Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health

BMJ Paediatr Open. 2021 Sep 5;5(1):e001266. doi: 10.1136/bmjpo-2021-001266. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Lukoye Atwoli¹, Abdullah H Baqui², Thomas Benfield³, Raffaella Bosurgi⁴, Fiona Godlee⁵, Stephen Hancocks⁶, Richard Horton⁷, Laurie Laybourn-Langton⁸, Carlos Augusto Monteiro⁹, Ian Norman¹⁰, Kirsten Patrick¹¹, Nigel Praities¹², Marcel Gm Olde Rikkert¹³, Eric J Rubin¹⁴, Peush Sahni¹⁵, Richard Smith⁸, Nicholas J Talley¹⁶, Sue Turale¹⁷, Damián Vázquez¹⁸

Affiliations

¹ East African Medical Journal, Nairobi, Kenya.
² Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
³ Danish Medical Journal, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁴ PLOS Medicine, Cambridge, UK.
⁵ The BMJ, London, UK.
⁶ British Dental Journal, London, UK.
⁷ The Lancet, London, UK.
⁸ UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, London, UK.
⁹ Revista de Saúde Pública, São Paulo, Brazil.
¹⁰ International Journal of Nursing Studies, London, UK.
¹¹ CMAJ, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
¹² Pharmaceutical Journal, London, UK.
¹³ Dutch Journal of Medicine, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
¹⁴ NEJM, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
¹⁵ National Medical Journal of India, New Delhi, India.
¹⁶ Medical Journal of Australia, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
¹⁷ International Nursing Review, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹⁸ Pan American Journal of Public Health, Washington, DC, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: health care; health services research; outcome and process assessment; outcome assessment.

MeSH terms

Biodiversity*
Temperature