Dr Hayley Bennett
Public Health Physician, Hayley Bennett Public Health Medicine, Rotorua, NZ
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Hayley Bennett MBChB, MPH, FNZCPHM is a Public Health Physician who lives and works in Rotorua. Her particular interests include: the social determinants of health, sustainability and climate change, and health equity. She is a long-term member of OraTaiao: The NZ Climate and Health Council and the Sustainable Health Sector National Network. She has two children, and is a keen mountain-biker and sailor.
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Climate Change and Health Equity in Aotearoa-New Zealand
The greatest adverse health impacts of climate change are falling on communities who already suffer health disadvantages, and who have contributed the least to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. For Māori in Aotearoa-New Zealand, climate change will intensify the inequitable burden of ill-health that has resulted from colonisation. This talk outlines climate change-health inequities, and discusses ideas for how practitioners and health organisations can align their climate and sustainability action with the achievement of health equity.
The greatest adverse health impacts of climate change are falling on communities who already suffer health disadvantages, and who have contributed the least to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. For Māori in Aotearoa-New Zealand, climate change will intensify the inequitable burden of ill-health that has resulted from colonisation. This talk outlines climate change-health inequities, and discusses ideas for how practitioners and health organisations can align their climate and sustainability action with the achievement of health equity.