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Kootenay family physician develops national guide for clinicians to reduce healthcare’s environmental impact

A Kimberley-based physician, Dr. Ilona Hale, and a team of health care professionals, have produced a new resource, specifically aimed at clinicians called ‘Planetary Health for Primary Care’.

The health care sector is one of the most polluting sectors, contributing five per cent of Canada’s total greenhouse gas emissions. “This resource outlines different strategies that address the bigger impacts—the upstream waste generated in the supply chain to produce materials required for medications, lab tests, surgeries, and hospitalizations—and offers tangible actions to decrease it, such as reducing unnecessary care, empowering patients, and shifting to prevention.”

 

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