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Harvard school of public health climate change and health podcasts

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27 Apr 2017
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These 15/20 minute entry-level podcasts recorded in February 2017 look at what we know about the way in which climate change affects health and the steps we can take. Both are interviews with Dr Aaron…
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JOIN US on the 29th June - quality improvement, international collaboration and sustainable kidney care

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25 Apr 2017
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Building on all the fantastic work achieved in Green Nephrology since 2008 and following on from the commitment shown to high quality and low carbon kidney care, the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare…
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Naturally Healthy?

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6 Apr 2017
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Rachel Stancliffe
On 2nd March CSH and the Ecosystems Knowledge Network delivered a Valuing Nature Programme event to ensure that tools and methods are available to demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of addressing…
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Getting the ball rolling on a domestic level

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21 Mar 2017
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James Warham
As a long term home heamodialysis patient who's just moved house, I've now come across a suprise, and perhaps challenge of continuing to recycle and process my domestic contaminated and non…
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National health organisations make their commitments to sustainable development

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30 Jan 2017
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Ingeborg Steinbach
The Department of Health and eight major health organisations have stated their organisational commitments to deliver a socially and environmentally sustainable health and care system. The…
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New report 'Good practice in social prescribing for mental health: The role of nature-based interventions'

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20 Jan 2017
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Ingeborg Steinbach
The report 'Good practice in social prescribing for mental health: The role of nature-based interventions', published today on gov.uk, sets out the benefits of social prescribing for mental health,…
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Choosing Wisely

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8 Nov 2016
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A recent report from the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, after consultation with medical colleges and faculties, identified a list of treatments or procedures that were considered to be of…
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US nursing union's support for action on climate change and health

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13 Oct 2016
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I have just learned that the US nursing union, National Nurses United (NNU), 2015 Resolution Booklet includes a section on 'Environmental & Climate Justice'. The full text is very comprehensive and…
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£2.2 billion public health payoff from green spaces

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23 Sep 2016
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The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare welcomes a study, reported in the journal “Preventative Medicine”, which has calculated that the public purse benefits to the tune of £2.2 billion each year, from…
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Physical inactivity: economic costs to NHS clinical commissioning groups

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28 May 2016
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This short report from Public Health England provides analysis based on NHS England's 2010 to 2014 programme budgeting data. It looks at population attributable fractions for ischaemic heart disease,…