Canada faces a “polycrisis” of interconnected economic, environmental, and social challenges. Addressing these requires coordinated policies that consider overlapping risks.
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The article highlights the numerous health and environmental benefits of planting trees in urban areas. Trees help improve air quality, reduce heat island effects, and provide mental health benefits by creating greener, more serene environments.
This article investigates emissions related to health care in a patient’s last year of life. End of life is a period when health care use and associated emissions production increases exponentially.
Clinicians can implement updated recommendations on dose and frequency of iron supplementation that can have benefits for patients and help mitigate environmental harms from health care practices.
This article sheds light on the Canadian health system’s interest in environmental sustainability and efforts to build a more climate-resilient health care system.
Healthcare contributes significantly to global warming and accounts for 4.4% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, the end-of-life (EOL) period is characterized by disproportionately high hospital use, which is both emissions-intensive and often contrary to patients’ wishes to receive EOL […]
Physicians are encouraged to actively consider the environmental impact of medical interventions. Chief among these considerations is the environmental burden of medication development, production, and disposition. Addressing the environmental consequences of medication prescribing is a critical part of mitigating carbon […]