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| HCWH Launches Comprehensive Environmental Health Framework for Hospitals and Health Systems Around the World
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Health Care Without Harm has launched a new initiative designed to foster greater ecological sustainability and environmental health in the health care sector around the world.
The Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Agenda is a framework for hospitals and health systems to reduce their ecological footprint and play a leading role in addressing major environmental health challenges--such as chemical contamination, medical waste and climate change-- in the hospital setting and the broader community.
The Agenda will form the foundation of a Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Network, which HCWH will formally launch in early 2012.
A number of hospitals from countries as diverse as Argentina, Nepal and India have already joined as founding members.
The Sustainability Unit of England’s National Health Service, which works with more than 200 hospitals in the UK, and which is one of the world's leading voices for an environmentally sound health sector, has also joined as a Founding Member of the Network.
Another 300 hospitals in the United States are members of the Healthier Hospitals Initiative, a US specific effort that is closely related to the new global network.
For more information and to download a copy of the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Agenda please visit www.greenhospitals.net |
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