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Planetary health pedagogy: Preparing health promoters for 21st-century environmental challenges.

Teresa CapetolaSue NoyRebecca Patrick
Published in: Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals (2022)
A bespoke model, the Sustainability Wheel of Fortune, combined with constructive interactive teaching approaches, adds interdisciplinary collaboration and systems thinking approaches to the knowledge and practice of planetary health. A postgraduate microcredential fast-tracks knowledge and skills acquisition for recent graduates and established practitioners interested in upskilling for planning planet and population health co-benefits. SO WHAT?: The Sustainability Wheel of Fortune provides health promotion students with a model for understanding, and addressing, complex global and local challenges. The microcredential builds on health promotion competencies to develop interdisciplinary and systems-based approaches to planetary health challenges.
Keyphrases
  • health promotion
  • healthcare
  • public health
  • mental health
  • primary care
  • health information
  • human health
  • climate change
  • quality improvement
  • global health