Toward Climate-Smart Hospitals Taiwanese Experience
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Gan, Connie Cai Ru
Song, Hong-Fang
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2019
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Hospital must become "climate-smart" in the era of extreme climate patterns because they generate massive and harmful environmental footprints that worsen climate change; and they need to avoid interrupted health services at a time when it is crucially needed. The alarming climate crisis calls for urgent actions to mitigate carbon and a collective state-wide and regional response. This paper presents a series of green hospital initiatives and the preliminary results of an 11-year cohort study of Taiwan's Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH) network. In 2017, 72 HPH memebr hospitals collectively reduced 6% of total carbon emissions ...
View more >Hospital must become "climate-smart" in the era of extreme climate patterns because they generate massive and harmful environmental footprints that worsen climate change; and they need to avoid interrupted health services at a time when it is crucially needed. The alarming climate crisis calls for urgent actions to mitigate carbon and a collective state-wide and regional response. This paper presents a series of green hospital initiatives and the preliminary results of an 11-year cohort study of Taiwan's Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH) network. In 2017, 72 HPH memebr hospitals collectively reduced 6% of total carbon emissions per hospital bed compared to baseline year 2007.
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View more >Hospital must become "climate-smart" in the era of extreme climate patterns because they generate massive and harmful environmental footprints that worsen climate change; and they need to avoid interrupted health services at a time when it is crucially needed. The alarming climate crisis calls for urgent actions to mitigate carbon and a collective state-wide and regional response. This paper presents a series of green hospital initiatives and the preliminary results of an 11-year cohort study of Taiwan's Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH) network. In 2017, 72 HPH memebr hospitals collectively reduced 6% of total carbon emissions per hospital bed compared to baseline year 2007.
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Journal Title
Clinical Health Promotion
Volume
9
Issue
Supp 2
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© The Author(s) 2019. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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Health promotion
Climate change impacts and adaptation