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Author Gerwig, Kathy, author.

Title Greening health care : how hospitals can heal the planet / Kathy Gerwig.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Launching a green revolution in health care -- The health implications of climate change -- The business case for total health -- Food for health -- Managing and minimizing hospital waste -- Green chemicals and the detoxing of health care -- Environmentally preferable purchasing: what we buy matters -- Greening the built health care environment -- Measuring and reporting: sustainability gets sophisticated -- Community benefit and the determinants of health.
Summary This volume examines the intersections of health care and environmental health, both in terms of traditional failures and the revolution underway to fix them. Authored by one of the pioneers in health care's green movement, it presents practical solutions for health care organizations and clinicians to improve their environments and the health of their communities.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Hospital buildings -- United States -- Design and construction.
Hospital buildings.
United States.
Hospital buildings -- Environmental engineering -- United States.
Hospital buildings -- Environmental engineering.
Conservation of natural resources -- United States.
Conservation of natural resources.
Environmental health -- United States.
Environmental health.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Gerwig, Kathy. Greening health care 9780199385836 (DLC) 2014006487 (OCoLC)871189383
ISBN 9780199385843 (electronic book)
019938584X (electronic book)
1306949165
9781306949163
9780199385836
0199385831

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