Planetary Health: From the Wellspring of Holistic Medicine to Personal and Public Health Imperative

The term planetary health, popularized in the 1980-90s, underscores that human health cannot be uncoupled from the health of natural systems within the Earth's biosphere. Coincident with the rise of environmentalism in the 1970s, the artificially drawn lines between personal, public and planetary health began to diminish. As the global health burdens shifted from infectious to non-communicable diseases (NCDs), greater emphasis was placed on the health-mediating role of lifestyle and the total lived environment; included in this perspective was the health implications of human-manufactured threats to life within the biosphere1 –3.
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