88: Planetary Health Healers
46 min
This Episode Won A 2023 "Silver" Digital Health Awards®
Climate Change as a Global Health Emergency
According to the United Nations, climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity. We see it every day in headlines, research, and outside of our windows. As public health leaders and climate first responders, nurses are often the first to witness the impact of climate change on people's health and livelihoods, as well as its disruption to the ability of our healthcare systems to respond.
Nurses and Clinicians Leading Climate Action in Healthcare
While the situation is dire and the stakes are existential, there are solutions that healthcare as a sector and a workforce can embrace to reduce the harmful and inequitable impact of carbon emissions.
Decarbonizing Healthcare for a Healthier, More Equitable Future
In this episode, we learn from public health nurse Kasey Bellegarde, MPH, RN and physician Jonathan Perlin, MD, PhD, president and CEO of The Joint Commission and former president of HCA Healthcare, how clinicians are inspiring an “all hands on deck decarbonizing movement” and why committing to the Health Sector Climate Pledge is critical in lowering the health sector's carbon footprint while also building a brighter, greener, and more equitable future for generations to come.
About See You Now Podcast
SEE YOU NOW is a podcast that shines a light on the real people changing the status quo in health: from nurses working in labor and delivery, with infectious diseases, and in hospice; to nurse allies in politics, business and tech. Created in collaboration with Johnson & Johnson and the American Nurses Association.
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Resources
- Earth Day
- Nurse-Family Partnership
- The 2019 report of the Lancet countdown on health and climate change
- Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments
- The role of nursing in climate change and public health
- HHS launches pledge initiative to mobilize health care sector to reduce emissions
- National Academy of Medicine action collaborative on achieving a climate resilient and sustainable health sector
- If I were a hospital, I’d be reading the tea leaves
- Health Care’s Climate Footprint
- Delivering a Net Zero National Health Service
- WHO Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate Health
- Scope 3 GHG Emissions Accounting Tool
- Climate solutions double as health interventions
- Health Care Pollution and Public health damage in the US
- Decarbonizing the US health sector, a call to action
- Estimated global disease burden from US health care sector greenhouse gas emissions
- Nurses Drawdown
- University of Minnesota Center for Planetary Health and Environmental Justice Overview
