Search Tag: climate change
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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