James Irlam

Education about Planetary Health and Sustainable Healthcare in low- and middle-income countries: Planetary Health Report Card assessment of perceptions at University of Cape Town Faculty of Health Sciences

James Irlam, Steve Reid, Hanna‐Andrea Rother

Background. The Planetary Health Report Card (PHRC) was developed by medical students in the USA as a metric-based scorecard and institutional advocacy tool for planetary health (PH), with respect to five categories: Curriculum, Community Engagement, Student Leadership, Research, and Campus Sustainability. The …

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Education about planetary health and sustainable healthcare: A national Delphi panel assessment of its integration into health professions education in South Africa

James Irlam, Sarah Reid, Hanna‐Andrea Rother

Background. Education about planetary health (PH) and sustainable healthcare (SH), or education for sustainable healthcare (ESH), enables health professionals to help protect public health and healthcare from climate change and environmental degradation. The Association for Medical Education in Europe Consensus (AMEE Consensus) …

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Education about planetary health and sustainable healthcare: A national audit of health professions education curricula in South Africa

James Irlam, Abigail Dreyer, G C Filies, Lynelle Govender et autres

Background. Climate change and environmental degradation have severe public health impacts. Education about planetary health (PH) and sustainable healthcare (SH), or the interdependence of health and healthcare and planetary ecosystems, is developing globally to enable health professionals to protect public health from …

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The ‘just transition’ and health in South Africa

James Irlam, Rico Euripidou, Mafoko Phomane, Azeeza Rangunwala

Background South Africa’s long history of dependence on coal-fired power has had severe impacts on climate, environmental health, and public health. Global pressures and local demands for a planned just transition in South Africa have been growing. People are calling for a …

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‘Q-Storming’ to identify challenges and opportunities for integrating health and climate adaptation measures in Africa

Hanna‐Andrea Rother, Cassandra Dove, Rosalind Cornforth, Celia Petty et autres

Climate factors influence the state of human health and wellbeing. Climate-related threats are particularly being experienced by vulnerable populations in Africa. A Question (Q)-Storming session was convened at an international climate adaptation conference. It promoted dialog among a diverse spectrum of researchers, …

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Developing indicators for monitoring and evaluating the primary healthcare approach in health sciences education at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, using a Delphi technique

Mohammed Ishaaq Datay, James Irlam, Shajila Singh, F Walters et autres

Background. The Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), University of Cape Town (UCT) adopted the primary healthcare (PHC) approach as its lead theme for teaching, research and clinical service in 1994. A PHC working group was set up in 2017 to build consensus …

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Planetary health and environmental sustainability in African health professions education

James Irlam, Charlotte Scheerens, Robert Mash

CliMigHealth and the Education for Sustainable Healthcare (ESH) Special Interest Group of the Southern African Association of Health Educationalists (SAAHE) call for the urgent integration of planetary health (PH) and environmental sustainability into health professions curricula in Africa. Education on PH and …

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Student knowledge and perceptions of climate change and environmental sustainability at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa

James Irlam, Z Razzack, Hanna‐Andrea Rother

Background. Climate change and polluting healthcare systems are significant threats to public health. Education about planetary health and environmentally sustainable healthcare is needed to equip health professionals to meet these challenges.Objectives. To assess the knowledge, perceptions and understanding of climate change and …

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The Minimum Emission Standards (MES) and the sabotage of public health

Rico Euripidou, James Irlam, David Hallowes, Timothy Lloyd et autres

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Call for the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority to revisit regulations relating to single- use medical devices

J. Michael Lazarus, S Mawime, Graham Fieggen, L L Cairncoss et autres

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Education for Sustainable Healthcare in South Africa: Stepping Up Climate Action

James Irlam

in confronting the crisis, and the public health opportunity, of climate change.May this be the decade in which we

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Re-imagining health professions education in the coronavirus disease 2019 era: Perspectives from South Africa

Anna M.S. Schmutz, Louis S. Jenkins, François Coetzee, Hofmeyr H. Conradie et autres

BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic hit South Africa in March 2020, severely disrupting health services and health education. This fundamentally impacted the training of future health professionals and catalysed a significant response from across the health education sector. In 2020, …

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