From instability to sustainability: the path to healthy people on a healthy planet

The intersection of environment and health is a powerful sweet spot where our efforts can yield outsized positive impacts on our lives now and into the future.

Many win-win policies allow us to save lives now through pollution reductions, improved physical activity, access to nature, and plant-rich diets, writes Courtney Howard. Unsplash photograph by Jon Flobrant

Opinion

BY COURTNEY HOWARD

May 17, 2023

Looking at Great Slave Lake while on maternity leave from work as an emergency physician in 2012, I became curious about the local health impacts of climate change. I also wondered if the medical literature had any answers for concerns expressed to me by Dene elders about po...

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