Article: Environmental impact of Personal Protective Equipment supplied to health and social care services in England in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This article by CSH's Sustainable Surgery Fellow, Chantelle Rizan, and co-authors, provides greenhouse gas emission factors for the different healthcare waste streams in the UK.
Background: Health-care services are necessary for sustaining and improving human wellbeing, yet they have an environmental footprint that contributes to environment-related threats to human health
Health Care’s Climate Footprint: How the Health Secto
Resources on climate change and health have been developed by the Faculty of Public Health Sustainable Development Special Interest Group.
The University of Westminster has published an excellent explanatory document on social prescription.
A ten-point summary of best practice for mental health teams to improve respiratory outcomes for people with mental health problems developed by the London Respiratory Network. &nb
On 12th May 2016 at the annual liaison faculty conference in Birmingham, Drs Ahmed, Bashford and Davison presented this poster and other poster publications from the CSH.
Includes a growing body of published work on sustainability in mental health.
Interesting in-depth interview with George Marshall of the Climate Outreach and Information Network
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.
Increased walking and cycling in urban areas and reduced use of private cars could have positive effects on many health outcomes.
