A5068034384- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Global Health Care Issues
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Healthcare Systems and Technology
- Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
University of Exeter
2018-2025
National Health Service
2009-2020
Christ University
2019
NHS England
2013-2018
Public Health England
2013-2018
Institute for Sustainable Development
2011-2016
Fulbourn Hospital
2008-2015
London School of Economics and Political Science
2011
Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry
2010
Institute of Public Health Bengaluru
1997-2002
BackgroundHealth-care services are necessary for sustaining and improving human wellbeing, yet they have an environmental footprint that contributes to environment-related threats health. Previous studies quantified the carbon emissions resulting from health care at a global level. We aimed provide assessment of wide-ranging impacts this sector.MethodsIn multiregional input-output analysis, we evaluated contribution health-care sectors in driving damage turn puts risk. Using supply-chain...
The healthcare sector has a profound responsibility and opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions limit the widespread health harms of climate change. <b>Renee N Salas colleagues</b> chart path net zero for
There is anecdotal evidence that general practitioners are being flooded with guidelines.
Increases in gross domestic product (GDP) beyond a threshold of basic needs do not lead to further increases well-being. An explanation is that material consumption (MC) also results negative health externalities. We assess how these externalities influence six factors critical for well-being: (i) healthy food; (ii) active body; (iii) mind; (iv) community links; (v) contact with nature; and (vi) attachment possessions. If environmentally sustainable (ESC) were increasingly substituted MC,...
Chemical pollution is considered one of the nine planetary boundaries, and increasing evidence suggests that we are already operating outside this, risking irreversible environmental change.1Persson L Carney Almroth BM Collins CD et al.Outside safe space boundary for novel entities.Environ Sci Technol. 2022; 56: 1510-1521Crossref PubMed Scopus (301) Google Scholar Pharmaceutical chemicals vital components modern health care, but their contamination global waterways threatening human health,...
Health systems are large contributors to national carbon footprints. David Pencheon and Jeremy Wight examine what we know about how reduce emissions
This is the first of five articles on ways managing demand for health care The challenge meeting public services that are free at point use increasing. Examples, in increasing order complexity and controversy, include water, higher education, road space, care. These perceived as important to society general, rising rapidly unsustainably. Such increases can be managed either by reducing demand—, example, charging, water or space—or supply—, via increased funding, with student loans. In...