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Hospital services and care pathways have a large climate impact. Quantifying the carbon footprint and identifying hotspots enables targeted and prioritized mitigation efforts. Even for similar…

It is well established that the climate crisis threatens global public health, and the healthcare sector, tasked with protecting human well-being, is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.…

We aimed to identify, collate, and summarise published evidence on the impacts of interventions to reduce low-value care in intensive care units (ICUs). Multiple evidence-based…

The article proposes some ways in which carbon footprints can be used to inform strategy for sustainable healthcare and highlights areas to apply caution.

doi:https://doi.org/10.29333/ejeph/15212

In-hospital promotion of the oral route and IV to oral switch (IVOST) are key antimicrobial stewardship (AS) initiatives providing benefits for patients, staff and the environment, including reduced…

(from abstract) This studymeasured the extent of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) contamination in the English national parks by monitoring 54 APIs in 37 rivers across all national parks over…

Paper conducted at UCL School of Pharmacy exploring pharmacy and pharmaceutical students’ intentions tolearn about their roles in environmental sustainability and the factor associated with such…

This study reports on the carbon footprint of a Dutch hospital (Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam).

Abstract The healthcare sector is a significant producer of greenhouse gas emissions. Gases that contribute to climate change include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons.…