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On this page, you will find selected books, journal articles, and documents around sustainable health care services
On this page, you will find selected books, journal articles, and documents around sustainable health care services
Books
Books
This book, Climate Change Adaption for Health and Social Services, pulls together evidence and experience about what we need to do in local communities to support and protect the people most vulnerable to the current impacts of climate change in Australia. It will assist community based health and social services organizations to adapt to the current impacts of climate change in Australia.
Sustainable Healthcare Architecture, Second Edition is fully updated to incorporate the latest sustainable design approaches and information as applied to hospitals and other healthcare facilities. It is the essential guide for architects, interior designers, engineers, healthcare professionals, and administrators who want to create healthy environments for healing.
The role and influence of building services engineers are undergoing rapid change and are pivotal to achieving low-carbon buildings. This book, Building Services Design for Energy Efficient Buildings, embraces a contemporary understanding of the urgent challenge to address climate change, together with practical approaches to energy efficiency and carbon mitigation for mechanical and electrical systems.
This book, Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change, explores how Pacific Island communities are responding to the challenges wrought by climate change―most notably fresh water accessibility, the growing threat of disease, and crop failure. The Pacific Island nations are not alone in facing these challenges, but their responses are unique in that they arise from traditional and community-based understandings of climate and disaster.
Sustainable Healthcare sets out a vision for medical care of high quality, manageable cost and low impact on the planetary systems which sustain us. In tackling the major challenges of our age, such as resource depletion, loss of biodiversity and climate change, health services can play a central role, moving from being part of the problem to becoming part of the solution. This book provides a synopsis of our current predicaments, and explores some emerging solutions.
Climate Information for Public Health Action is based on the premise that climate knowledge and information can help protect the public from climate-sensitive health risks. With a focus on infectious disease, hydro-meteorological disasters and nutrition, the book explores why, when and how data on the historical, current and future (from days to decades) climate can be incorporated into health decision-making.
Climate Change and the People's Health offers a brave and ambitious new framework for understanding how our planet's two greatest existential threats comingle, complement, and amplify one another -- and what can be done to mitigate future harm.
Coordinating contributions from public health specialists and environmental scientists, the editors of Climate Change and Public Health have developed a concise and comprehensive book that represents a core curriculum on climate change and public health, including key strategies for adaptation and mitigation.
Journal Articles
Journal Articles
Latest Research & Tailored Requests
Latest Research & Tailored Requests
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Selected Articles
Selected Articles
Towards Climate Resilient and Environmentally Sustainable Health Care Facilities (2020)
The aim of building climate resilient and environmentally sustainable health care facilities is: (a) to enhance their capacity to protect and improve the health of their target communities in an unstable and changing climate; and (b) to empower them to optimize the use of resources and minimize the release of pollutants and waste into the environment. Such health care facilities contribute to high quality of care and accessibility of services and, by helping reduce facility costs, also ensure better affordability. They are an important component of universal health coverage. Action is needed in at least four areas which are fundamental requirements for providing safe and quality care: having adequate numbers of skilled human resources, with decent working conditions, empowered and informed to respond to these environmental challenges; sustainable and safe management of water, sanitation and health care waste; sustainable energy services; and appropriate infrastructure and technologies, including all the operations that allow for the efficient functioning of a health care facility. Importantly, this work contributes to promoting actions to ensure that health care facilities are constantly and increasingly strengthened and continue to be efficient and responsive to improve health and contribute to reducing inequities and vulnerability within their local settings. To this end, this article, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, proposed a framework to respond to these challenges.
Indigenous peoples have long been successful at adapting to climatic and environmental changes. However, anthropogenic climatic crisis represents an epoch of intensified colonialism which poses particular challenges to Indigenous peoples throughout the world, including those in wealthier ‘modern’ nation states. Indigenous peoples also possess worldviews and traditional knowledge systems that are critical to climate mitigation and adaptation, yet, paradoxically, these are devalued and marginalized and have yet to be recognized as essential foundations of public health. This article, published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health, provides overview of how public health policy and discourse fails Indigenous peoples living in the colonial nation states of Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand.
This narrative review, published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, examined strategies for preparedness and response to mental health impacts of three forms of climate change from a services perspective: (1) acute and extreme weather events such as hurricanes, floods, and wildfires, (2) sub-acute or long-term events such as droughts and heatwaves; and (3) the prospect of long-term and permanent changes, including higher temperatures, rising sea levels, and an uninhabitable physical environment.
General practice in the era of planetary health: Responding to the climate health emergency (2020)
It has been a decade since a landmark Lancet publication declared that 'climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century'. Since then, Australia has experienced unprecedented warming related to climate change and an associated increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, including heatwaves, droughts, storms, bushfires and air pollution. These events have had major impacts on community physical and mental health. The aim of this article, published in the Australian Journal of General Practice, is to describe the health impacts of climate change and the role of general practitioners (GPs) in responding to these impacts.
This article, published in the New Zealand Medical Journal, argues that all climate change and environmental sustainability actions by DHBs must be pro-equity, and explore how reducing health inequities and district health board (DHB) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can be addressed concurrently.
Selected Documents
Selected Documents
Compendium of WHO and other UN guidance on health and environment (2021)
This compendium provides a systematic compilation of published guidance from WHO and other UN organizations on health and environment. Guidance on policies and actions as well as awareness raising and capacity building interventions is presented for all major areas of health and environment. Guidance referring to priority settings for action such as cities and other urban settlements, housing, workplaces and health care facilities is also listed.
WHO Guidance for Climate Resilient and Environmentally Sustainable Health Care Facilities (2020)
The aim of this guidance is to enhance the capacity of health care facilities to protect and improve the health of their target communities in an unstable and changing climate; and to empower health care facilities to be environmentally sustainable, by optimizing the use of resources and minimizing the release of waste into the environment.
This thesis presents the authors experience of establishing and leading a recycling and environmental sustainability research project in the New Zealand (NZ) healthcare setting.
Sustainable Health Equity: Achieving a Net-Zero UK (2020)
The UCL Institute of Health Equity (IHE) was commissioned by the UK Committee on Climate Change (CCC) to develop recommendations that could both improve the nation’s health, reduce health inequalities and achieve Net-Zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Sustainability and the Health Sector - Ministry of Health (2019)
This publication aims to support and encourage the health sector to take an active role in incorporating sustainability practices and reducing carbon emissions. It highlights the wide-ranging benefits of sustainability and provides ideas of how health facilities in New Zealand can reduce their environmental footprints and contribute to the transition to a sustainable, low-emissions world. It also acknowledges that a multi-agency approach is required to effect change, and signals that the Ministry of Health intends to continue to work with District Health Boards and other agencies to create a knowledge base of evidence and expertise to facilitate sustainable thinking throughout the health sector.
The Lancet Countdown is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration, dedicated to monitoring the evolving health profile of climate change, and providing an independent assessment of the delivery of commitments made by governments worldwide under the Paris Agreement.
This is the first in a series of research and policy papers Health Care Without Harm and its partners, including Arup, aim to produce over the next three years. The series will define health care’s climate footprint and outline a set of actions the sector can take to align itself with the ambition of the Paris Agreement while simultaneously achieving global health goals.
Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners - Climate Change (2019)
The College believes that general practice has a key role to play in raising awareness of the impacts of climate change on health, in social leadership and the promotion of appropriate lifestyle choices and in supporting health sector movement towards sustainable systems.
New Zealand Medical Association - Health and Climate Change (2019)
This the is position statement for the New Zealand Medical Association on health and climate change.
Climate Change Toolkit for Health Professionals (2019)
This toolkit consists of eight modules which have been prepared as stand-alone documents that can be read by themselves, but they have also been prepared to complement one another. It has been designed as a tool for health professionals and students in the health care and public health sectors who want to engage more directly on the issue of climate change as educators with their patients, peers and communities, and/or as advocates for the policies, programs and practices needed to mitigate climate change and/or prepare for climate change in their workplaces and communities.
Environmentally sustainable health systems: a strategic document (2017)
Health systems are fundamental to achieving and maintaining societal health and welfare, and are key factors for development and economic growth. They also represent a large share of the economy, globally and in most Member States of the WHO European Region, and employ large workforces, notably in health care. Taken as a whole, the health sector consumes considerable amounts of energy and resources and produces major streams of emissions and waste, either directly or through the goods and services it procures, uses and disposes of. Ideally, an environmentally sustainable health system improves, maintains or restores health, while minimizing negative impacts on the environment and leveraging opportunities to restore and improve it, to the benefit of the health and well-being of current and future generations. Actions in stewardship, service delivery, resource generation and financing can contribute to these goals.
Breaking the fever: Sustainability and climate change in the NHS (2017)
This report gives an overview of the impact of climate change on healthcare in the UK, and how physicians and the NHS can contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Health Care & Climate Change: An opportunity for transformative leadership (2014)
The paper effectively makes the case that clean energy investments can help control health care costs, improve the quality of care, and reduce the environmental impact of the health care sector.
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