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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.
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 ...
GFC blamed for fertility downturn
THE global financial crisis may be responsible for a drop in the number of Australian babies born last year. After increasing in recent years to a rate of 1.96 babies per reproductive woman in 2008, the national fertility rate dropped to 1.90 in 2009, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data. “I think we could attribute all of it to the global financial crisis,” said reproductive specialist Professor Rob Norman, director of the Robinson Institute at the University of Adelaide. Australia’s fertility rate peaked at 3.5 during the ‘baby boomer’ years in the late ...
Birth control a climate saviour?
UNIVERSAL access to contraception could make a major contribution to combating climate change, British experts say. Writing in the BMJ , they argue that given “each new UK birth will be responsible for 160 times more greenhouse gas emissions... than a new birth in Ethiopia,” doctors in developed countries should promote contraception and smaller family sizes to save the planet. “Population and family planning seem taboo words.... Isn’t contraception the medical profession’s prime contribution in all countries?” A seven-fold increase in global human population over the last 210 years had led to “unprecedented food shortages, ...