Library Guides: Planetary Health resources at VU: Health &amp; wellbeing

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Searching across VU resources

Staff and students from Victoria University are able to access various online resources from VU Library. You may be initially diverted to the VU Portal log-in page. Enter your Victoria University credentials.

Below is a selection of search links that allow you to re-run a VU Library search. Using the Limits option within the search results may be appropriate to focus your search more precisely. For all examples, a limit to all literature published in the last five years has been applied.

Human health “climate change” AND (“human health” OR “public health” OR health)
Communicable diseases "climate change" AND ("infectious disease*" OR "communicable disease*" OR disease*)
Public health “planetary health” AND (“human health” OR “public health” OR health)
Non-communicable diseases “climate change” AND ("non-communicable disease*" OR "noncommunicable disease*")
COVID-19 "climate change" AND (COVID-19 OR "pandemic of COVID" OR "COVID-19 pandemic" OR sars-cov-2 OR coronavirus*)

Journals

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BMC Infectious Diseases
"A peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of infectious and sexually transmitted diseases in humans, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology".
Emerging Infectious Diseases
"Promotes the recognition of new and reemerging infectious diseases around the world and improves the understanding of factors involved in disease emergence, prevention, and elimination".
Exposure and Health
"Journal focused on global human health consequences of exposure to pollution in natural and anthropogenic influenced environments".
Health Affairs
"The peer-reviewed leading journal of health policy thought and research".
Immunity
"The range of subjects includes, but is not limited to, immune cell development and senescence (...), innate and adaptive immunity, autoimmunity, infectious disease, allergy and asthma".
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by MDPI
International Journal of Infectious Diseases
"Publishes original clinical and laboratory-based research, together with reports of clinical trials, reviews, and some case reports dealing with the epidemiology, clinical diagnosis, treatment, and control of infectious diseases".
International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health
"IJMSPH is an online and print open access, internationally indexed, peer-reviewed journal, originated as a platform for the scientific expression of the medical researchers, clinicians, public health experts".
International Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases
It is "is an official publication of the World NCD Federation. It is unique of its kind in addressing issues of public health priorities such as prevention and policy, disease management, surveillance and research specific to NCDs".
The Journal of Infectious Diseases
"It is the premier global journal for original research on infectious diseases. The editors welcome Major Articles and Brief Reports describing research results on microbiology, immunology, epidemiology, and related disciplines, on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases".
The Lancet
A medical publication from Great Britain, featuring articles of interest to the medical world, with a heavy emphasis on research techniques.
Medical Journal of Australia
"The MJA publishes the latest Australian clinical research, evidence-based reviews, clinical practice updates, authoritative medical opinion and debate, and developments within the humanities with respect to medicine".

The complete list of e-journal titles provided by the library can be viewed from the Journals Titles list.

Open Access collections

APO Analysis and policy observatory APO’s searchable digital repository is a collection of grey literature on public policy issues, covering Australia & New Zealand. Resources are sourced from a wide range of organisations involved in policy such as government, agencies, regulators, research institutes, non-for-profits and think tanks.
BioMed Central: Coronavirus research highlights Includes recent content from BMC and SpringerOpen journals relevant to coronavirus research, as well as additional commentary on this topic.
IOS Press IOS Press serves the information needs of scientific and medical communities. It publishes international journals and books.
The Lancet Countdown: Tracking progress on health and climate change Access here a range of resources and materials including briefs for policymakers, translations of the executive summaries of Lancet Countdown annual reports, infographics, podcasts and videos. See also 'Explore data' to access data from the 2020 Lancet countdown report, including country specific, regional and income group level data.
Health Care Without Harm Health Care Without Harm works in partnership with international organisations to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, and becomes a leader in the global movement for environmental health and justice. On this site access documents related to HCWH strategy, reports and case studies.
WHO. Global Health Observeratory WHO's gateway to health-related statistics. Browse or search data on priority health topics including mortality and burden of diseases, the Millennium Development Goals (child health, maternal and reproductive health, immunization, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, water and sanitation), non communicable diseases, epidemic-prone diseases, health systems, environmental health.

Journal articles

Backholer, K., Baum, F., Finlay, S. M., Friel, S., Giles-Corti, B., Jones, A., Patrick, R., Shill, J., Townsend, B., Armstrong, F., Baker, P., Bowen, K., Browne, J., Büsst, C., Butt, A., Canuto, K., Canuto, K., Capon, A., Corben, K., … Demaio, S. (2021). Australia in 2030: what is our path to health for all? The Medical Journal of Australia, 214 Suppl 8, 5–40. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51020

Beggs, P. J., Zhang, Y., McGushin, A., Trueck, S., Linnenluecke, M. K., Bambrick, H., Berry, H. L., Jay, O., Rychetnik, L., Hanigan, I. C., Morgan, G. G., Guo, Y., Malik, A., Stevenson, M., Green, D., Johnston, F. H., McMichael, C., Hamilton, I., & Capon, A. G. (2021). The 2021 report of the MJA-Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Australia increasingly out on a limb. The Medical Journal of Australia, 215(9), 390. http://doi: 10.5694/mja2.51302

Campbell, S. L., Johnston, F. H., Remenyi, T. A., White, C. J. & Williamson, G. J. (2019). The value of local heatwave impact assessment: A case-crossover analysis of hospital emergency department presentations in Tasmania, Australia. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(19). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16193715

Clayton, S. (2020). Climate anxiety: Psychological responses to climate change. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102263

Ebi, K. L., & Hess, J. J. (2020). Health risks due to climate change: Inequity in causes and consequences. Health Affairs (Project Hope), 39(12), 2056–2062.

Hayes, K., Blashki, G., Wiseman, J., Burke, B. & Reifels, L. (2018). Climate change and mental health: Risks, impacts and priority actions. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 12 (28), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-018-0210-6

Watts, N., Amann, M., Arnell, N., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Belesova, K., Berry, H., Bouley, T., Boykoff, M., Byass, P., Cai, W., Campbell-Lendrum, D., Chambers, J., Daly, M., Dasandi, N., Davies, M., Depoux, A., Dominguez-Salas, P., Drummond, P., Ebi, K. L., …Costello, A. (2018). The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Shaping the health of nations for centuries to come. The Lancet, 392(10163), 2479–2514. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32594-7

Zhang, Y., Beggs, P. J., McGushin, A., Bambrick, H., Trueck, S., Hanigan, I. C., Morgan, G. G., Berry, H. L., Linnenluecke, M. K., Johnston, F. H., Capon, A. G., & Watts, N. (2020). The 2020 special report of the MJA-Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Lessons learnt from Australia's "Black Summer". The Medical Journal of Australia, 213(11), 490. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50869

Electronic books

VU research

Victoria University Public Health Research projects

https://www.vu.edu.au/planetary-health/projects-programs/research-with-impact/community-health-wellbeing

Parker, A., Trott, E., Bourke, M., Klepac Pogrmilovic, B., Dadswell, K., Craike, M., McLean, S., Dash, S., and Pascoe, M. (2021). Young people's attitudes towards integrating physical activity as part of mental health treatment: a cross‐sectional study in youth mental health services. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1111/eip.13189

Timpani, C., & Rybalka, E., (2021) Calming the (Cytokine) storm: Dimethyl fumarate as a therapeutic candidate for covid-19. Pharmaceuticals, 14 (1). pp. 1-15. ISSN 1424-8247 (In Press)

Jones, R., Maharaj, N., Rasmussen, B., Sheehan, P., & Young, C. (2018). Scoping study: costs of climate change impacts on the social determinants of health and wellbeing. Literature review. Project Report. Victoria, Department of Health and Human Services, Melbourne, Australia. (Unpublished) https://vuir.vu.edu.au/41135/