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The Role of Healthcare Providers in Our Overpopulation Crisis

GREGUŠ, Jan a John GUILLEBAUD

Základní údaje

Originální název

The Role of Healthcare Providers in Our Overpopulation Crisis

Autoři

GREGUŠ, Jan (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí) a John GUILLEBAUD (826 Velká Británie a Severní Irsko)

Vydání

XXIII. FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Sydney, 2021

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Konferenční abstrakt

Obor

60302 Ethics

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/21:00122689

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

overpopulation; population growth; pandemics; environmental degradation; climate change; women’s health and rights; family planning; contraception

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 30. 4. 2022 18:04, Mgr. MUDr. Jan Greguš

Anotace

V originále

Overpopulation exacerbates environmental and health problems, from climate change to biodiversity loss and pandemics. It is the “upstream” driver of numerous existential threats and also a major obstacle for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Addressing overpopulation and population growth compassionately - always - should be axiomatic for all health-care providers. The work of this profession, which has dramatically reduced death rates since the 1800s while keeping birth rates high, unintentionally bears some responsibility for the increase: one billion then, eight billion looming. Therefore, healthcare providers, especially those in gynaecology and obstetrics, must be uniquely motivated to: (1) become involved in rights-based policies and services with unbroken supply chains, ensuring optimal contraceptive care is available to all women and couples worldwide, (2) remove well-known tangible (unavailable contraceptives) and intangible (cultural, religious and mis-informational) barriers to women’s freedom to access family planning everywhere, while achieving full gender equity, especially in education, (3) sound the alarm on how overpopulation risks all planetary life, through optimal environmental education both for colleagues and the public, and (4) campaign for a maximum of two children per family (i.e. replacement fertility, and ideally less) on principle.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1157/2020, interní kód MU
Název: Aspekty soudobé filozofie III
Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Aspekty soudobé filozofie III