7 competencies that ePlanet wants to promote:
- Interrelatedness / systems thinking
Understanding the interaction between human health and the environment on the individual, local, and global level.
- The Anthropocene and health
Understanding of anthropogenic environmental changes and their impacts on health.
- Prevention (healthy lifestyle, climate/environmental mitigation and adaption)
Implementing mitigation and adaptation strategies for healthcare professionals and facilities to address climate change-related health risks.
- Advocacy
Recognizing the professional duty for environmental stewardship. Showing leadership and motivation to make a positive contribution.
- Social justice / equity
Striving for health practices that lead to increased equity and sustainability.
- Worldview / perspectives and self-reflection
Exploring own thinking and actions in relation to sustainable development and seeking to understand those of others.
- Futuring
Imaging beyond current practices and society and envisioning and shaping a sustainable and health future, also known as ‘futuring’.
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