Sustainable Healthcare

• What is the impact of climate change on human health?

  Increase in extreme weather events -> heat waves, flooding, droughts, wildfires

  Infectious diseases -> changing pattern of vectors

  Food insecutiry, displacement from homes

  Impact on mental health

  
• What is sustainable healthcare?

  Reduced healthcare's carbon emission by improving health & better delivery of healthcare

  Co-benefits to pts & environments in which human health

  Would allow to provide effective healthcare now without compromising ability to provide effective healthcare in future
• What does sustainability include?

  Environment impacts

  Social impacts

  Economic impacts
• What is important in healthcare to improve sustainability?

  Prevention

  • lower alcohol consumption
  • reduce physical inactivity
  • smoking cessation
  • healthier diets

  = reduced actute events, increased QoL, reduced meds, avoid unnecessary tests

  
  

  Patient empowerment

  • shared decisison making
  • motivational interviewing
  • pts understanding impacts on environment

  Lean pathways (streamlining services, avoid admissions to hospital)

  Low carbon alternatives (inhalers, green prescribing)

  Operations resource use (energy use, transport)
• How can you calculate the sustainable value?

  (Outcomes for pts & populations)/(Environmental + social + financial impacts)