Public Health: A Political Toolbox to Reduce Violation of Earth

Modern medicine consumes considerable resources of the Earth. This has indirectly contributed significantly to the violation of Earth. Resource-consuming examinations, however, and therapies for diseases can be reduced by prevention. Thus, with the prevention, an indirect contribution to the reduction of injury to the Earth can be achieved. If prevention takes place at the macro level, millions or even billions of people can be addressed at the national or international level simultaneously. Public and global health science options include non-communicable disease prevention, management of infectious disease outbreaks, national and international long-term disease detection, and the timely absorption and translation of cutting-edge health-related research and technology results. Thus public and global health science may provide powerful scientific levers to reduce the use of Earth's resources by modern medicine and thus reduce the indirect violation of Earth by modern medicine.