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Challenges, Volume 14, Issue 1

March 2023 - 19 articles

Cover Story: Restoring human connections to nature may provide a critical common pathway to promote the physical and spiritual well-being of individuals and communities, as well as personal and social environmental responsibility. In this paper, we summarize and reflect on nature-based solutions as pathways to promote both personal and planetary health with more mutualistic mindsets. This spans from biological to psychological interactions with nature—including the critical relationships with environmental microbes that influence physical, emotional, and behavioral aspects of health. We consider how stronger relationships with nature promote “inner assets” to support “outward actions” for personal and planetary health. View this paper
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Articles (19)

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,317 Views
12 Pages

22 March 2023

Despite technological innovation and vast renewable energy sources in rural areas, a significant number of rural households are living in energy poverty, and there is a pressing need to come up with strategies to mitigate this. This paper presents an...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,096 Views
12 Pages

Mobilising the Next Generation of Planetary Health Leaders: The Dynamism of Youth Engagement in Malaysia

  • Saidatul Maisarah Faiesall,
  • Sarah Hanani Ahmad Tajuddin,
  • Andrew Jason George,
  • Nur Hazirah Marzuki,
  • Oliver Lacey-Hall,
  • Jemilah Mahmood,
  • Gopalasamy Reuben Clements and
  • Renzo Guinto

10 March 2023

With planetary health gaining traction as a global movement and problem-solving approach, this trans-disciplinary field is well-placed to provide an exciting and dynamic platform to promote engagement with young people. Previous studies have shown th...

  • Conference Report
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,428 Views
9 Pages

Developing Trusted Voices for Planetary Health: Findings from a Clinicians for Planetary Health (C4PH) Workshop

  • Michael Xie,
  • Vanessa Góes,
  • Melissa Lem,
  • Kristin Raab,
  • Tatiana Souza de Camargo,
  • Enrique Falceto de Barros,
  • Sandeep Maharaj and
  • Teddie Potter

Climate change, biodiversity loss, and other environmental changes are rapidly impacting the health of people worldwide, but many clinicians and other health professionals feel unprepared to deal with this burgeoning issue. During the Planetary Healt...

  • Conference Report
  • Open Access
29 Citations
11,747 Views
23 Pages

Nature Connection: Providing a Pathway from Personal to Planetary Health

  • John Zelenski,
  • Sara Warber,
  • Jake M. Robinson,
  • Alan C. Logan and
  • Susan L. Prescott

The vast and growing challenges for human health and all life on Earth require urgent and deep structural changes to the way in which we live. Broken relationships with nature are at the core of both the modern health crisis and the erosion of planet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,377 Views
22 Pages

Burnout, a negative job-related psychological state common with health professionals, results in valuable healthcare research loss. Team mindfulness, promoting work engagement, represents an aspect effective in reducing burnout. In a series of divers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
11,266 Views
15 Pages

Challenges in Sustainable Beef Cattle Production: A Subset of Needed Advancements

  • Jason A. Hubbart,
  • Nathan Blake,
  • Ida Holásková,
  • Domingo Mata Padrino,
  • Matthew Walker and
  • Matthew Wilson

20 February 2023

Estimates of global population growth are often cited as a significant challenge for global food production. It is estimated that by 2050 there will be approximately two- billion additional people on earth, with the greatest proportion of that growth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,600 Views
15 Pages

Relationships of First-Trimester Body Mass Index and Weight Change with Persistent Organic Pollutant Concentrations in Pregnant Canadian Individuals

  • Marianne Levesque,
  • Mariame Ouedraogo,
  • Romina Fakhraei,
  • Alysha Dingwall Harvey,
  • Elizabeth Bratton,
  • Mark Walker,
  • Linda Dodds and
  • Laura Gaudet

16 February 2023

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are toxic chemicals with demonstrable effects on pregnancy and neonatal outcomes. The associations of early pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and antenatal weight changes with circulating POP concentrations are poor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,259 Views
17 Pages

14 February 2023

Remote sensing monitoring of crop growth began from airborne photography to assist in crop pest management and has evolved into monitoring from satellites, manned aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and ground-based systems for crop production...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,653 Views
16 Pages

Intergenerational Deliberations for Long Term Sustainability

  • Llinos Haf Spencer,
  • Mary Lynch,
  • Gwenlli Mair Thomas and
  • Rhiannon Tudor Edwards

11 February 2023

Grŵp Cynefin, a social housing association in North Wales, United Kingdom (UK) with other partner organisations, had a vision to create a community Hub in the Nantlle Valley to strengthen and support the health and well-being of the local commun...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,825 Views
6 Pages

9 February 2023

Most people know the fabled story of the elephant and the “six blind men”, with each of them separately examining a different portion of the mysterious object before them and drawing a different conclusion without awareness of the whole p...

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Challenges - ISSN 2078-1547