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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458735703321

Autore

Gerwig Kathy

Titolo

Greening health care : how hospitals can heal the planet / / Kathy Gerwig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-938585-8

0-19-938586-6

0-19-938584-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Disciplina

725.510973

Soggetti

Hospital buildings - United States - Design and construction

Hospital buildings - Environmental engineering - United States

Conservation of natural resources - United States

Environmental health - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Author; 1. Launching a Green Revolution in Health Care; 2. The Health Implications of Climate Change; 3. The Business Case for Total Health; 4. Food for Health; 5. Managing and Minimizing Hospital Waste; 6. Green Chemicals and the Detoxing of Health Care; 7. Environmentally Preferable Purchasing: What We Buy Matters; 8. Greening the Built Health Care Environment; 9. Measuring and Reporting: Sustainability Gets Sophisticated; 10. Community Benefit and the Determinants of Health; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.