This powerpoint, presented at the AMEE conference, includes a series of quotes from KCLmedical students' essaysafter a ‘climate change’ workshop, covering direct and indirect impacts, healthy equity,…
This slide set is from the WHO's Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, and covers Climate Change, Health and the role of the Health ProfessionIt covers:Determinants of health and which are…
This slide set from NHS England is an introduction to why sustainability is important for the NHS. It includes a breakdown of NHS emissions, where there is potential for reductions and an introduction…
Update on SHE Network activities in 2011-12 - including award of HEA grant, GMC liaison, draft curriculum consultation, conference presentations and workshops, publications by SHE members.
Dissertation by Caroline Tomes, reading for MPhil in Public Health, University of Cambridge 2010-11. (Thesis supervised by Stefi Barna, University of East Anglia)
Objective: Climate change has been…
"Turning the NHS into an environmentally sustainable organisation will take more than switching off the lights in unused rooms. Rather, it demands a complete overhaul of attitudes and behaviour."…
Two final year medical students in Oxford took part in a two-week special study module (SSM) on “Sustainable Healthcare” in 2011-12. The students each chose to focus on one of the four dimensions of…
The Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE) network was begun in June 2009 by a group of clinicians, academics and students interested in supporting the goals of NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy (2009) by…
This second year SSC allowed students to form groups and work on a project to communicate health and sustainability issues to a specific population of their choice.
These examples are from groups…