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you might be interested by a recent BMJ leadership blog which looks at how planetary health is part of better primary care rather than an additional concept as well as mentioning a forthcoming book…
A multinational survey of health care professionals on the kidney health impacts of climate change and the environmental burden of kidney care was conducted.Most participants reported knowledge gaps…
The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine's Green Paper provides information and recommendations for improving environmental sustainability within intensive care clinical practice, research and…
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15 Oct 2024 •
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De Waele, J.J., Hunfeld, N., Baid, H., Ferrer, R., Iliopoulou, K., Ioan, A.M., Leone, M., Ostermann, M., Scaramuzzo, G., Theodorakopoulou, M. and Touw, H
We have described the approach we are taking to implement sustainable development objectives in the Faculty of Medicine at UNamur. We are now continuing with the creation of a new teaching unit…
Abstract - beware carbon values not included
Aims
Healthcare accounts for 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, with medicines making a sizeable contribution. Product-level medicine emission…
The article proposes some ways in which carbon footprints can be used to inform strategy for sustainable healthcare and highlights areas to apply caution.
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11 Oct 2024 •
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Chantelle Rizan, Cassandra Thiel, and Mahmood F Bhutta
Sub-optimally controlled asthma is common, leading to preventable symptoms, asthma attacks and death. This is in part because of normalisation of symptoms, underuse of preventer therapy, overuse of…
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In-hospital promotion of the oral route and IV to oral switch (IVOST)1are key antimicrobial stewardship (AS) initiatives providing benefits for patients, staff and the…
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12 Nov 2024 •
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R Rodger, A Robertson, E Thompson, K Downie, S Thompson, G Ray, L Chisholm, R Hillson
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Haemodialysis treatments generate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mainly as a result of the equipment, consumables and pharmaceuticals required. An internal audit…
