This 7-week teaching program at Brighton and Sussex Medical School allows students to explore the impact of the healthcare industry on the environment.
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 Canadian article differentiates between 'ecological' and ‘environmental’ determinants of health.
Gillian Parker, Whitney Berta, Christine Shea, Fiona Miller
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
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.
Very excitingly, the AOMRC has finally published its report, "Training for better outcomes: Developing quality improvement into practice", including a QI curriculum which embeds sustainab
Congratulations and thanks to SanYuMay for this extremely helpful article summarising current knowledge on how sustainable healthcare can be incorporated into the medical curriculum.
RCN resources to use in your workplace to raise awareness of appropriate glove use - these include a poster, a leaflet and a selfie board.
Our article published today! "The contribution of anaesthesia to the environmental impact of healthcare is significant and visible, but amenable to change.
2 papers published in the Future Healthcare Journal put forward a simple approach for incorporating sustainability into mainstream QI methodologies: the ‘SusQI’ framework.&n
Interested in becoming a SHE representative for your university? We are looking for students and staff to join our growing network.
The University of Westminster has published an excellent explanatory document on social prescription.
Background: Global environmental change is associated with significant health threats.
Slides from workshop at COT Annual Conference 2016.
