HealthcareLCA: an open-access living database of health-care environmental impact assessments

J Drew, SD Christie, D Rainham… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Anthropogenic environmental change negatively effects human health and is increasing
health-care system demand. Paradoxically, the provision of health care, which itself is a …

Guiding principles for the next generation of health-care sustainability metrics

MJ Eckelman, U Weisz, PP Pichler… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Metrics for health-care sustainability are crucial for tracking progress and understanding the
advantages of different operations or systems as the health-care sector addresses the …

Strategies and tactics to reduce the impact of healthcare on climate change: systematic review

J Braithwaite, CL Smith, E Leask, S Wijekulasuriya… - bmj, 2024 - bmj.com
Objective To review the international literature and assess the ways healthcare systems are
mitigating and can mitigate their carbon footprint, which is currently estimated to be more …

What did you do to avoid the climate disaster? A call to arms for health informatics

E Coiera, F Magrabi - Journal of the American Medical …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The effects of human-induced climate change on our planet are already largely irreversible
for many centuries 1 and may remain so for at least 1000 years. 2 If emissions continue to …

[PDF][PDF] Designing digital health applications for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Z Lokmic‐Tomkins, A Borda, K Humphrey - Medical Journal of Australia, 2023 - mja.com.au
Digital health, an integrated approach using digital technologies and platforms to improve
health care outcomes, has emerged as a key tool to reduce health care's approximately 5 …

[BOOK][B] Operational framework for building climate resilient and low carbon health systems

World Health Organization - 2023 - books.google.com
Page 1 Operational framework for building climate resilient and low carbon health systems P ZER EI
D World Health Organization Page 2 Page 3 Operational framework for building climate resilient and …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change and cardiovascular health: Recent updates and actions for healthcare

JK Malhi, JW McEvoy, RS Blumenthal… - American Heart Journal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate change is a public health crisis predominantly due to fossil fuel combustion, that
challenges planetary and human health. Considerable evidence exists to demonstrate the …

[HTML][HTML] Greening Healthcare: Exploring Economic and Ecological Synergies in the Pursuit of Net-Zero Carbon Futures

M Afjal, J Trivedi - Sustainable Futures, 2024 - Elsevier
This bibliometric review critically examines the economic and ecological synergies within
sustainable healthcare, emphasizing the sector's significant role in global carbon emissions …

Effect of alternative dosing strategies of pembrolizumab and nivolumab on health-care emissions in the Netherlands: a carbon footprint analysis

R Malmberg, JH Loosveld, HP Schilte… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background Hospitals contribute substantially to greenhouse gas emissions and face a
moral obligation to prioritise emission reduction. Drugs constitute an important component of …

Primary healthcare's carbon footprint and sustainable strategies to mitigate its contribution: a sco** review

SJ Walsh, A O'Leary, C Bergin, S Lee, Á Varley… - BMC health services …, 2024 - Springer
Background The escalating climate crisis poses a significant threat to global public health.
The healthcare sector, designed to protect human health is a major contributor to …