Do no harm: addressing the environmental impact of health care

Do no harm: addressing the environmental impact of health care

Planetary and human health are inseparably connected; yet, health-care systems produce considerable amounts of greenhouse gas emissions, waste and pollution. A growing movement to measure and mitigate the health sector’s own climate damage is underway, supported by national policies and clinical inn...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature reviews. Disease primers 2022-06, Vol.8 (1), p.38-38, Article 38
Hauptverfasser: Mortimer, Frances, Pencheon, David
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Sprache:eng
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Air pollution
Asthma
Cancer Research
Carbon
Cataracts
Climate change
Comment
Delivery of Health Care
Dengue fever
Emissions
Environment
Environmental impact
Epidemiology
Eye surgery
Food
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases
Health care
Health services
Humans
Hydrologic cycle
Inhalers
Internal Medicine
Medical Microbiology
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Outdoor air quality
Principles
Public health
Quality improvement
Quality of Life Research
Sustainable development
Tropical diseases
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Zusammenfassung:Planetary and human health are inseparably connected; yet, health-care systems produce considerable amounts of greenhouse gas emissions, waste and pollution. A growing movement to measure and mitigate the health sector’s own climate damage is underway, supported by national policies and clinical innovation.
ISSN:2056-676X
2056-676X
DOI:10.1038/s41572-022-00372-8