TIME TO TREAT THE CLIMATE AND NATURE CRISIS AS ONE INDIVISIBLE GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY

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Kamran Abbasi
Parveen Ali
Virginia Barbour
Thomas Benfield
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo
Stephen Hancocks
Richard Horton
Laurie Laybourn-Langton
Robert Mash
Peush Sahni
Wadeia Mohammad Sharief
Paul Yonga
Chris Zielinski

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Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, Thomas Benfield, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Stephen Hancocks, Richard Horton, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Robert Mash, Peush Sahni, Wadeia Mohammad Sharief, Paul Yonga, Zielinski C. TIME TO TREAT THE CLIMATE AND NATURE CRISIS AS ONE INDIVISIBLE GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY. J Postgrad Med Inst [Internet]. 2023 Nov. 6 [cited 2024 Nov. 18];37(4):235-7. Available from: https://jpmi.org.pk/index.php/jpmi/article/view/3349
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