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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…
Published inOrthopaedics and Traumajournal, the article is an international collaboration between healthcare professionals and students in Sweden and the UK, including physiotherapist and long-time…
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14 Oct 2022 •
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Palstam, A., Sehdev, S., Barna, S., Andersson, M., & Liebenberg, N.
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The impact of unmitigated climate change upon global health is predicted to be disastrous. However, the very provision of healthcare…
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Climate change represents a major global public health threat. The very provision of healthcare itself has a significant untoward effect on the environment, to which kidney care is likely…
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The US Environmental Protection Agency Resource Conservation website begins: “Natural resource and energy conservation is achieved by…
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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…
This article explores systems theory and behaviour change for environmentally sustainable orthopaedics and trauma healthcare, but the main principles are transferrable to all types of healthcare…