Cape.ca is a Canadian association of environmental physicians
Title
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
Description
Welcome to the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. CAPE is a membership organization for health professionals. It works to protect the environment in order to protect human health.
Ecosystem Health and Human Health
"Ecosystem health may be defined as a systematic approach to the preventative, diagnostic, and prognostic aspects of ecosystem management, and to the understanding of relationships between ecosystem health and human health. It seeks to understand and optimize the intrinsic capacity of an ecosystem for self-renewal while meeting reasonable human goals. It encompasses the role of societal values, attitudes and goals in shaping our conception of health at human and ecosystem scales." (Source: Ecosystem Health - The official journal of the International Society for Ecosystem Health).
In 1948, the World Health Organization defined health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being." Since then, we have come to a better understanding of the place of humans within the global ecosystem. It might be more appropriate, today, to say that health is a state of complete physical, mental, social and ecological well-being. The level of health we enjoy in Canada today is the result of centuries of social and economic development rooted in exploitation of the earth's natural resources. Ultimately, our health depends upon the health of the ecosystem of which we are a part.
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- Activism
- Cape
- Canadian Association
- Children's Environmental Health
- Children's Health
- Climate Change
- Endocrine Disruptors
- Environment
- Environmental Health
- Environmental Law
- Environmental Policy
- Global Warming
- Health Policy
- Legislation
- Nongovernmental Organization
- Po Ps
- Parliament
- Pediatric Health
- Pesticides
- Physicians
- Pollutants
- Pollution
- Sustainability
- CAPE
- POPs