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Author Gerwig, Kathy, author

Title Greening health care : how hospitals can heal the planet / Kathy Gerwig
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2015]

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Contents Launching a green revolution in health care -- The health implications of climate change -- The business case for total health -- Food for health -- Managing and minimizing hospital waste -- Green chemicals and the detoxing of health care -- Environmentally preferable purchasing: what we buy matters -- Greening the built health care environment -- Measuring and reporting: sustainability gets sophisticated -- Community benefit and the determinants of health
Summary "The relationship between hospitals and the environment is defined by a glaring contradiction: as health care facilities deliver care at any cost, their environmental footprint -- pollution, waste production, unsustainable food services -- contributes to harming community health. Greening Health Care examines the intersections of health care and environmental health, both in terms of traditional failures and the revolution underway to fix them. Authored by one of the pioneers in health care's green movement, it presents practical solutions for health care organizations and clinicians to improve their environments and the health of their communities. Topics include: making food services sustainable, managing hospital waste, and relevant impacts/mitigating measures related to climate change. As environmental protection grows into an imperative for all aspects of society, Greening Health Care offers an historical and practical approach to sustainable health care delivery"--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Hospital buildings -- United States -- Design and construction
Hospital buildings -- Environmental engineering -- United States
Conservation of natural resources -- United States.
Environmental health -- United States
Conservation of natural resources.
Environmental health.
Hospital buildings -- Maintenance and repair.
Hospital Design and Construction
Conservation of Natural Resources
Environmental Health
Maintenance and Engineering, Hospital
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Hospital buildings -- Maintenance and repair
Conservation of natural resources
Environmental health
Hospital buildings -- Design and construction
Hospital buildings -- Environmental engineering
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199385843
019938584X
1306949165
9781306949163