Reducing Pollution From the Health Care Industry

Reducing Pollution From the Health Care Industry

This Viewpoint summarizes what is known about greenhouse gas emissions and pollution generated by health care activities in high-income countries, calls for cooperation between stakeholders (physicians, hospital administrators, regulatory bodies, specialty societies, policy makers, industry) to redu...

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Veröffentlicht in:JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2019-09, Vol.322 (11), p.1043-1044
Hauptverfasser: Sherman, Jodi D, MacNeill, Andrea, Thiel, Cassandra
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Environmental impact
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases
Health care
Physicians
Pollution
Pollution control
Resource management
Sustainability science
Waste management
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Zusammenfassung:This Viewpoint summarizes what is known about greenhouse gas emissions and pollution generated by health care activities in high-income countries, calls for cooperation between stakeholders (physicians, hospital administrators, regulatory bodies, specialty societies, policy makers, industry) to reduce the environmental footprint of their collective activities, and calls for funding of environmental sustainability science to inform the effort and optimize resource and waste management.
ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2019.10823