The database is a culmination of a partnership between BSMS, CASCADES (Creating a Sustainable Canadian Health System in a Climate Crisis), and the flagship Creating Sustainable Health Systems in a Climate Crisis project at Dalhousie University’s Healthy Populations Institute. It will also help researchers find existing studies, identify important research gaps, and create new possibilities for synthesising the available evidence.”
With the UK’s net-zero pledges looming overhead and the fact that healthcare provision accounts for more than 5% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, this latest innovation could help global healthcare continue to turn the tide in the climate emergency and support sustainable health for the future.īSMS’s Clinical Lecturer in Sustainable Healthcare and project’s senior author, Dr Chantelle Rizan, said: “HealthcareLCA creates an opportunity for health professionals to learn more about the environmental impacts of healthcare, providing accessible and easy-to-understand evidence for administrators and decision-makers. That ranges from entire health systems and services to equipment and procedures. The open-access database – dubbed HealthcareLCA – was developed by Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) and Dalhousie University in Canada and gives health professionals access to an “up-to-date evidence repository” that, at present time, indexes more than 4,000 environmental impact values for over 1,400 healthcare products and activities.
Meanwhile, health officials say they are addressing inequities in vaccine distribution among different cities and ethnic populations - gaps that county supervisors say aren’t shrinking fast enough.A cross-commonwealth collaboration is set to help health systems around the globe garner greater insight into how their services impact the environment, as a new interactive database cataloguing thousands of environmental impact values is launched. “We want you to consider adding your name (to the list) … because we know a lot more vaccination is going to move in,” said health director Anna Roth at Tuesday’s county supervisors’ meeting. While health officials have had some success in vaccine rollout - around 87% of residents over 75 have received their first dose as of Tuesday - supply chain problems have limited the county over the past month to distributing mostly second doses, rather than inoculating new patients.ĭespite the lengthy backlog of people waiting for a shot, the county’s health director at a meeting Tuesday encouraged residents to continue signing up for a future appointment. In an effort to boost its outreach, the county will open a new vaccination site at San Ramon’s Diablo Valley College campus. San Ramon is among the Contra Costa County cities and communities with the third lowest percentage of residents who have received their first dose. The waitlist for a first dose of the coronavirus vaccine in Contra Costa County has risen to about 30,000 residents amid a supply shortage that has plagued distribution around the Bay Area.
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