Healthcare is a major emitter of environmental pollutants that adversely affect health. Within
the healthcare community, awareness of these effects is low, and recognition of the duty to …

There is increasing concern within the health-care community about the role care delivery
plays in environmental degradation, sparking research into how to reduce pollution from …

An up-to-date assessment of environmental emissions in the US health care sector is
essential to help policy makers hold the health care industry accountable to protect public …

Background Health-care services are necessary for sustaining and improving human
wellbeing, yet they have an environmental footprint that contributes to environment-related …

Climate change confronts the health care sector with a dual challenge. Accumulating climate
impacts are putting an increased burden on the service provision of already stressed health …

This book builds an essential bridge between climate change and social policy. Combining
ethics and human need theory with political economy and climate science, it offers a long …

Background Climate change is a major global public health priority. The delivery of health-
care services generates considerable greenhouse gas emissions. Operating theatres are a …

Background Carbon footprints stemming from health care have been found to be variable,
from 3% of the total national CO 2 equivalent (CO 2 e) emissions in England to 10% of the …

The US health care sector is highly interconnected with industrial activities that emit much of
the nation's pollution to air, water, and soils. We estimate emissions directly and indirectly …

Methods: A systematic review was conducted in accordance with PRISMA guidelines. The
Cochrane Database, Embase, Ovid MEDLINE, and PubMed were searched and inclusion …