2021
The Role of Healthcare Providers in Our Overpopulation Crisis
GREGUŠ, Jan a John GUILLEBAUDZákladní 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 |
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