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| Featured News – Asia |
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Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Network Launched
Hospitals, health systems and health organizations representing the interests of more than 3,500 hospitals from six continents launched the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Network. GGHHN is an international initiative founded by HCWH which aims to reduce the health sector’s ecological footprint and promote public environmental health. The launch took place in Taiwan at the 20th Annual Conference of the International Health Promoting Hospitals, where 33 new hospitals from countries as diverse as Thailand, Sweden, the Philippines, Nigeria and Taiwan committed to endorse the Network, and undertake a series of initiatives to green their facilities. more |
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| Asia |
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Indonesia: Major Hospitals Commit to Reduce Mercury Waste
Denpasar municipality is currently working in cooperation with HCWH Southeast Asia, Bali Fokus and the Swedish environmental agency, KEMI, to encourage the city's hospitals to apply a sustainable non-mercury and medical waste processing program. HCWH and its counterparts in the program will provide intensive training and guidance on mercury substitution. more |
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Brazil: Seminars on Mercury Free Health Care
HCWH and partner organization Projecto de Hospitais Saudaveis organized a series of Mercury Free Health Care seminars in the cities of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais and
Rio de Janeiro. Both were part of a joint effort by several public and private institutions to raise awareness and prepare the health sector to meet the challenge of global phase-out of mercury. more (in Portuguese) |
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| Africa |
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An Evolving Environmental Health Campaign
Over the last year HCWH Partner groundWork continued to make major strides in building its campaign to promote environmental health at the national, regional and international levels. A central component of this effort has been groundWork’s efforts to phase out mercury in health care and promote sustainable healthcare waste management. more |
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Health Promoting Hospitals Network
The International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services (HPH) is a network initiated by the World Health Organization. HPH promotes health care system which contributes to the pursuit of health. HCWH is a member of the HPH Environment Task Force. |
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| Event Calendar |
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Brazil: Rio+20: HCWH Side-event on Greening the Health Sector
Date: 20 - 22 June, 2012
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Punta del Este, Uruguay: INC4
Dates: 26 June - 3 July 2012
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Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Network Launches
Australia, August 2012
Brazil, September 2012
Europe, September 2012 (at CleanMed Europe)
Philippines, November 2012
For more information, please contact, globalnetwork@hcwh.org. |
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Malmö, Sweden: CleanMed Europe
Dates: 26 - 28 September 2012
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Green Hospitals Go Global
The worldwide movement to green the health sector is gaining momentum. This year Health Care Without Harm is holding launch events for the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Network (GGHHN) on five continents.
In April, we co-organized the first two in this series of these events. The GGHHN launched at the 20th International Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH) Conference, which was held this year in Taiwan. Participants included thirty-three individual hospitals from ten countries, as well as GGHHN founding members such as Thailand's Department of Health, England's National Health Service and HPH’s own network of 800 hospitals.
Almost simultaneously, in the U.S., HCWH co-launched the Healthier Hospitals Initiative, also a GGHHN founding member. With eleven major U.S. health systems and 500 hospitals already members, this initiative will help provide global leadership as part of the worldwide drive for hospitals to promote public environmental health.
Next stops are events in Australia, Brazil, Sweden and the Philippines where we expect hundreds more hospitals, health systems and health promoting organizations to come on board the green and healthy hospitals train.
In addition to building this Global Network, and as part of it, we continue to work with hospitals and health systems around the world to substitute mercury-based medical devices with safe, affordable alternatives, and to engage in projects to promote sustainable healthcare waste management in more than a dozen countries. This core element of HCWH's global work continues to grow and thrive.
At the same time HCWH and our allies will be present at the Rio Earth Summit this June, advocating for a healthy climate and an equitable and green global economy, while articulating the leading role that the health sector can play in achieving it.
It's an exciting time for this work. We are glad you are part of it. And we look forward to reporting more good news in the coming months.
Josh
Enjoy the newsletter!
Josh Karliner
International Team Coordinator
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The Greening of Medicine
The prestigious British Medical Journal featured the Global Green and Healthy Hospital Agenda in a recent article, noting that it is “being well received by health authorities around the world.” The article also discusses the depth of the climate crisis and the Climate and Health Summit co-organized by HCWH, as well as efforts by the England’s National Health Service to reduce healthcare’s climate footprint. more |
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| U.S. and Canada |
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US: New Initiative Challenges Hospitals to Reduce Environmental Footprint
A new health sector collaboration in the United States, the Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI) and its eleven sponsoring health systems announced a set of challenges for hospitals nationwide aimed at reducing the U.S. healthcare sector’s environmental footprint. More than 500 leading hospitals across the United States have joined the HHI, a partnership coordinated by Health Care Without Harm, Practice Greenhealth,and the Center for Health Design. HHI is a founding member of the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Network. more |
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HCWH Calls On EU Environment Ministers to Address Chemicals
HCWH and various European partner organizations including, Health and Environment Alliance, European Environment Bureau, PAN-Europe, ChemSec, and other called on EU Environment Ministers to take measures to address endocrine disruptors (EDCs), chemical mixtures and nanomaterials, as well as a better protection from substances of very high concern (SVHC) in the 7th Environment Action Programme (7th EAP). more
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| New Resources |
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Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Agenda
The Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Agenda is a comprehensive 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. Available in Spanish, English, Portuguese and Chinese |
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The Future We Want
A global initiative to move beyond negative visions of the future and focus on the sustainability solutions that are ready to be implemented by 2030.
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