Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18051/UnivMed.2023.v42.251-254 Universa Medicina
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Kamran Abbasi
Editor-in-Chief, BMJ
Parveen Ali
Editor-in-Chief, International Nursing Review
Virginia Barbour
Editor-in-Chief, Medical Journal of Australia
Thomas Benfield
Editor-in-Chief, Danish Medical Journal
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0698-9385
Kirsten Bibbins Domingo
Editor-in-Chief, JAMA
Stephen Hancocks
Editor-in-Chief, British Dental Journal
Richard Horton
Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet
Laurie Laybourn Langton
University of Exeter
Robert Mash
Editor-in-Chief, African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
Peush Sahni
Editor-in-Chief, African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
Wadeia Mohammad Sharief
Editor-in-Chief, Dubai Medical Journal
Paul Yonga
Editor-in-Chief, East African Medical Journal
Chris Zielinski

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Abbasi, K. ., Ali, P. ., Barbour, V. . ., Benfield, T. ., Bibbins Domingo, K. ., Hancocks, S. ., Horton, R. ., Laybourn Langton, L. ., Mash, R. ., Sahni, P. ., Sharief, W. M. ., Yonga, P. ., & Zielinski, C. . (2023). Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency. Universa Medicina, 42(3), 251–254. https://doi.org/10.18051/UnivMed.2023.v42.251-254
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