WHO-HCWH Climate Report
Healthy Hospitals, Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Addressing Climate Change in Health Care Settings (pdf)
Healthy Hospitals, Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Addressing Climate Change in Health Care Settings (pdf)
Download Report: End of an Era: The Phase-Out of Mercury Blood Pressure Devices (pdf)
Health Care Without Harm: Leading the global movement for environmentally responsible health care
"First Do No Harm" ... Together with our partners around the world, Health Care Without Harm shares a vision of a health care sector that does no harm, and instead promotes the health of people and the environment. To that end, we are working to implement ecologically sound and healthy alternatives to health care practices that pollute the environment and contribute to disease. more
HCWH News
13 March 2010
HCWH-Southeast Asia Press Release
HCWH-Southeast Asia Press Release
Doctors push for mercury ban in health care
A group of medical doctors and envi-health group Health Care Without Harm-Southeast Asia today push for the banning of mercury in health care and promise a vote for the presidentiable who can make this happen. more10 March 2010
HCWH-Southeast Asia Press Release
HCWH-Southeast Asia Press Release
Envi-Health Group Calls for DoH Status Report on Mercury Phase-out
Davao City – Health Care Without Harm-Southeast Asia (HCWH-SEA) in a regional conference on mercury phase-out and proper health care waste management in Southern Mindanao today called on the Department of Health (DoH) to report on the status of the mercury phase-out agenda the latter presented almost a month ago. moreEnvironmental Health News
15 March 2010, People's Journal
Safe health care
Excerpt: "Now that El Niño and the power supply shortage that goes with it are upon us, the government is left with no option but to idle some hydro-electric power plants and switch to coal-fired and bunker fuel-run generating facilities." more13 March 2010, Manila Bulletin
By Nel B. Andrade
By Nel B. Andrade
Rizal starts phasing out mercury-laden devices
Excerpt: "Antipolo City — Public hospitals managed by the Rizal provincial government are set to gradually phase out medical devices containing mercury within the next few weeks as the purchase of non-mercurial thermometers and sphygmomanometers are under way." moreReports and Publications
6 August 2009
Health Care Without Harm - SEA
Health Care Without Harm - SEA
GGHC's Health Care Waste Assessment Interview Guide
This 28-page Guide includes Stage 1, Stage 2, and Stage 3 instruments, with interview guides, checklists, and questionnaires. The primary purpose of these tools are to help make a preliminary assessment of the waste systems in the facility. The goal is to gather information that can make the later stages as comprehensive, time-efficient and non-intensive as possible. more7 May 2009
A discussion draft paper published by the World Health Organization and Health Care Without Harm
A discussion draft paper published by the World Health Organization and Health Care Without Harm
Healthy Hospitals, Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Addressing Climate Change in Health Care Settings
(Discussion Draft) This 32-page discussion draft produced by the World Health Organization and Health Care Without Harm says that the healthcare sector can lead the way against climate change. This report shows how the health sector can improve reduce its climate footprint while setting forth a number of opportunties for action for health care professionals, hospitals, health systems, ministries of health and intergovernmental negotiations. more22 September 2008
Health Care Without Harm Report
Health Care Without Harm Report
End of an Era: The Phase-out of Mercury-Based Blood Pressure Devices in the U.S. and Its Implications for the Rest of the World
This brief report provides an overview of the tremendous success the US healthcare community has experienced in delivering safe, accurate, affordable mercury-free blood pressure measurement. moreQuick Links
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Download Report: The Global Movement for Mercury-Free Health Care: How health care leaders around the world are substituting mercury-based medical devices with safer, environmentally sound alternatives (pdf)
