Search Tag: climate change

Executive Health Management

We-must-fight-one-of-the-worlds-biggest-health-threats-climate-change

2024 25 Jan

By  Dr  Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus , Director-General of the World Health Organization;   Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber , President-designate of COP 28 United Nations Climate Change Conference; and  Dr Vanessa Kerry , WHO Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health, CEO of Seed Global Health   In the face of one of the greatest health threats...Read more

ICU Management

Ea22-reducing-the-carbon-footprint-of-anaesthetics

2022 04 Jun

Dr Nicolaas Hendrik Sperna Weiland, anaesthesiologist, Amsterdam University Medical Center, The Netherlands, and founder of the centre's Sustainable Healthcare Team discussed the environmental impact of inhaled anaesthetic agents and the need to massively reduce their use at this year's Euroanaesthesia Congress.  Volatile anaesthetics are potent...Read more

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Infection-prevention-ip-2022

2022 17 Oct

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Health-and-the-city-the-pandemic-climate-change-and-building-smart-cities

2021 21 Sep

Moderator  Alexandre Lourenco Panellists Nimish Biloria Simona Agger Ganassi Nino Giguashvili Diane Whitehouse Raju Narayan Find Healthmanagement.Org On Social Media Read more

Health Management

The-future-of-healthcare-architecture-and-the-battle-against-covid-19-and-climate-change

2021 09 Sep

The COVID-19 pandemic presented a major challenge to healthcare systems across the globe. As the world continues to fight this battle during the fourth  wave, HealthManagement.org spoke to Daniela Pedrini, President of the International  Federation of Health Engineering (IFHE), on healthcare’s response to COVID-19, changes healthcare systems...Read more

Health Management

2021-reset-or-not-1

2021 15 Feb

As we move into 2021, and as the second wave of COVID-19 continues to rage, HealthManagement.org asked healthcare experts what they anticipate as the most significant change this year and what they would like to see in the future. Read on for a snapshot on whether healthcare in 2021 needs a reset and what could be improved. Prof Christian...Read more

Executive Health Management

Mediterranean-hospital-needed-for-low-carbon-healthcare-project

2020 21 Feb

Health Care Without Harm Europe is seeking a public hospital in the Mediterranean region to join their latest climate-smart healthcare project, Low-carbon healthcare in the Mediterranean region . The project will help to develop the Mediterranean as a best-practice region for low-carbon healthcare in Europe supported by...Read more

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Rising-climates-and-the-impact-of-healthcare

2019 16 Oct

Climate change concerns are becoming more and more difficult to ignore, with disruptions causing issues for health, businesses and people’s lives in general. To make a positive change businesses need to find ways of becoming sustainable, but how should healthcare management fit this into their ever-conflicting list of priorities?   Through the increased...Read more

Executive Health Management

Global-road-maps-required-for-healthcare

2019 18 Sep

In recent years, scientists have highlighted the urgency for countries and industries to limit carbon emissions to help mitigate the dreadful effects of climate change. Interestingly, in what seems to be a paradox, a new report cites the healthcare sector as among the world's largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters.    The report,...Read more

Executive Health Management

Climate-change-and-healthcare-architecture-1

2018 07 Nov

IFHE Vice–President hopes for more sustainability in healthcare. HealthManagement  spoke to Daniela Pedrini, a leading light in the International Federation of Health Engineering (IFHE) on the changes she wants to see taking shape in healthcare architecture in the years ahead. What are your responsibilities holding top positions...Read more

Executive Health Management

New-global-programme-for-urban-health-and-wellbeing

2014 12 Dec

World health, environmental, behavioural and social science experts have launched a major new interdisciplinary scientific collaboration that aims to achieve better health for billions of people living in fast-growing urban areas. The new global Urban Health and Wellbeing Programme has these key objectives: Empower planners and policy-makers with...Read more

Sustainability

New-global-programme-for-urban-health-and-wellbeing

2014 12 Dec

World health, environmental, behavioural and social science experts have launched a major new interdisciplinary scientific collaboration that aims to achieve better health for billions of people living in fast-growing urban areas. The new global Urban Health and Wellbeing Programme has these key objectives: Empower planners and policy-makers with...Read more