Leading the Health Care Sector to Sustainability
Practice Greenhealth, HCWH, and the Healthier Hospitals Initiative describe strategies and resources for bringing sustainable practices to the health care sector. enlarge video
Practice Greenhealth, HCWH, and the Healthier Hospitals Initiative describe strategies and resources for bringing sustainable practices to the health care sector. enlarge video
Health Care Without Harm is an international coalition of more than 470 organizations in 52 countries working to transform the health care sector so it is no longer a source of harm to people and the environment. enlarge video
Download Report: Toward the Tipping Point: WHO-HCWH Global Initiative to Substitute Mercury-Based Medical Devices in Health Care. A Two-Year Progress Report (pdf)
Today's Feature
January 19, 2013
Health Care Without Harm Press Release
Health Care Without Harm Press Release
World's Governments Agree to Mercury-Free Healthcare in 2020
The world’s governments have finalized text for a global legally binding treaty on mercury, the bio-accumulative heavy metal that is poisoning the world’s fish supply, threatening public health and the environment. Among other measures, the treaty text mandates an end to the manufacture, import and export of mercury thermometers and blood pressure devices (sphygmomanometers) by 2020. more
U.S. and Canada
December 3, 2012
Health Care Without Harm Press Release
Health Care Without Harm Press Release
CleanMed Named Emerging Green Conference
CleanMed 2013 is pleased to announce that it has been chosen as the “Emerging Green Conference” by the Capital Chapter of the Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA). moreEurope
23 January 2013
HCWH-Europe Press Release
HCWH-Europe Press Release
The European Parliament calls for better protection of human health from Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs)
Health Care Without Harm Europe welcomes the European Parliament’s resolution on the protection of public health from endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) (1), adopted today by the Committee for the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI Committee). moreSoutheast Asia
2 October 2012
HCWH-Southeast Asia Press Release
HCWH-Southeast Asia Press Release
Doctors, taking health care to new heights
“Doctors nowadays are healing patients beyond hospital premises and the usual stethoscope,” said Merci Ferrer, Director of Health Care Without Harm-Southeast Asia (HCWH-SEA). “They are now looking at ten interconnected goals that complete the picture of a green and healthy health care.” moreAmérica Latina
19 de enero de 2013
Comunicado de prensa de Salud sin Daño
Comunicado de prensa de Salud sin Daño
Gobiernos acuerdan la eliminación del mercurio en el sector del cuidado de la salud para el año 2020
El tratado, que fue aprobado en Ginebra durante el último período de sesiones del Comité Intergubernamental de Negociación del Tratado sobre Mercurio, será firmado por los gobiernos en octubre de este año. másGlobal Projects & Other Regions
January 18, 2013
Health Care Without Harm Press Release
Health Care Without Harm Press Release
HCWH Video Report from Mercury Treaty Negotiations
HCWH International Coordinator, Josh Karliner reports from the final round of mercury treaty negotiations in Geneva. more
Download Report: Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Agenda: A Comprehensive Environmental Health Agenda for Hospitals and Health Systems Around the World (pdf)
