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Halonen JI, Erhola M, Furman E, Haahtela T, Jousilahti P, Barouki R, Bergman Å, Billo NE, Fuller R, Haines A, Kogevinas M, Kolossa-Gehring M, Krauze K, Lanki T, Vicente JL, Messerli P, Nieuwenhuijsen M, Paloniemi R, Peters A, Posch KH, Timonen P, Vermeulen R, Virtanen SM, Bousquet J, Antó JM. A call for urgent action to safeguard our planet and our health in line with the helsinki declaration. Environ Res 2021; 193:110600. [PMID: 33307082 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.110600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2020] [Revised: 12/03/2020] [Accepted: 12/04/2020] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
Abstract
In 2015, the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission launched a report introducing a novel approach called Planetary Health and proposed a concept, a strategy and a course of action. To discuss the concept of Planetary Health in the context of Europe, a conference entitled: "Europe That Protects: Safeguarding Our Planet, Safeguarding Our Health" was held in Helsinki in December 2019. The conference participants concluded with a need for action to support Planetary Health during the 2020s. The Helsinki Declaration emphasizes the urgency to act as scientific evidence shows that human activities are causing climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, overuse of natural resources and pollution. They threaten the health and safety of human kind. Global, regional, national, local and individual initiatives are called for and multidisciplinary and multisectorial actions and measures are needed. A framework for an action plan is suggested that can be modified for local needs. Accordingly, a shift from fragmented approaches to policy and practice towards systematic actions will promote human health and health of the planet. Systems thinking will feed into conserving nature and biodiversity, and into halting climate change. The Planetary Health paradigm ‒ the health of human civilization and the state of natural systems on which it depends ‒ must become the driver for all policies.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jaana I Halonen
- Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
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- Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland
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- Skin and Allergy Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Université de Paris, Inserm UMR S-1124, 75006, Paris, France
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- Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; School of Science and Technology, MTM, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden
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- Global Alliance Against Chronic Respiratory Disease Finland, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Public Health, Environments and Society and Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain; CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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- European Regional Centre for Ecohydrology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Łódź, Poland
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- Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland; University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Wyss Academy for Nature, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain; CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany; Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Netherlands; Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland; Faculty of Social Sciences, Unit of Health Sciences, Tampere University; Center for Child Health Research, Tampere University and Tampere University Hospital; and The Science Center of Pirkanmaa Hospital District, Tampere, Finland
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montpellier, 34295, Montpellier, France; Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin, 10117, Berlin, Germany; Berlin Institute of Health, Comprehensive Allergy Center, Department of Dermatology and Allergy, 10178 Berlin, Germany
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- ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain; CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain; IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain.
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Halonen JI, Erhola M, Furman E, Haahtela T, Jousilahti P, Barouki R, Bergman Å, Billo NE, Fuller R, Haines A, Kogevinas M, Kolossa-Gehring M, Krauze K, Lanki T, Vicente JL, Messerli P, Nieuwenhuijsen M, Paloniemi R, Peters A, Posch KH, Timonen P, Vermeulen R, Virtanen SM, Bousquet J, Antó JM. The Helsinki Declaration 2020: Europe that protects. Lancet Planet Health 2020; 4:e503-e505. [PMID: 33159874 DOI: 10.1016/s2542-5196(20)30242-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2020] [Accepted: 09/24/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Jaana I Halonen
- Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00270, Finland.
| | | | - Eeva Furman
- Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Tari Haahtela
- Skin and Allergy Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Finland
| | - Pekka Jousilahti
- Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00270, Finland
| | | | - Åke Bergman
- Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; School of Science and Technology, Man-Technology-Environment MTM Research Centre, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden
| | - Nils E Billo
- Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Disease Finland, Helsinki, Finland
| | | | - Andrew Haines
- Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, and Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
| | - Manolis Kogevinas
- ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain
| | | | - Kinga Krauze
- European Regional Centre for Ecohydrology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Łódź, Poland
| | - Timo Lanki
- Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00270, Finland; University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | | | - Peter Messerli
- Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Wyss Academy for Nature, University of Bern, Switzerland
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- ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre Munich, German Research Centre for Health and Environment, Neuherberg, Germany; Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands; Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00270, Finland; Faculty of Social Sciences, Unit of Health Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland; Centre for Child Health Research, Tampere University and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland; The Science Centre of Pirkanmaa Hospital District, Tampere, Finland
| | - Jean Bousquet
- University Hospital Montpellier, Montpellier, France; Charité University Medicine Berlin, Free University of Berlin and Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Berlin Institute of Health, Comprehensive Allergy Center, Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Berlin, Germany
| | - Josep M Antó
- ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain; Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute IMIM, Barcelona, Spain.
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