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For a greener ICU, we call for healthcare researchers to measure the environmental benefits of interventions to limit low-value care, and for healthcare practitioners to increase implementation of…

The article explores sustainable environmental antimicrobial use and four sustainability principles (prevention, patient engagement, lean service delivery, and low carbon alternatives) that infection…

Sustainable sourcing, use, and disposal of personal protective equipment (PPE) can help healthcare providers reduce the environmental impacts of their work. In this article we review supporting…

This narrative review of reviews does not look at the impact of nature’s provision on human health/well-being through material resources (e.g., food, fuel, medicine), but instead the impact of…

Recently, microplastic accumulation was observed in the human placenta, raising important questions related to the biological effects of these contaminants on the health of pregnancies and offspring.

This issue of the Journal also addresses the impact of climate change on emerging and re-emerging viral threats

UK retrospective, cohort, healthCARe-Based envirONmental cost of treatment (CARBON) study estimated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the UK associated with the management of well-controlled versus…

This paper provides information and makes recommendations for the public health community to influence and support dietary behaviours through planting and harvesting food-producing trees and hedges.

Intravenous paracetamol (acetaminophen) - 12 times more carbon emissions than the oral Glass vials - higher greenhouse gas emissions than plastic "Intravenous administration should be reserved…

Abstract BackgroundHuman health is inextricably linked to planetary health. The desire to nurture and protect both concurrently requires the mitigation of healthcare-associated environmental harms…