Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century – Embracing a Digital World, 3rd Edition
Book 4: Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Supports People, Systems, and the Planet
2022 Productivity Press: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003281047
Chapter 1
Authors: Teddie Potter, Carlos Alberto Faerron Guzmán, Karen A. Monsen, Carolyn M. Porta, Andre Uhl
This chapter describes the interconnection of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the emerging field of planetary health and significant new applications for informatics. Planetary health is an emerging field of science, a paradigm outlining a great transformation of human systems and a network of individuals and organizations working on changing human behaviors to restore the health of the planet. Planetary health redefines humans’ relationship with the rest of Nature and offers justice-driven solutions for our current social and environmental crises. The transdisciplinary data being used and amassed by planetary health scientists, educators, researchers and practitioners around the globe needs to be organized and operationalized to promote effective solutions and support the urgent and necessary changes. Planetary health informatics can apply the disciplines’ tools, methodologies and techniques to help achieve the UN’s Social Development Goals and restore the health of the planet for future generations. The practice areas most directly called for include biomedical and health informatics, including translational, clinical research, clinical, consumer health and public health.