Urbanisation is one of the leading global trends of the 21st century and the UN predicts that
seven in ten people will live in urban areas by 2050. 1 With hasty global urbanisation, the …

Urbanisation is a planetary scale change process. In the past 200 years, the proportion of
the world's population living in cities has grown from about 5% to more than 50%. 1 By 2050 …

Transitions from rural to urban living are often prompted by promises of increased economic
opportunities and cheaper health care, education, and transportation. However, these rural …

We live in a so-called risk society. The renowned sociologist and social thinker Ulrich Beck
defines a risk society as an inescapable structural condition of advanced industrialisation. 1 …

Air pollution and climate change are both threats to population health worldwide. In the UK,
we have seen how climate change is already affecting all the systems on which our health …

One of the key lessons that can be learnt from the history of public health is that many major
public health advances—from clean drinking water to tobacco control—have been led at the …

Comment e146 www. thelancet. com/planetary-health Vol 2 April 2018 largely non-
interventionist governments), influence resides with local governments to some extent, but …

April 7 marks WHO's annual World Health Day, which this year has the theme “Our planet,
our health”. The future health of the planet and human health are inextricably linked. An …

Rapidly increasing urbanisation along with ageing populations, climate change,
environmental degrada tion, COVID19, and other pandemics present substantial challenges …

A wide-reaching concern in planetary health is: can we strive for a climate resilient future?
The 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate …