We describe a clinical-skills based approach to teaching medical and public health students the health effects of climate change. This resource presents eleven simulation exercises used with
Short animation to raise awareness of the NHS contribution to environmental issues such as climate change and air pollution, and encourage health professionals to look for environmentally friendly
Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE)
Keele University Medical School educators have developed their own cases based around four prominent types of waste within the NHS: food, pharmaceutical, clinical and fuel, which they have given pe
Case studies from 2016/17 onwards from eight medical and health professional schools in the UK, Brazil and USA.
2 papers published in the Future Healthcare Journal put forward a simple approach for incorporating sustainability into mainstream QI methodologies: the ‘SusQI’ framework.&n
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The University of Westminster has published an excellent explanatory document on social prescription.
Background: Global environmental change is associated with significant health threats.
Environmental change poses pressing challenges to public health and calls for profound and far-reaching changes to policy and practice across communities and health systems.
These slides were used to facilitate an evening talk and discussion with medical students at UNESP University in Brazil.
Sustainability has been recognised as a domain of quality in healthcare, and building it into quality improvement (QI) is a practical way to drive incremental change towards a more ethical, sustain
This video outlines the process of developing a health professions curriculum on environmental sustainability and health in the United States.
A useful resource about how to teach on social (including environmental) determinants of health.
See case study 6 in particular!
This half hour video looks at the health effects of climate change in six countries around the world. It is intended to help students in medicine, nursing and public health understand the con
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) has released three new Climate Change and Health Position Statements, promoting policies to deliver the health benefits of climate action.
Video about health harm associated with environmental degradation
https://donoharmstory.org/
This clearly laid out, first level, detailing of the health effects of climate change makes an excellent learning resource or handout.
Slides from workshop at COT Annual Conference 2016.
New publication by Jane Maxwell and Grant Blashki!
