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Climate change is no longer just an issue for ESG specialists - it affects everyone. In today's world, the legal community has a crucial role to play in driving the climate change agenda forward. This article is based on ten interviews with over 10 influential General and Legal Counsels to understand the crucial role that legal teams can play in driving the environmental agenda forward, and is related to SDGs 13 and 16.
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The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Sophie V. Eastwood a, Alun D. Hughes a, Laurie Tomlinson b, Rohini Mathur b, Liam Smeeth b, Krishnan Bhaskaran b, Nishi Chaturvedi aVolume 25, February 2023, 100557
This Article supports SDGs 3 and 16 by showing that although antihypertensive initiation did not vary by ethnicity, subsequent blood pressure control was lower among people of African and African Caribbean ethnicity.
LexisNexis Legal & Professional hosted a panel discussion, Lawyers and the Climate Emergency, in partnership with the International Law Book Facility (ILBF).
This Viewpoint supports SDGs 3 and 16 by by exploring decolonising interventions in planetary health. The authors highlight intercultural thinking in order to promote anticolonial, antiracist approaches to climate change and health inequities.
This Personal View supports SDGs 3 and 16 by presenting a case study using Indigenist health humanities to offer a way to understand planetary health. The authors indicate that embedding Indigenous knowledge and voices into planetary health education is important as part of decolonising learning in health professional education.
This Article supports SDGs 3, 5, 10 and 16 by assessing changes in stillbirth rates overall and for Black and White women, finding that there was a substantial racial disparity and suggesting that targeted health and social policies are needed to address this issue.
This study underwrites the pivotal role of voluntary work in reducing the impact of symptoms of stress on the development of depressive symptoms and the likelihood of being prescribed an antidepressant.
This viewpoint supports SDGs 3, 5, 10 and 16, focusing on the drivers of Black maternal mortality and advocating the collection of disaggregated data to support improvements in Black maternal health.
This Article supports SDGs 3 and 16 by assessing whether ethnicity influences the risk of out of hospital cardiac arrest in immigrants in Denmark. The authors emphasise that identifying ethnic disparities is important to understand and prevent out of hospital cardiac arrests and to reduce inequalities.
This Article supports SDGs 3 and 16 by assessing gaps in the evidence on key health outcomes and inequalities in Latin American and Caribbean countries, focusing particularly on inequalities between people of African descent and people of non-African descent.
