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Trevor Hancock
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Our health should be an election issue
First, health care is a provincial responsibility under the Constitution, so the federal government plays no real role in managing Canada’s various provincial and territorial…
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Time to shift the bell curve toward health
At each end of the curve are the small number of people who are either extremely tall or short. This pattern is found throughout nature…
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Four of top 10 global health threats are environmental
The first threat is air pollution and climate change. The WHO reports that nine out of ten people around the world breathe polluted air every…
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Population growth is only part of our ecological problem
There is a famous equation proposed by Paul Erlich and John Holdren in 1972: I (human impact on the Earth) = P (population) x A…
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We need saving, the earth will survive
“The present dominant global civilization is not healthy for the planet and thus not for us.” “Protecting life on Earth, including our own species, requires…
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Look upstream to improve mental health
“We need to look well beyond the health care system, to society as a whole.” “The physical environment also has an impact on mental wellbeing.”…
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