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- Title
Healthcare Sustainability to Address Climate Change: Call for Action to the Infectious Diseases Community.
- Authors
Doshi, Shreya; Vuppula, Sharon; Jaggi, Preeti
- Abstract
The US healthcare system's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change is disproportionately high and harms the public. Several medical specialties are now reassessing how they can mitigate healthcare's harmful environmental impact. Healthcare sustainability is broadly defined as measures to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, waste, and other pollutants generated during the healthcare delivery process. Prior efforts and programs by infectious diseases (ID) professionals, such as antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention and control can form a framework for ID professionals to help apply this expertise to healthcare environmental sustainability more broadly. This call to action proposes strategies for ID societies and professionals to incorporate climate change education for trainees, increase research and funding opportunities in healthcare sustainability, and calls for action by ID societies to champion system changes to decrease greenhouse gas emissions.
- Subjects
UNITED States; GREENHOUSE effect prevention; INFECTION prevention; COMMUNICABLE diseases; CLIMATE change; MEDICAL care; ANTIMICROBIAL stewardship; SUSTAINABILITY; MEDICAL research; ENDOWMENT of research; HEALTH care industry; GREENHOUSE gases
- Publication
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 2024, Vol 13, Issue 6, p306
- ISSN
2048-7193
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jpids/piae029