Today WHO launches new guidance for climate resilient health systems which places preparing the workforce as one its four main strategies. See page 32/38 for details - I've excerpted
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
This is a recording of the AHP Sustainability webinar from June 18th 2020, part of the National Allied Health Professions fornightly webinar series.
This Canadian article differentiates between 'ecological' and ‘environmental’ determinants of health.
Gillian Parker, Whitney Berta, Christine Shea, Fiona Miller
An open-access recording of this webinar from September 2019 is now available via the AMEE website.
Health Care Without Harm and the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments partnered on the “Nurses Climate Challenge” with the aim of nurses educating 5,000 health professionals on climate and h
Resources on climate change and health have been developed by the Faculty of Public Health Sustainable Development Special Interest Group.
Congratulations and thanks to SanYuMay for this extremely helpful article summarising current knowledge on how sustainable healthcare can be incorporated into the medical curriculum.
Our article published today! "The contribution of anaesthesia to the environmental impact of healthcare is significant and visible, but amenable to change.
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
Case studies from 2016/17 onwards from eight medical and health professional schools in the UK, Brazil and USA.
3rd year medical students at Sheffield University have a student self selected placement in social accountability, which focusses on the social determinants of health.
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.
Background: Global environmental change is associated with significant health threats.
These slides were used to facilitate an evening talk and discussion with medical students at UNESP University in Brazil.
