Climate change mitigation and healthcare sector sustainability

PJ Beggs, A McGushin, M Romanello… - … Handbook of Climate …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
Human activities have resulted in global warming at a rate not seen in at least 2,000 years,
leading to changes in precipitation, loss of glaciers and sea ice, temperature extremes, and …

CLIMATE ACTION AND HEALTHCARE-AN IRISH

P Crowley, R Breen, C O'Hehir - Routledge Handbook of Climate …, 2024 - books.google.com
The severity of the impact of climate change on the health sector is becoming increasingly
clear. As arguably the greatest challenge humanity will face this century, climate change …

[PDF][PDF] Health promotion and climate change in health care organizations: mitigation and adaptation strategies

O Groene, MN Lin - 2024 - hphnet.org
The well-established negative impacts of climate change on both human health and the
environment are largely attributed to human activities, with the emission of greenhouse …

The elephant in the room in greenhouse gases emissions: rethinking healthcare systems to face climate change. A rapid scoping review

W Cristiano, C De Marchi, K di Domenico… - Environmental Sciences …, 2024 - Springer
Healthcare systems (HSs) provide essential services to populations yet require a large
amount of energy to perform duties and tasks. Specifically, 4.4% of global net carbon …

The Health Sector

MG Iglesias - Elgar Encyclopedia of Climate Policy, 2024 - elgaronline.com
The health sector is a priority for national climate change adaptation and affords many
challenges and opportunities to strengthen nations' resiliency in the face of climate change …

Climate action and healthcare—an Irish perspective

P Crowley, R Breen, C O'Hehir - … of Climate Change and Health System … - taylorfrancis.com
The Health Services Executive (HSE) recognises it has a significant role to play in becoming
a more sustainable healthcare provider. There is an opportunity to help tackle the climate …

Climate-smart healthcare: What does it entail?

J Karliner, S Manogaran - Climate Change and the Health Sector, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Climate change is a looming threat that risks unravelling decades of development in human
health. In the last ten years, incidents of heat stress, water scarcity, malnutrition, flooding …

Climate-friendly healthcare: reducing the impacts of the healthcare sector on the world's climate

W Leal Filho, JM Luetz, UD Thanekar, MAP Dinis… - Sustainability …, 2024 - Springer
If the global healthcare sector were a country, it would be the fifth-largest carbon emitter,
also producing massive volumes of waste. A revolutionary transition to an environmentally …

Global health and climate change: moving from denial and catastrophic fatalism to positive action

A Costello, M Maslin, H Montgomery… - … of the Royal …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The health effects of climate change have had relatively little attention from climate scientists
and governments. Climate change will be a major threat to population health in the current …

Implications for professions, work and management in healthcare

S Bishop - Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Health …, 2024 - books.google.com
There are global efforts to consider the inter-relationship between environmental
sustainability and healthcare. It is widely recognised that a changing climate will place …