Future Child Health
@futurechildhealth.bsky.social
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Our research aims to quantify how current and future environmental changes affect child health. We lead a multi-disciplinary team with the expertise to establish this ground-breaking area of research Perth, Western Australia futurechildhealth.org
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Jamie Turnbull of @thekidsau.bsky.social & Future Child Health presents

'Global systematic review of how climate change degrades the wellbeing & health of #Indigenous children'

at the 2025 Public Health Association Australia Conference in Wollongong, NSW

youtu.be/irCkvNR-h6k?...
Global Systematic Review of Climate Change and Indigenous Child Health
<p>Climate change worsens global health, with Indigenous children among the most vulnerable. Despite increasing research on climate-related health impacts, Indi
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Even the #WorldBank acknowledges that humanity has over-exploited the planet, gone beyond its safe boundaries, and that our economic system is to blame

openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/c...

Good start, but they mention nothing about the fact that we are too many doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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Tonight!

Duke of Brunswick Hotel, Adelaide

Human population and its effect on quality of life, equality, extinctions, and climate change

I think there might be a few spots left

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I was tired of all the pro-natalist bullshit (even from the ABC), so we wrote a paper (preprint still) about the relationship between population growth, ageing, and the #economy

No evidence ageing or declining populations compromise socio-economic performance of countries

doi.org/10.48550/arX...
No evidence ageing or declining populations compromise socio-economic performance of countries
Concerns about declining or ageing populations often centre on the fear that fewer people will translate to a weaker economy and lower living standards. But these fears are frequently based on oversim...
doi.org
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Which aspect of child health is most affected by climate change?

Premature birth www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A phenomenon that often leads to many other health complications after birth

The negative effects can even last for the remainder of individual's life
How climate change degrades child health: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Children are more vulnerable than adults to climate-related health threats, but reviews examining how climate change affects human health have been ma…
www.sciencedirect.com
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Professor Corey Bradshaw's @conservbytes.bsky.social of Future Child Health #TEDxSydney talk is now live!

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Our latest @futurechildhealth.bsky.social report in partnership with @popnmatters.bsky.social

'Fragile Futures: How underestimating the risks of
#population pressure endangers the health
and lives of current and future children'

Now available to download: populationmatters.org/fragile-futu...
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I've just learnt that the US delegate at the United Nations 58th Commission on Population & Development #CPD58 would not support the CPD statement (www.un.org/development/...), so consensus not possible

Nice one, 𝑼𝑛𝒾𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑺𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑨𝓇𝑠𝑒ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒
Commission on Population and Development, fifty-eighth session (2025) | Population Division
Members of the Commission Bureau members Ms. Catharina Jannigje Lasseur (Kingdom of the Netherlands) - Western European and Others Group (WEOG) (Chair) Ms. Josélyne Kwishaka (Burundi) - African Group ...
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Future Child Health in partnership with @popnmatters.bsky.social presents

'Fragile Futures: a critical discussion on #climate and #childhealth'

presented at the United Nations 58th Commission on Population & Development #CPD58

Watch the recorded event here: youtu.be/I5GqL6Czphc?...
Fragile Futures: The Hidden Scale of Child Mortality
YouTube video by Population Matters
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Future Child Health Professor Peter Le Souëf speaking from the 58th Commission on Population & Development #CPD58, United Nations, New York