Saving the climate with stethoscopes: as a boggling week in #US politics winds down, a new study documents fantastic work done by US-based @HIHngo & Indonesian @YayasanASRI to save lives & trees--by providing healthcare. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackierocheleau/2020/10/29/how-an-indonesian-healthcare-clinic-is-fighting-climate-change/?sh=6e228ce212e5
How An Indonesian Healthcare Clinic Is Fighting Climate Change

By providing affordable healthcare and training in organic farming, the intervention allowed communities to stop logging and protect their forest.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackierocheleau/2020/10/29/how-an-indonesian-healthcare-clinic-is-fighting-climate-change/?sh=6e228ce212e5
Stanford researchers crunched the numbers on @HIHngo & @YayasanASRI's project: $5.2M between 2007-2017 helped avert the loss of $65.3M worth of rainforest carbon & decreased infant mortality 67% in the hospital catchment (120,000 pop).

#PlanetaryHealth https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/10/22/2009240117/tab-article-info
Improving rural health care reduces illegal logging and conserves carbon in a tropical forest

Here, we show how a conservation–health care exchange in rural Borneo preserved globally important forest carbon and simultaneously improved human health and well-being, in a region of historically...

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/10/22/2009240117/tab-article-info
The Stanford study additionally shows that at @HIHngo & @YayasanASRI's project 50,000 acres of secondary forest regrew to protect the habitat for 3,000 endangered Bornean Orangutans.
#PlanetaryHealth https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/10/22/2009240117/tab-article-info
Improving rural health care reduces illegal logging and conserves carbon in a tropical forest

Here, we show how a conservation–health care exchange in rural Borneo preserved globally important forest carbon and simultaneously improved human health and well-being, in a region of historically...

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/10/22/2009240117/tab-article-info
Founder @KinariWebb started as a researcher in Borneo & realized people were cutting down 🌳 to pay for healthcare. She went to med school, came back & asked "What gift can the international community give to 🙏you for protecting trees?"
#RadicalListening
I spent a month doing clinical teaching at @YayasanASRI in Kalimantan in 2018 (am on @HIHngo board).
Was astonished by the #JustTransition program: chainsaw buyback➡️small business loans
Goats 4 widows
organic farming training.
#solutions #collaboration
https://drcourtneyhoward.ca/2018/03/13/ 
How can people worldwide work as allies to promote #planetaryhealth, taking into account inequities & the colonial history of #globalhealth?
Learning continues but there is a lot in @HIHngo @YayasanASRI's partnership to celebrate.

@KHayhoe @DrKWilkinson https://healthinharmony.org 
Home — Health In Harmony

Protecting rainforestsso the Earth can breathe. Watch our short video We are a climate solution. Health In Harmony is an international nonprofit dedicated to reversing global heating, understanding...

https://healthinharmony.org
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