Health Care SOS: Sharing on Sustainability

We discuss educating nurses and other health professionals about climate change and their role in: educating patients; mitigating the effects of climate change; scholarship and collaboration; and getting involved at the community level.

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In this episode, Dr. Duhaime discusses the history of the Journal of Climate Change and Health and opportunities related to publications. She then discusses the environmental impact of research, introduces steps that researchers can consider in greening their labs, and describes the consult service created at MGH to help investigators with these efforts.

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In this episode, we discuss why waste audits are useful. We review the planning and the logistics involved with conducting a hospital waste audit. Our guests include hospitalists that led a 24-hour waste audit on a 20-bed inpatient unit at MGH, and the director of the Environmental Services Department at MGH.

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Environmental sustainability as it pertains to the health care system is a topic of increasingly recognized importance. In this episode, our guest Dr. Jonathan Slutzman, the director of the Center for the Environment and Health at Mass General Hospital, discusses the process of creating a sustainability program at our hospital. Dr. Slutzman provides insight into the clinical, financial, and environmental benefits of these sustainability practices. He also suggests key steps to consider in developing similar programs at other institutions.

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