Greening health care : how hospitals can heal the planet /

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"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 Healt...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gerwig, Kathy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
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
Hôpitaux (Édifices) > États-Unis > Conception et construction.
Hôpitaux (Édifices) > Technique de l'environnement > États-Unis.
Conservation des ressources naturelles.
Hygiène du milieu.
Hôpitaux (Édifices) > Entretien et réparations.
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
United States
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Table of 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.

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