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Planetary health : let’s make the change together!

Léa SCHLECK, Alice BARAS and Eva KOZUB

Around the world, many healthcare systems, organizations, and care teams are adapting to address current and future environmental and health challenges. This leads to recommendations for the organization and logistics of healthcare facilities, for health practionners’ practices, to a positive and collective approach to health (health promotion and community health). These transformations may lead to changes in how GPs perceive their own practices. In a globalized world where the causes and consequences of modern human activities do not stop at human-made borders, sharing our perceptions, experiences, and desire for professional change toward an eco-responsible dynamic—aimed at respecting life and ensuring equity—in our practices could be a catalyst for environmental action.To become familiar with the main challenges and priorities for transforming our professional practices towards eco-responsible practices. To share and compare experiences across different healthcare systems and levels of structural commitment. To establish common objectives, based on field experience, for transforming practices aimed at preserving life. To envision changes in a desirable and achievable way.First part 10 min :Introduction : the environmental crisis and its links to health system. Brief presentation of the different levels of health system engagement Second part 40 min: “world café” with 4 tables Table 1 : Sharing of experiences in changing practices towards a positive and integrated approach to health (eco-design of care, health promotion, community health) Table 2 : GPs’ expectations regarding a structural change in the healthcare system to meet eco-responsibility objectives Table 3 : Planetary health promotion and prevention approach : how to? Table 4 : GPs' expectations for a desirable future in our practice? Third part 10 min collective summary and synthesis : High priority changes classification among participants regarding achievable goals and cobenefits of the previous outcomesRaising awareness of shared concerns and levers for change, stimulating creativity in support of change. Increased sense of empowerment among participants to initiate a shift in health practices that are integrated and respectful of life.Sharing and reflecting collectively our practices’s evolution in planetary health can be catalysts for successful transformation.