Environmentally Sustainable Primary Care

Good for the planet, good for practices, good for patients
Herausgeber: Sawyer, Matt; Tomson, Mike

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This practical guide, for primary care, provides a context-specific introduction to the sustainability challenges associated with good healthcare delivery and provides easy-to-implement yet impactful actions that can be taken to reduce and mitigate the impact of primary care on the living world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032793580
• ISBN-10: 1032793589
• Artikelnr.: 70525838

Autorenporträt

Dr Matt Sawyer is a former GP, current Director of SEE Sustainability and a Carbon Literacy trainer, UK Dr Mike Tomson is a former GP (clinically retired), a medical educator coach and a Trustee for Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, previously Director of Greener Practice CIC, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Primary Care and Planetary Health. 2: Dentistry. 3: General Practice. 4:
Optometrists and Opticians. 5: Pharmacy. 6: Planetary Health in a GP
Surgery. 7: Achieving Appropriate Investigation, Prescribing and Treatment.
8: Lifestyle Medicine. 9: Sustainable Quality Improvement. 10: Estates and
Energy. 11: Travel and Transport. 12: Procurement of Goods and Services.
13: Air. 14: Water. 15: Land. 16: Finance. 17: Behaviour Change. 18:
Working Across Organisations. 19: Managing Eco-Distress. 20: Turning
Intentions into Action.