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The environmental footprint of health care: a global assessment

(3 days ago) WEBEnhancing health-care expenditure to mitigate negative health effects of environmental damage is often promoted by health-care practitioners. However, global supply chains that feed into the enhanced activity of health-care sectors in turn initiate adverse feedback …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(20)30121-2/fulltext

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Health Care Pollution And Public Health Damage In …

(Just Now) WEBInternational comparison of health care carbon footprints. Environ Res Lett. Eliminating waste in US health care. JAMA. 2012;307(14):1513– 6. Crossref, Medline

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01247

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Hospitals race to save patients — and the planet AAMC

(5 days ago) WEBMore than half of health care’s carbon footprint comes from energy use, according to the HCWH report, which recommends a “transition to clean, renewable energy and transportation.” Reducing or recycling such …

https://www.aamc.org/news/hospitals-race-save-patients-and-planet

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Environmental Effects of Healthcare Commonwealth Fund

(7 days ago) WEBWhat makes up the carbon footprint of the U.S. health system? The sectors contributing the most to carbon emissions in the health system are hospital care (36%), …

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/explainer/2022/apr/how-us-health-care-system-contributes-climate-change

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The carbon footprint of healthcare settings: A systematic review

(8 days ago) WEBCurrent healthcare practice should be assessed at all levels, for example by creating or reviewing pathways and policies to not only reduce the carbon footprint …

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jan.15671

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The environmental footprint of health care: a global assessment

(7 days ago) WEBThe carbon footprint of health care has been calculated previously in specific countries, including the UK, 6 the USA, 7 Australia, 8 Canada, 9 China, 10 Japan, 11 …

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542519620301212

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Why Health Care Needs Sustainable Waste Stream Management

(Just Now) WEBHealth professionals share ethical obligations to critically examine the sector’s carbon footprint, divest from fossil fuels, and reduce solid waste production by investing in …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/why-health-care-needs-sustainable-waste-stream-management/2022-10

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Sustainability in Healthcare: Perspectives and Reflections …

(3 days ago) WEBActing too late in reducing our environmental footprint will pose major public health and environmental risks. Solutions, ranging from waste reduction to collection …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7591295/

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Tonnes of COVID-19 health care waste expose urgent need to

(2 days ago) WEBTens of thousands of tonnes of extra medical waste from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has put tremendous strain on health care waste management …

https://www.who.int/news/item/01-02-2022-tonnes-of-covid-19-health-care-waste-expose-urgent-need-to-improve-waste-management-systems

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Health Care Waste and Climate Change - PMC - National Center …

(3 days ago) WEBThe AJPH issue on wasteful medical care spending is excellent. 1 Many sound reasons to root out waste are cited: the vast expenses we can ill afford, the avoidable suffering …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7958076/

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Here's how healthcare can reduce its carbon footprint

(8 days ago) WEBHere's how healthcare can reduce its carbon footprint Oct 24, 2022. It is time to extend the principle of “first, do no harm” – the very foundation of healthcare – to …

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/cop27-how-healthcare-can-reduce-carbon-footprint/

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Health Care Sustainability Metrics: Building A Safer, Low-Carbon …

(Just Now) WEBThe health sector’s contribution to damaging and degrading the natural environment has become increasingly clear in recent years. A 2019 estimate places …

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01103

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These doctors are trying to lower hospitals' carbon footprint : NPR

(6 days ago) WEBThe American health care system accounts for an estimated 8.5% of the country's carbon footprint. This sector emits climate warming pollution through a variety …

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/02/1202389187/hospitals-climate-change

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Decarbonizing Health Care: Engaging Leaders in Change

(4 days ago) WEBThe Paris Agreement of 2015 contained national commitments across sectors and businesses. In close alignment, in 2022 the U.S. Department of Health and …

https://catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/CAT.22.0433

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Health care climate footprint report Health Care Without Harm

(2 days ago) WEBIf the global health care sector were a country, it would be the fifth-largest greenhouse gas emitter on the planet, according to Health care’s climate footprint: How the health …

https://noharm-global.org/documents/health-care-climate-footprint-report

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Past, present, and future of sustainable intensive care: narrative

(9 days ago) WEBWaste in critical care has been of the topic of great interest to researchers and practitioners alike [17, The environmental footprint of health care: a global …

https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-024-04937-9

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Measuring and projecting global health sector emissions

(6 days ago) WEBhealth care climate footprint (56%). The top 10 health care emitters make up 75% of the global health care climate footprint (Figure 5). The United States health sector is the …

https://healthcareclimateaction.org/sites/default/files/2022-05/HCWH%20Road%20Map%20for%20Health%20Care%20Decarbonization%20-%20Chapters%202%20and%203_2.pdf

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Health in the green economy - World Health Organization

(8 days ago) WEBfootprint. Some 15–25% of health care waste is infectious waste; 3% is chemical or pharmaceutical waste; radioactive/cytotoxic waste accounts for less than 1%.1 …

https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/climate-change/health-co-benefits-of-climate-change-mitigation---healthcare-facilities3810d092-f005-4157-94e8-a1b17334f3af.pdf?sfvrsn=cf64a8fd_1&download=true

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Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Our Health Care Systems While …

(7 days ago) WEBThe mission of Health Care Without Harm is “to transform healthcare worldwide so the sector reduces its environmental footprint and becomes a leader in …

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1541461222001161

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Health care has a huge environmental footprint, which then harms …

(2 days ago) WEBThe environmental impact of health care is both a practical and ethical issue for health-care professionals. In 2015, more than 460,000 premature deaths were …

https://theconversation.com/health-care-has-a-huge-environmental-footprint-which-then-harms-health-this-is-a-matter-of-ethics-142651

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Health care climate footprint report Health Care Without Harm

(9 days ago) WEBIf the global health care sector were a country, it would be the fifth-largest greenhouse gas emitter on the planet, according to Health care’s climate footprint: How the health …

https://noharm-uscanada.org/content/global/health-care-climate-footprint-report

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The potential of virtual healthcare technologies to reduce …

(1 days ago) WEBIntroduction The potential of virtual healthcare technologies to reduce healthcare services’ carbon footprint. Healthcare services have become one of the …

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1394095/full

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Minimizing the carbon footprint of ophthalmic surgeries

(5 days ago) WEBCounterintuitively, the health care sector is itself a greenhouse gas emitter,” Taboun said. Surgery contributes significant emissions to the environment through the …

https://www.ophthalmologytimes.com/view/minimizing-the-carbon-footprint-of-ophthalmic-surgeries

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