Australian public hospitals’ energy choices are at odds with “first, do no harm.” The health care sector faces many of the consequences of climate change but is lagging behind in tackling its own contribution to this health threat. Increases in extreme weather are contributing to adverse physical, [...]
The Climate and Health Alliance, made up of Australian health and medical groups, has sent a letter to the prime minister calling for scaled up climate action to avoid escalating health threats.
Climate change requires collective action across many government, non‐government and private sectors. The development of a shared terminology to conduct, share and use research will be critical to the effective communication and collaboration needed to achieve this collective action. At the same time, climate change mitigation and [...]
The glossary aims to support collaborations on health and climate change by facilitating communication in building cross-sectoral partnerships with research end-users and translating research outcomes into policies and practices in the Australian context.
This project set out to estimate the carbon footprint of five common hospital pathology tests: full blood examination; urea and electrolyte levels; coagulation profile; C-reactive protein concentration; and arterial blood gases. Although the carbon footprints were small, millions of tests are performed each year in [...]