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An article from an Indian nursing journal considering the need for changes to nursing education to cover the prevalence of zoonotic infections in communities. With public health and preventative…
When looking at implementing a curriculum for sustainable healthcare, it has been really difficult to find publications that focus on the HOW as opposed to the WHY. I was very pleased to find this…
This occasional paper is making the case for using patient-level information and costing systems (PLICS) and service line reporting (SLR) for carbon accounting purposes.
Propellants in metered dose inhalers are powerful greenhouse gases. It is five years since the Climate Change Act (2008) was introduced to ensure that by 2050 the United Kingdom cuts its carbon…
One Blue Dot is the BDA's Environmentally Sustainable Diet Project, created to help make theirSustainable Diets Policya reality. Includes a toolkit of information, graphics, tools and links to help…
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Abstract:Current dialysis technologies require vast quantities of pure water; however, water is a finite resource and water scarcity is increasing…
The study uses Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to evaluate the carbon footprints of 3 vaginal speculum: a single-use acrylic and two reusable stainless steel. Overall, both types of reusables were found…
Published date
August 2020
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by
Donahue LM, Hilton S, Bell SG, Williams BC, Keoleian GA.
ABSTRACT
High-technology medicine saves lives and produces waste; this is the case of dialysis. The increasing amounts of waste products can be biologically dangerous in different ways: some…
