drove increases in UK summer heat 🌡️ mortality. Yet, without aerosol cooling this increase would have been even more drastic! Check out our #ClimateAttribution & #Epidemiology 📊 study in @thelancetplanet.bsky.social, led by Kai Wan for more!
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🚨In our new paper (doi.org/10.1016/S254... in @thelancetplanet.bsky.social, we develop the Healthy Urban Design Index (HUDI) to gauge the performance of 917 cities in 4 key domains in #Europe using #opensource data.

We hope the HUDI can be a starting point for informing #sustainable #urban design.

The True Cost Of Bottom Trawling In Europe Bottom trawling in seas globally emits as much carbon as aviation, and in Europe costs society up to €11 billion annually while governments subsidize it with €1·3 billion. Recent research reveals the ...

@vijayshankar.bsky.social reports for The Lancet Planetary Health on the true cost of bottom trawling in Europe, a practice that emits globally as much carbon as aviation.

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Lots of very interesting articles in the new issue of The Lancet Planetary Health, many about the relation of Planetary Health with Human Health. 🧪🌍🤒
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Supporting medical science in the USA The pursuit of rigorous medical science is not compatible with capitulation to government demands aimed at weaponising and eroding science. On April 14, Edwin R Martin Jr, the Trump-appointed interim ...

Editorial of The Lancet today: "The pursuit of rigorous medical science is not compatible with capitulation to government demands aimed at weaponising and eroding science"

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The greenhouse gas emissions of pharmaceutical consumption and production: an input–output analysis over time and across global supply chains Greenhouse gas emissions related to pharmaceuticals have risen substantially and are likely to continue to rise without concerted and coordinated action. Pharmacies and researchers should investigate ...

The greenhouse gas emissions of pharmaceutical consumption and production: an input–output analysis over time and across global supply chains #pharmsky
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Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet Regional Health - Africa Do you enjoy using science to drive change in the world? Would you like to develop and launch an online-only gold open access journal for The Lancet. About our Team The Lancet Regional Health -Africa ...

✨ Exciting new Lancet role ✨

This autumn, our Group is launching an OA journal dedicated to the unique health challenges on the African continent: The Lancet Regional Health—Africa 🌍

To lead this important endeavour, we are searching for an Editor-in-Chief. Find out more & apply ⤵️

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Researchers make the case for shift from economic growth to human well-being within planetary limits For more than a century, nations have measured societal gains in terms of economic growth. But a new review published in the journal Lancet Planetary Health in January 2025 questions that convention. ...

🆕 Researchers make the case for shift from economic growth to human well-being within planetary limits

New study by our researchers @jasonhickel.bsky.social and Giorgos Kallis, published in @thelancetplanet.bsky.social

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Our new issue is out!

We have some exciting content this month: articles on air quality & mortality, on a green anesthesia initiative, reviews on #gutmicrobiome, the public health cobenefits of net zero emission strategies and more.

Read #openaccess
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Climate change effects on the human gut microbiome: complex mechanisms and global inequities Ongoing global climate change is affecting all aspects of life on Earth, including human health. The gut microbiota is an important determinant of health in humans and other organisms, but how climate...

How will climate change affect human gut microbiomes? In a new @thelancetplanet.bsky.social paper, I analyze the main mechanisms — changes in food availability & nutritional quality, environmental microbiomes, enteric pathogens, increased host stress — and their interactions.
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Kevin Jean & colleagues reviewed the public health co-benefits of strategies consistent with net-zero emissions.
These benefits could even outweigh the costs of those strategies.

Read a thread in French by @kvn-jean.bsky.social or the original paper in our journal www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Associations between weather extremes and faecal contamination along pathogen transmission pathways in rural Bangladeshi households: a prospective observational study In rural Bangladesh, measures to control enteric infections following weather extremes should focus on water treatment and safe storage to reduce contamination of drinking water and food stored at hom...

In our Jan issue

A prospective observational study looking at associations between weather extremes & faecal contamination in rural Bangladeshi households

Measures should focus on
1️⃣water treatment
2️⃣safe storage
3️⃣reducing exposure to surface waters.

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Sand and dust storms: a growing global health threat calls for international health studies to support policy action Sand and dust storms increasingly threaten global environmental and public health. To date, 150 countries are directly affected, with more than 100 classified as non-dust source regions. With climate ...

In our Jan issue

a view point about sand &dust storms

An urgent call for international, collaborative, & multidisciplinary health studies considering sand & dust storm exposure characteristics using scientifically robust epidemiological methods.

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#planetaryhealth

We are happy to have joined the Bluesky community!

We will highlight some of our most exciting content here.
In the meantime, you can read all the articles in our January issue #openaccess at www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#planetaryhealth #climate