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EDITORIAL

Call for Emergency Action to Limit Global Temperature Increases, Restore Biodiversity, and Protect Health Wealthy Nations Must do Much More, Much Faster

Lukoye Atwoli1 Abdullah H. Baqui2 Thomas Benfield3 Raffaella Bosurgi4 Fiona Godlee5 Stephen Hancocks6 Richard Horton7 Laurie Laybourn-Langton8 Carlos Augusto Monteiro9 Ian Norman10 Kirsten Patrick11 Nigel Praities12 Marcel Olde Rikkert13 Eric J. Rubin14 Peush Sahni15 Richard Smith16 Nicholas J. Talley17 Sue Turale18 Damián Vázquez19
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1 East African Medical Journal;, East African Medical Journal;
2 Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition;
3 Danish Medical Journal;, Danish Medical Journal;
4 PLOS Medicine, PLOS Medicine
5 The BMJ, The BMJ
6 British Dental Journal, British Dental Journal
7 The Lancet, The Lancet
8 UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
9 Revista de Saúde Pública, Revista de Saúde Pública
10 International Journal of Nursing Studies, International Journal of Nursing Studies
11 CMAJ, CMAJ
12 Pharmaceutical Journal, Pharmaceutical Journal
13 Dutch Journal of Medicine, Dutch Journal of Medicine
14 NEJM, NEJM
15 National Medical Journal of India, National Medical Journal of India
16 UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
17 Medical Journal of Australia, Medical Journal of Australia
18 International Nursing Review, International Nursing Review
19 Pan American Journal of Public Health, Pan American Journal of Public Health
EJMO 2021, 5(3), 201–204; https://doi.org/10.14744/ejmo.2021.00011
Submitted: 6 August 2021 | Accepted: 6 August 2021 | Published: 16 September 2021
© 2021 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
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