Environmentally Sustainable Primary Care (eBook, ePUB)

Good for the planet, good for practices, good for patients
Redaktion: Sawyer, Matt; Tomson, Mike

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This practical guide, for primary care, provides a context-specific introduction to the sustainability challenges associated with good healthcare delivery and provides easy-to-implement yet impactful actions that can be taken to reduce and mitigate the impact of primary care on the living world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040134535
• Artikelnr.: 72253456

Autorenporträt

Dr Matt Sawyer is a former GP, current Director of SEE Sustainability and a Carbon Literacy trainer, UK Dr Mike Tomson is a former GP (clinically retired), a medical educator coach and a Trustee for Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, previously Director of Greener Practice CIC, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors. Foreword by Rachel Stancliffe. Foreword by Richard
Smith. Introduction. 1 Primary care and planetary health. 2 Dentistry. 3
General Practice. 4 Optometrists and opticians. 5 Pharmacy. 6 Planetary
health in a GP surgery. 7 Achieving appropriate investigation, prescribing,
and treatment. 8 Lifestyle medicine. 9 Sustainable quality improvement. 10
Estates and energy. 11 Travel and transport. 12 Procurement of goods and
services. 13 Air. 14 Water. 15 Land. 16 Finance. 17 Behaviour change. 18
Working across organisations. 19 Managing eco-distress. 20 Turning
intentions into action. Appendix A: List of abbreviations. Appendix B:
Glossary. Appendix C: Useful organisations. Appendix D: Further reading and
resources. Index.