Executive Summary The Lancet Countdown is an international, multidisciplinary
collaboration, dedicated to monitoring the evolving health profile of climate change, and …

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 …

Background Climate change threatens to undermine the past 50 years of gains in public
health. In response, the National Health Service (NHS) in England has been working since …

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 …

The still escalating COVID-19 pandemic also has a substantial impact on energy structure,
requirements and related emissions. The consumption is unavoidable and receives a lower …

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 …

COVID-19 has been sweeping the world. The overall number of infected persons has been
increased from 5 M in March 2020 to over 22 M in August 2020 and growing, which seems …

The detrimental health effects of climate change continue to increase. Although health
systems respond to this disease burden, healthcare itself pollutes the atmosphere, land, and …

Objective Procedure-intense specialties, such as surgery or endoscopy, are a major
contributor to the impact of the healthcare sector on the environment. We aimed to measure …