Insider: Employees' well-being, diversity, and equity are key components of sustainability
Sustainable goals include improving people's well-being, health, and equity. As companies transform, they need to bring employees along...
ICSW staff
- Oct 3
- 1 min
Educating health care professionals on the importance of proper diets. An online course on nutrition
Two ICSW members, Dr. Savino Sciascia and Winston Gilcrease (Project Director), were part of a team of experts in co-authoring a paper...
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ICSW staff
- Sep 6
- 1 min
Air Pollution from Global Health to Individual Risk Factor—Is It Time for Enviropathies?
A new paper written by ICSW members and published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. While the link...
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ICSW staff
- Aug 31
- 1 min
Book recommendation: Social Inequality and Public Health
Check out Chapter 4 in the book, Social Inequality and Public Health Chapter title: Four Reinventing healthy and sustainable communities:...
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ICSW staff
- Aug 12
- 1 min
Traffic-related air pollution linked to higher health care costs
Long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution is connected to higher health care costs, according to a new study. The study,...
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ICSW staff
- Aug 12
- 1 min
Scientists offer blueprint for sustainable redesign of food systems
New research describes food systems designed not by the logic of growth such as efficiency and extraction, but by principles of...
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ICSW staff
- Aug 1
- 1 min
UN declares a healthy, sustainable environment is a human right
On July 28, 2022, member states of the United Nations General Assembly, the highest UN body, overwhelmingly voted to adopt a historic...
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ICSW staff
- Jul 20
- 1 min
How sustainability initiatives can mitigate climate risks and advance health equity: Deloitte
As climate change accelerates, human health will suffer, experts say. Climate change also can exacerbate health inequity and increase the...
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ICSW staff
- Jun 28
- 1 min
Research adds to knowledge on nature and human well-being
Time spent in nature benefits humans in myriad ways, with plenty of research literature to support its positive effects on well-being....
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ICSW staff
- Apr 6
- 1 min
Sustainability and Well-Being: A Happy Synergy
Investigating the nexus of sustainability and well-being, Christopher Barrington-Leigh says the sources of lasting improvements in...
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ICSW staff
- Feb 22
- 1 min
Building sustainable wellbeing economies, societies, and the rest of nature
Australian National University hosted a fascinating presentation by Professor Bob Costanza, who has been a strong advocate for...
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ICSW staff
- Feb 17
- 1 min
Stanford researchers map how people in cities get a health boost from nature
Lack of physical activity in the U.S. results in $117 billion a year in related health care costs and leads to 3.2 million deaths...
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ICSW staff
- Jan 12
- 1 min
How Health Systems Are Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change
The human and health impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly hard to ignore. Harvard Business Review Climate changes strikes...
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ICSW staff
- Nov 18, 2021
- 1 min
Win–wins for health and climate — new report
The imperative of climate action to protect human health in Europe: Opportunities for adaptation to reduce the impacts, and for...
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ICSW staff
- Oct 19, 2021
- 1 min
Is air pollution affecting disease activity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus?
Newly published article in the European Journal of Rheumatology, authored by several ICSW members Access the article here #humanhealth...
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ICSW staff
- Aug 9, 2021
- 1 min
In Madagascar, climate change means public health peril
A Harvard Public Health Discussion with Christopher Golden, Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Planetary Health at Harvard University...
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ICSW staff
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Environmental protection and human health: time for a planetary health watch!
The Lancet: "The scale of human impact is such that in many areas it threatens the functioning of the natural systems that sustain the...
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ICSW staff
- Mar 18, 2021
- 1 min
A Low-Carbon Future Could Improve Global Health and Save Money
Interesting insights from Jonathan A. Patz, MD, MPH, author of "A Low-Carbon Future Could Improve Global Health and Save Money" The 25th...
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