The 2023 report of the MJA-Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: sustainability needed in Australia's health care sector.

Autor: Beggs PJ; Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW., Trueck S; Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW., Linnenluecke MK; University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW., Bambrick H; National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT., Capon AG; Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC., Hanigan IC; Curtin University, Perth, WA., Arriagada NB; Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS., Cross TJ; University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW., Friel S; Australian National University, Canberra, ACT., Green D; Climate Change Research Centre and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, UNSW, Sydney, NSW., Heenan M; Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, Sax Institute, Sydney, NSW.; The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, NSW., Jay O; Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW., Kennard H; Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA., Malik A; University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW., McMichael C; University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC., Stevenson M; Transport, Health and Urban Design (THUD) Research Lab, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC., Vardoulakis S; National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT., Dang TN; University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam., Garvey G; University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD., Lovett R; National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT.; Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, ACT., Matthews V; University Centre for Rural Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW., Phung D; University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD., Woodward AJ; University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ., Romanello MB; Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK., Zhang Y; University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Medical journal of Australia [Med J Aust] 2024 Apr 01; Vol. 220 (6), pp. 282-303. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Mar 24.
DOI: 10.5694/mja2.52245
Abstrakt: The MJA-Lancet Countdown on health and climate change in Australia was established in 2017 and produced its first national assessment in 2018 and annual updates in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. It examines five broad domains: health hazards, exposures and impacts; adaptation, planning and resilience for health; mitigation actions and health co-benefits; economics and finance; and public and political engagement. In this, the sixth report of the MJA-Lancet Countdown, we track progress on an extensive suite of indicators across these five domains, accessing and presenting the latest data and further refining and developing our analyses. Our results highlight the health and economic costs of inaction on health and climate change. A series of major flood events across the four eastern states of Australia in 2022 was the main contributor to insured losses from climate-related catastrophes of $7.168 billion - the highest amount on record. The floods also directly caused 23 deaths and resulted in the displacement of tens of thousands of people. High red meat and processed meat consumption and insufficient consumption of fruit and vegetables accounted for about half of the 87 166 diet-related deaths in Australia in 2021. Correction of this imbalance would both save lives and reduce the heavy carbon footprint associated with meat production. We find signs of progress on health and climate change. Importantly, the Australian Government released Australia's first National Health and Climate Strategy, and the Government of Western Australia is preparing a Health Sector Adaptation Plan. We also find increasing action on, and engagement with, health and climate change at a community level, with the number of electric vehicle sales almost doubling in 2022 compared with 2021, and with a 65% increase in coverage of health and climate change in the media in 2022 compared with 2021. Overall, the urgency of substantial enhancements in Australia's mitigation and adaptation responses to the enormous health and climate change challenge cannot be overstated. Australia's energy system, and its health care sector, currently emit an unreasonable and unjust proportion of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. As the Lancet Countdown enters its second and most critical phase in the leadup to 2030, the depth and breadth of our assessment of health and climate change will be augmented to increasingly examine Australia in its regional context, and to better measure and track key issues in Australia such as mental health and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing.
(© 2024 The Authors. Medical Journal of Australia published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of AMPCo Pty Ltd.)
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