Enhancing the Australian healthcare sector's responsiveness to environmental sustainability issues: suggestions from Australian healthcare professionals.

Conclusions. By implementing the strategies described, a more cohesive effort to address sustainability issues across the sector can be made. This may improve local and global health, within current and future generations. What is known about the topic? Healthcare has a significant impact on the natural and social environments, which in turn have a significant impact upon health and healthcare. What does this paper add? This paper describes strategies to alter healthcare to better support environmental sustainability. What are the implications for practitioners? Collective implementation of the described strategies may allow a more cohesive and effective response across the Australian healthcare sector, to enhance local and global health for current and future generations. PMID: 23489957 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Australian Health Review - Category: Hospital Management Authors: Tags: Aust Health Rev Source Type: research