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Getting started
If you are interested in an overview of key ideas about sustainability / climate change and health care, here are some useful starting points:
Ossebaard, H. C., & Lachman, P. (2021). Climate change, environmental sustainability and health care quality. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzaa036
Alami, H., Lehoux, P., Miller, F. A., Shaw, S. E., & Fortin, J.-P. (2023). An urgent call for the environmental sustainability of health systems: A “sextuple aim” to care for patients, costs, providers, population equity and the planet. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, ier, 8605825. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3616
Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (UK)
"Sustainability in Quality Improvement (SusQI) is an approach to improving healthcare in a holistic way, by assessing quality and value through the lens of a “triple bottom line”."
Yale Center on Climate Change and Health (US)
"The Yale Center on Climate Change and Health (CCCH) utilizes Yale's multidisciplinary expertise and global reach [...] to address one of the greatest public health challenges of the 21st century."
Climate change and health in the Australian context
AMA position statement: https://www.ama.com.au/position-statement/environmental-sustainability-health-care-2019
NSQHS: The Commission has drafted a Sustainable Healthcare Module that has recently undergone public consultation, and is due to be revised in March, 2023.
Doctors for the Environment Australia twitter feed
Current articles about climate change & health
Library resources
