No point keeping head in the sand about major global environmental problems. Environmental problems amplify existing Global Health Problems. This is the presentation of the WONCA Environmental Working Group that was held in the World Preconference in Prague in June 2013.

1. WONCA
Environmental Working Group
VASCO DA GAMA

2. No Point keeping head in the sand about
major global environmental problems

3. Environmental Problems amplify
existing Global Health Problems

4. “No man is an island, entire of itself”
John Donne (1572-1631)

5. Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary General
RIO+20 Summit Earth Summit
• "This is not the end of the
everything, it is the start," the
secretary general said. "For too long
we have tried to consume our way to
prosperity. Look at the cost: polluted
lands and ocean, climate
change, growing scarcity of resources
from food to land to fresh
water, rampant inequality”
• "We need to invent a new model; a
model that offers growth and social
inclusion... that is more respectful of
the planet's finite resources.”
• "Nature has been kind to human
beings, but we have not been kind to
nature."

6. "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we
used when we created them." ~ Albert Einstein
www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/bush_stupid.jpg

7. Reality of Climate Change
Australian Medical Students
Association video on climate change

9. Medical Students and Climate Change
Imogen Hamel Green
How we TEACH OUR OUR FUTURE HEALTH WORKFORCE

10. How we FRAME HEALTH MESSAGES
…Patient Views of Sustainability and
their Doctors’ Roles

11. “Sustainable Development Goals”
Nature March 2013

12. Our Mission
Our mission is to foster the role of family
doctors in protecting the health of their patients
and communities from the impacts of
environmental hazards and environmental
degradation, and to promote healthy and
sustainable societies at the local and global level

13. What you can do!
• Join our membership elist
• Visit out meeting
• Consider writing us a piece for the new book
“Family Practitioners in the Field- stories from
environmental doctors from around the globe”
gblashki@unimelb.edu.au
Join us on facebook and twitter
#envWONCA