Climate Resilience and Health Care

This Institute for Healthcare Improvement article discusses the relationship between health care and climate change.

Listen to this TMF Quality Innovation Network Nursing Home Connect webinar recording from March 14, 2024, to learn specific information about how essential hospitals can take advantage of the Inflation Reduction Act tax credits. This webinar was hosted by the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity.

This article from The Commonwealth Fund describes how health care organizations have contributed to climate change and what they can do to reduce their carbon footprint.

This article from the Association of American Medical Colleges details steps hospitals can take to examine their carbon footprint and reduce its negative impact on the community at large.

What are some solutions health care organizations can implement to help reduce their impact on climate change? This article from The World Economic Forum lists several options to consider.

How could educating health care professionals on the effects of climate change help improve patient outcomes? This article from The New England Journal of Medicine explores the answer to that question as well as the effect the health care industry has had on climate change overall.

The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response lists toolkits from various state health care organizations. These toolkits provide more information to help health care facilities create emergency preparedness plans.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality developed this primer to help health care organizations address climate change, one of the leading threats to public health.

This article from the Association of American Medical Colleges describes how certain health care industry sectors are taking steps to reduce their carbon footprint.

Visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website, Climate and Health, to explore strategies and programs to help communities prepare for the health effects of climate change.

This May 28, 2024, article from Health Policy Watch highlights the World Health Organization's four-year plan to improve mental health, gender equality, migrant health, food safety, digital health and artificial intelligence.

The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response's Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange has released a 12-page document that highlights lessons learned and strategies for planning and responding to extreme weather hazards, for example burns and other injuries related to extreme heat, flooding, utility outages and other infrastructure failures.

New warming trends pose a health threat to older adults, according to a study from Yale University.