Speakers - WNSC 2023

Alice M. L. LI

  • Designation: Hong Kong Metropolitan University
  • Country: Hong Kong SAR China
  • Title: Planetary Health Nursing for World Health in the Anthropocene

Abstract

It is recognized that the entering of this historical new era of the Anthropocene that will create important sustainable health needs in philosophy of professional caring praxis. Planetary health nursing for world health represents the unprecedented challenges for sustainable health developments across present and future generations, together with grave implications for this evolving knowledge advocacy and health concerns as an obligatory part of professionalization towards global public health in transition at this age of eco-environmental and climate mediated health risks per se. Planetary health nursing serves for the significance of such arising rationalities at this critical time in need. And the evolution of nursing knowledge development has to be based with the progress of intellectual and scientific advancement. As the context of caring is the broadest term and the corresponding centrality that move upon with its coherent parallel relevance of knowledge development should also be made for the role expansion of nursing capability scientifically and professionally to serve and blend for the changing health needs. In the realm of caring sciences, the dogma of a focus is on the parts of the changing health needs to the greater whole of health-determining factors. Especially this is a continuing process of sustainable caring needs under the changing supremacy of deterministic rationality that in fact echoes to our legitimate expectations and notions of ‘caring needs’ towards the 22nd century. Today, the evolution of nursing knowledge demystifies the changing and expanding role to counter a new perspective of sustainable caring praxis. Thus, we have to gain insights into the global and ecological worldview phenomena of such relational complexities under the Anthropocene effects in transition alongside with the changing need in shaping our professionalization of caring under such unprecedented facts in this age of eco-environmental and climate crisis per se. This is especially so, as its enormous impacts on the sustainability of global public health. This further reinforces the need of planetary health nursing, as it comprises rationality and reasoning for our relational sense of coherence and connectivity in support of sustainable health developments across generations.

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