Health and energy choices considered by background paper

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ll sources of energy to support human activity have implications for health.

We, as a society, need to choose how we harvest energy so that we use the ones with the least overall adverse impacts on health.

This paper on Health and Energy Choices is to open this discussion for Australia, and to provide a background for the Joint Position statement on Health and Energy Choices.

This ‘background paper’ has been published by Climate and Health Alliance; the Public Health Association of Australia; the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation; the National Toxics Network; the Australian Medical Students Association; and the Women’s Health East; and Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health.

The November 2014 paper was prepared by Fiona Armstrong and Dr Peter Tait.

Read the paper here: “Background to Position Paper: Health and Energy Choices”.