[Link] “Inequality of Health Chances is More than a Question for Health Systems”

Press Release No. 100/202622 September 2026

        Researchers at Universität Heidelberg call for establishing the health issue at the core of climate and environmental policy
  
        The worldwide inequality of health opportunities is being further heightened by the triple planetary crisis – climate change, loss of biodiversity and environmental pollution. Hence preventing it is more than a question for health systems; as a central concern it must be embedded in climate and environmental policy. This is being urged by scientists from Heidelberg University whose research focuses, inter alia, on global health, environment-related diseases and climate action. They advocate not only for countering this inequality at the individual level but also for re...