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(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) This presentation walks through climate and health community benefits.
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(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) This climate health summary tool is an Excel workbook designed to help health planning staff and community members develop quantitative indicators of the likely health impacts of climate change in their local area. These impacts are driven by rising temperatures, air pollution changes, more severe weather, and increased ticks and vectors related to changing habitats. Health consequences with disproportionate affects on vulnerable populations are also highlighted. The tool gives users a relatively easy and self-contained approach to… Read More
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(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) This climate health summary tool is an Excel workbook designed to help health planning staff and community members develop quantitative indicators of the likely health impacts of climate change in their local area. These impacts are driven by rising temperatures, air pollution changes, more severe weather, and increased ticks and vectors related to changing habitats. Health consequences with disproportionate affects on vulnerable populations are also highlighted. The tool gives users a relatively easy and self-contained approach to… Read More
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Practice Greenhealth provides a presentation that can be used as a foundation for a discussion or community education event on climate and health. This slide deck is intended to give you a variety of slides that you can pull from, depending on your need. The slide deck goes through the background first: climate change science, health impacts of climate change, and different energy sources. Then it reviews the three pillars of climate health: mitigation, resilience, and leadership, along with tools for each of those solutions.
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Practice Greenhealth provides a template that can be edited to make a poster on climate and human health. Use the increasing levels of ozone smog and local data on asthma and respiratory disease to illustrate how climate and human health intersect.
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Inova Health System is committed to creating an environmental program that contributes to a safer and healthier environment for patients, employees and community. Inova’s Supplier Sustainability Code of Conduct shares our value to work with suppliers and partners that are committed to integrating environmentally sustainability principles in their practices and conduct themselves accordingly.
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Sample letter to the VP of suply chain asking for support in purchasing environmentally preferable products and services, which are are essential components of a sustainable health care system.
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Sample letter to the CEO of a group purchasing organization asking for support in purchasing environmentally preferable products and services, which are are essential components of a sustainable health care system.
Type: Resources
Open this resource to see an example of a poster on recycling in the ICU from Seattle Children's Hospital.
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