Doctors call for stricter environmental monitoring
DOCTORS have called for a national agency to be set up to monitor and enforce consistent health and environmental standards relating to coal and coal seam gas projects.
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Doctors for the Environment Australia
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GP activist pioneer honoured at gala dinner
A LEADING GP and academic has used a dinner honouring one of Australia’s earliest GP activists to echo a call made almost a century ago for an approach to care encompassing social, political and environmental problems with the potential to impact population health.
Doctors await EPA ruling on coal station
THE group behind Australia’s first doctor-driven appeal against an Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) permit for a coal power station is anxiously awaiting a ruling after the matter went before the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT).
Medical students to participate in Code Green Week
THE government’s push to introduce a carbon price will receive a boost from Australian medical students this week, when they take a break from study to participate in Code Green Week . The event is a joint national initiative of student members of Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) and the Australian Medical Students' Association (AMSA), and aims to educate health professionals and the public about the health threats resulting from climate change. DEA student president Rohan Church said the carbon price was an essential public health measure to combat climate-related illness ...
Booming population bad for health: Dick Smith
ENTREPRENEUR Dick Smith has continued his campaign to highlight the potential problems the world’s growing population could have on health and environmental sustainability with the release this week of his book, Dick Smith’s Population Crisis . The book discusses the possible implications of unchecked population growth, including food, water and power shortages, and points out that Australia – which has one of the fastest growing populations of any developed nation – would be deeply affected. “Our present system is a classic Ponzi scheme… That is, many politicians state that we need to continually grow in population ...
Dick Smith joins doctors’ sustainability campaign
ENTREPRENEUR Dick Smith has thrown his weight behind a doctor-led campaign highlighting the health-related dangers of unchecked population growth. The campaign, launched this week by advocacy group Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA), will see posters sent to more than 20,000 GPs with this edition of MO . The aim is to promote sustainable levels of population growth and resource consumption. Mr Smith has been a vocal advocate for a more sustainable approach to population growth, rather than the “Big Australia” vision touted by former prime minister Kevin Rudd. He praised doctors for taking ...
Follow the leader
Former RACGP president Professor Michael Kidd is tackling the problems of climate change in his new role as chair of Doctors for the Environment Australia. Shannon McKenzie reports. CLIMATE change, according to Professor Michael Kidd, is not the next big health issue. That is because climate change already is one of the greatest health challenges of our time, affecting the most fundamental determinants of human health: our food, air and water. Over the past few years, the climate change agenda has steadily gained currency across all sectors of Australian society, and Australian GPs, notes Professor ...
Kidd new champion for green doctors
GREEN lobby group Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) has been set a busy agenda for 2009, courtesy of its new chair, Professor Michael Kidd. Former RACGP president Professor Kidd told MO he planned to spend next year expanding and strengthening the DEA’s working relationships with governments, environmental and medical organisations, and the media. Establishing links with similar international organisations would also be important, he said. “We want to share educational resources we have developed, particularly with our colleagues in lower and middle income nations.” He would also be working to grow and ...