1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Health System Sustainability
Preface by Ezequiel Garcia Elorrio and Carsten Engel
PART I: To begin
Chapter 1 How we got to here
Jeffrey Braithwaite, Yvonne Zurynski & Carolynn K-lynn Smith
Chapter 2 Can we have a sustainable health system?
Jeffrey Braithwaite & ChatGPT
Chapter 3 Creating climate-resilient, sustainable health systems: Perspectives from health ministers
Jeffrey Braithwaite, Yvonne Zurynski & Carolynn K-lynn Smith
PART II: The effects of climate change on human health and healthcare system sustainability
Section 1: Fundamental issues
Chapter 4 Climate change: How worried should we be?
Lesley Hughes
Chapter 5 Who are we? Social identity and sustainable healthcare in the Anthropocene
Tony Wainwright & Annie Mitchell
Chapter 6 Mental health in a time of crisis: The detrimental effects of climate change
Elle Leask, Louise A. Ellis, Genevieve Dammery & Jeffrey Braithwaite
Chapter 7 Antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance in people and animals and its potential impacts on planetary health
Carolynn K-lynn Smith, Anne Quain & Stephen W. Page
Section 2: Specific exemplars
Chapter 8 Australian bushfires, heatwaves, and disaster medicine
Gerard FitzGerald
Chapter 9 Australian bushfires 2019–20: Exploring the short-term health impacts
Jenna Haddin, David Wong & Claire Sparke
Chapter 10 Emergency medicine in a climate crisis: Are we prepared?
Simon Judkins, Lai H. Foong, Kimberly Humphrey & Laksmi S. Govindasamy
Chapter 11 Health system responses to climate change in Australia
Angie Bone, Annette Bos, Adi Vyas, Arthur Wyns, Fiona Armstrong, Peter Bragge & Anthony Capon
Section 3: Social justice and climate change
Chapter 12 Population health perspective on extreme weather events and emergency medical services
Olga Anikeeva & Peng Bi
Chapter 13 Indigenous planetary health and the bridging of Indigenous and conventional medicine systems
Nicole Redvers
Chapter 14 Climate resilient development: What does this mean for health in the Indo-Pacific region?
Annabelle Workman & Kathryn J. Bowen
Chapter 15 Climate change and access to healthcare: A case study of Africa
Ama Umesi, Akua Frimpomaa Darkwah, Buchi Umesi & Omas Ubiame
Chapter 16 Climate change in Africa case Studies: Role of healthcare and sustainable interventions
Ama Umesi, Omas Ubiame, Yauba Saidu, Buchi Umesi, Esu Ezeani, Olatunji Paul Jaiyeola & Akua Frimpomaa Darkwah
PART III: The impact of healthcare delivery on environmental sustainability: Challenges and solutions
Section 1: Towards sustainability
Chapter 17 Climate change mitigation and healthcare sector sustainability
Paul J. Beggs, Alice McGushin, Marina Romanello, Arunima Malik & Jodi D. Sherman
Chapter 18 Sustainable quality improvement and other practical solutions to implement sustainable healthcare
Simran Sehdev, Stefi Barna & Aditya Vyas
Chapter 19 Performance monitoring for a sustainable health system: New wine, new bottles?
Fiona A. Miller & Gillian Parker
Section 2: System redesign
Chapter 20 ‘We argue that … one simply cannot claim to be a “health” care professional without advocating forcefully for the planet’: Planetary health needs to be included in health professions' education
Michelle McLean
Chapter 21 Digital health solutions to climate change challenges
Hania Rahimi-Ardabili, Farah Magrabi & Enrico Coiera
Chapter 22 Learning Healthcare Systems: How to improve health system sustainability in the era of climate change
Carolynn K-lynn Smith & Genevieve Dammery
Chapter 23 Is the Learning Health System 2.0 (LHS 2.0) a solution to healthcare's climate challenges?
Jeffrey Braithwaite, Louise A. Ellis, Georgia Fisher, Carolynn K-lynn Smith & Yvonne Zurynski
Section 3: Structural perspectives on healthcare and environmental sustainability
Chapter 24 One health: Perspectives on the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health
Hisham El-Ansary
Chapter 25 Integrated care, system leadership and sustainability
Chris Naylor & Esme Ward
Chapter 26 It’s not what you do, it’s the way that you do it: Reducing the carbon footprint of healthcare through models of integrated care
Yvonne Zurynski, Nicholas Goodwin & Shalini Wijekulasuriya
Chapter 27 Climate action and healthcare – an Irish perspective
Philip Crowley, Roisin Breen & Colin O'Hehir
Section 4: Lowering the carbon footprint of healthcare
Chapter 28 Reconfiguring health organisations for environmental sustainability; Implications for professions, work and management in healthcare
Simon Bishop
Chapter 29 Think pathways, not buildings: Assessing the climate impact of patient care pathways
Oliver Gröne
Chapter 30 Greenifying the healthcare routine: Learnings from bottom-up green medical activism in the Netherlands
Hans C. Ossebaard & Evelyn Brakema
Chapter 31 Towards zero emissions in healthcare: The Italian experience
Elisabetta Mezzalira, Luca P. Orsini, Chiara Leardini & Gianluca Veronesi
Section 5: Economic perspectives on improving healthcare
Chapter 32 Ecological economics for health and health systems
Martin C. Hensher
Chapter 33 What is overtreatment and why is it a problem?
Rachelle Buchbinder, Ian Harris & Denise O'Connor
Chapter 34 Improving planetary and population health through frugal and reverse innovation
Cyan Brown, Matthew Harris & Yasser Bhatti
PART IV: What does it all mean?
Chapter 35 Bringing it together
Jeffrey Braithwaite, Yvonne Zurynski, Carolynn K-lynn Smith
Chapter 36 Creating sustainable healthcare systems to cope with a changing climate: The time is now
Jeffrey Braithwaite
Index
Biography
Jeffrey Braithwaite Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Australia
Yvonne Zurynski Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Australia
Carolynn K-lynn Smith Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Australia
