The climate crisis and healthcare: What do infection prevention and stewardship professionals need to know?
The climate crisis calls for urgent action from every level of the US healthcare sector, starting with an acknowledgment of our own outsized contribution to greenhouse gas emissions (at least 8.5% of carbon emissions). As the climate continues to become warmer and wetter, the medical establishment m...
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| description | The climate crisis calls for urgent action from every level of the US healthcare sector, starting with an acknowledgment of our own outsized contribution to greenhouse gas emissions (at least 8.5% of carbon emissions). As the climate continues to become warmer and wetter, the medical establishment must deal with increasing rates of pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases, heat-related illness, and emerging infectious diseases among many other health harms. Additionally, extreme weather events are causing healthcare delivery breakdown due to physical infrastructure damage, slowed supply chains, and workforce burden. Pathways for healthcare systems to meet these challenges are emerging. They entail significant measures to mitigate our carbon footprint, embrace shared and equity-driven governance, develop new metrics of accountability, and build more resilience into our care delivery processes. We call upon SHEA to play a unique leadership role in the fight for sustainable, equitable, and efficient health care in a rapidly changing climate that immediately threatens human well-being. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6a86756644a54b63bee999a556d8ef7a2023-08-02T05:54:25ZengCambridge University PressAntimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology2732-494X2023-01-01310.1017/ash.2023.170The climate crisis and healthcare: What do infection prevention and stewardship professionals need to know?Alison G. Freifeld0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4641-9950Alexandra I. Todd1Ali S. Khan2Department of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NebraskaUniversity of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health, Omaha, NebraskaUniversity of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health, Omaha, NebraskaThe climate crisis calls for urgent action from every level of the US healthcare sector, starting with an acknowledgment of our own outsized contribution to greenhouse gas emissions (at least 8.5% of carbon emissions). As the climate continues to become warmer and wetter, the medical establishment must deal with increasing rates of pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases, heat-related illness, and emerging infectious diseases among many other health harms. Additionally, extreme weather events are causing healthcare delivery breakdown due to physical infrastructure damage, slowed supply chains, and workforce burden. Pathways for healthcare systems to meet these challenges are emerging. They entail significant measures to mitigate our carbon footprint, embrace shared and equity-driven governance, develop new metrics of accountability, and build more resilience into our care delivery processes. We call upon SHEA to play a unique leadership role in the fight for sustainable, equitable, and efficient health care in a rapidly changing climate that immediately threatens human well-being.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2732494X23001705/type/journal_article |
| spellingShingle | Alison G. Freifeld Alexandra I. Todd Ali S. Khan The climate crisis and healthcare: What do infection prevention and stewardship professionals need to know? Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology |
| title | The climate crisis and healthcare: What do infection prevention and stewardship professionals need to know? |
| title_full | The climate crisis and healthcare: What do infection prevention and stewardship professionals need to know? |
| title_fullStr | The climate crisis and healthcare: What do infection prevention and stewardship professionals need to know? |
| title_full_unstemmed | The climate crisis and healthcare: What do infection prevention and stewardship professionals need to know? |
| title_short | The climate crisis and healthcare: What do infection prevention and stewardship professionals need to know? |
| title_sort | climate crisis and healthcare what do infection prevention and stewardship professionals need to know |
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