
3 December 2021 @ 16 h 30 min — 18 h 30 min
Jean-François Toussaint, Professor of Physiology, Université de Paris, CIMS Hôtel-Dieu, APHP, Director of the IRMES (Institut de Recherche Médicale et d’Epidémiologie du Sport).
EA 7329, INSEP
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Our world’s climate is changing. Public health is being challenged by the emerging issues brought upon by the Anthropocene: respiratory diseases induced by pollution, zoonoses related to biodiversity loss, changing infectious diseases as a results of climate change. By looking at air quality, nutrition, infectious diseases, and human migration, this course will show you how increases in greenhouse gases impact public health.
Encountering several simultaneous risky situations, mankind may have the choice to ease its future … or not.
L’homme peut-il s’adapter à lui-même ? Toussaint JF, Bernard Swynghedauw, Gilles Boeuf. Éditions QUAE, Paris 2012, 188p. https://www.quae.com/produit/1135/9782759219452/l‑homme-peut-il-s-adapter-a-lui-meme
Impacts sanitaires de la stratégie d’adaptation au changement climatique. Rapport pour le compte des Ministères chargés de la Santé et de l’Écologie. Toussaint JF. Groupe Adaptation et Prospective du Haut Conseil de la Santé Publique. Documentation Française, Paris 2015. 136p. https://www.hcsp.fr/explore.cgi/avisrapportsdomaine?clefr=523 & https://www.vie-publique.fr/catalogue/22617-impacts-sanitaires-de-la-strategie-dadaptation-au-changement-climatique
De Larochelambert Q, Marc A, Antero J, Le Bourg E, Toussaint JF. Covid-19 mortality: a matter of vulnerability among nations facing limited margins of adaptation. Front Public Health, 2020; 8: 604339. Doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.604339 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.604339/full
Are we reaching the limits of Homo sapiens? Adrien Marck, Antero J, Berthelot G, Saulière G, Jancovici JM, Masson-Delmotte V, Boeuf G, Spedding M, Le Bourg E, Toussaint JF. Front Physiol. 2017, 8: 812. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00812. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2017.00812/full






