PATHWAY TO PLANETARY HEALTH in practice

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In a time of unprecedented change and challenges within the global environmental crisis, the Pathway to Planetary Health is a guide that advocate dietitians have designed to promote and support individual and collective confidence to undertake pro-environmental change in peoples’ personal and professional lives.

Championed by Dr MacKenzie-Shalders, this tool (PowerPoint presentation including embedded videos and activities and accompanying poster) is freely available for use by dietitians, nutrition professionals, and individuals who want to support pro-environmental change in a range of settings.

The pathway guide is designed using the co-authors’ combined knowledge, the Pathway to Planetary Health features 6 dimensions: 

1. Agency - vision, self-belief, confidence, strength and responsibility
2. Action - start, shift, translate, achieve and commit
3. Ascension - build, overcome, manage, challenge and progress
4. Alignment - leadership, transparency, diplomacy, values and systems
5. Alliance and Allyship - support, collaborate, represent, community and citizenship
6. Advocacy and Activism - disrupt, co-design, transform, empower and urgency

Each dimension forms part of the process of positive change – the dimensions all interact and people will move within and between each dimension, but they are all important.

45 dietitian participants at a Dietitians Australia conference reporting a statistically significant change in confidence to undertake pro-environmental change in their personal lives, from 4.1 ± 0.7/5 to 4.5 ± 0.8/5 and professional lives from 3.6 ± 1.0/5 to 4.3 ± 0.9/5 when undertaking a workshop that showcased the Pathway to Planetary Health.

Access the Pathway to Planetary Health Poster below and accompanying materials here ,  the Pathway to Planetary Health associated journal article is freely available.