Tools and resources

Community benefit: impact of climate change and the environment, multi-purpose strategies and co-benefits (CHA)

• Climate and Health
• Leadership
• Toolkit

(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) (Catholic Health Association) Can community benefit programs that improve health also have a positive impact on climate change and the environment? The answer can be yes.

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WHO: Operational Framework for building climate resilient health systems

• Climate and Health
• Leadership
• Report

(World Health Organization) This document presents the World Health Organization (WHO) Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems. The framework responds to the demand from Member States and partners for guidance on how the health sector and its operational basis in health systems can systematically and effectively address the challenges increasingly presented by climate…

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Health Care & climate change: An opportunity for transformative leadership

• Climate and Health
• Leadership
• White Paper

(Health Care Without Harm) The reversal of climate change will pivot around fundamental realignments in the ways that energy is created and consumed. The report provides detailed guidelines and case studies to help hospital leaders and facilities’ staff develop comprehensive strategies to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels through the use of “clean technology.” Its overarching conclusion is…

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Leveraging hospital community benefit to address climate change (Health Care Without Harm)

• Climate and Health
• Leadership
• Leadership and education
• Community Benefit

(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) The community health needs assessment (CHNA) and community benefit implementation strategies provide a framework to support activities that address local health priorities and climate change. As greenhouse gas emissions increase we are witnessing environmental changes with far-reaching health implications, including some prioritized in…

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World Health Organization report: Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems

• Climate and Health
• Resilience

This document presents the World Health Organization (WHO) Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems. The framework responds to the demand from Member States and partners for guidance on how the health sector and its operational basis in health systems can systematically and effectively address the challenges increasingly presented by climate variability and change. This…

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U.S. climate resilience: Building health care sector resilience

• Climate and Health
• Resilience

Health care organizations play a key role in community resilience. Climate change, by increasing the intensity and frequency of some extreme weather events, is creating complex hazards that challenge accepted baseline assumptions for infrastructure capabilities, redundancies, and disaster preparedness and response—and this means a need for new building design thresholds. This government toolkit…

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Resilience 2.0: Healthcare’s Role in Anchoring Community Health and Resilience

• Climate and Health
• Resilience
• Boston
• Report

Health care institutions and the communities they serve are intimately interconnected, especially during and following extreme weather events and human-made disasters. In January, 2017, Health Care Without Harm convened a Summit "Resilience 2.0: Healthcare’s Role in Anchoring Community Health and Resilience" focused on leveraging community health and climate resilience as a key strategy in the…

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Safe haven in the storm: Protecting lives and margins with climate-smart health care

• Climate and Health
• Resilience
• Report

"Safe haven in the storm: Protecting lives and margins with climate-smart health care" analyzes billions of dollars in losses and resilience-related savings to demonstrate how preparing for extreme weather can make or break a health system.  "Safe haven in the storm" examines extreme weather's bottom line damages to hospitals, such as suspension or closure of emergency departments and other…

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World Bank climate-smart health care

• Climate and Health
• Health Care Without Harm
• World Bank
• Report

(World Bank and Health Care Without Harm) In its title, the report coins the term Climate-Smart Health Care, an approach that sets forth both low-carbon and resilience strategies. These strategies are designed for the development community, ministries of health, hospitals and health systems to deploy while addressing the health impacts of climate change. James Close, Director of the World Bank’s…

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Building a climate-smart health care system for California

• Climate and Health
• Report

(Bay Area Council Economic Institute) Climate change remains a serious threat to human health, and healthcare organizations in California, across the U.S., and globally can be catalysts in creating a climate-smart future. California’s widely varying weather, coastal location, and large population mean the state is feeling the effects of climate change sooner and more severely than other regions…

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