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Week 10: Planetary Health - Coggle Diagram
Week 10: Planetary Health
Municipalities play a key role in health promotion through:
Human Development
Suporting individuals to reach their full potential
Sustainable Development
Social and Cultural Development
Livable Urban Development
Economic Development
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities created a set of indicators to measure, monitor and report on social, economic and environmental trends in Canada's largest cities and communities.
Demographic and background information
Affordable, appropriate housing
Civic engagement
Community and social infrastructure
Education
Employment and local economy
Natural environment
Personal and community health
Personal financial security
Personalsafety
Municipal governments cannot make cities healthier alone, it takes a multisectoral approach.
Connect with Urban Planning to incolve initiatives that integrate social planning and community connection for mental health promotion
Engagement with Social Entrepreneurship - economic growth can't be central to health policy, but social entrepreneurship can provide an opportunity to do business for the greater good (trading as income, profits for community benefit, assetts for community benefit, social justice focus)
Planetary Health Commission put it, “we have been mortgaging the health of future generations to realise economic and development gains in the present”
The built environment is tightly intertwined with out health. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has shaped architecture and other aspects of the built environment to reduce infection.
Digital transformation has shaped how dense we need cities to be, and shaped how people commute
Public spaces have changed - people use them differently, want to connect outdoors in safe environments, want flexibility in spaces
Housing has changed. Considerations for the comforts required at home, distance to work and ammenities, space and density, air/water/service quality
Office Spaces have changed in how people work and how offices look. Digital work, AI and remote work are more popular.
The sustainable Development Goals pose a number of ambitious goals for human, social and environmental development. SDGs serve as an important health promotion document, but some implications should be considered:
The SDGs support a very biomedical framing of health and disease
The SDGs do not adequately describe how health needs and experiences are shaped by gender, sex, class, culture, etc.
The use of the term empowerment is used with various meanings and true intentions. ie) the idea that empowerment can be created through the reduction of disease burden which is a very reductionist idea
History is downplayed and the future is the focus. this can make it feel intangible.