Tools and resources

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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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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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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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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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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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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Community Health Center Member Toolkit OLD3

• CHC
• Community Health Center
• Member Toolkit

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Environmentally preferred purchasing specifications and resources guide

• EPP
• EPP Resource
• Guide
• Guide
• Supply Chain

Wondering what environmental issues or questions you should ask a supplier about a specific product? We make it easy for you by providing specification or RFP language, short explanations of environmental issues relevant to that product, referrals to product lists or environmental product certifications, and links to additional resources.

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Hazardous waste characterization

• Waste
• Medical Waste
• Hazardous and universal waste
• Guide

Framework for the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act It is important to know the correct classification of all of the organization's waste, as different sets of rules will apply to the facility depending on the total amounts of each type of hazardous waste generated per year. Large quantity generators (LQGs) operate under more stringent rules and more comprehensive reporting requirements…

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Green Cleaning Products

• Chemicals
• Green Cleaning

Conventional cleaning products can contain chemicals associated with respiratory irritation, skin and eye injury, ozone depletion, cancer, and indoor air problems. Based on state occupational injury reporting, janitorial staff have some of the highest on-the-job injury rates. A 2007 study in The Lancet identifies nurses as having the highest rates of work-related asthma of any occupation in the…

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