The environmental footprint of health care: a global assessment

Lenzen, Manfred; Malik, Arunima; Li, Mengyu; Fry, Jacob; Weisz, Helga; Pichler, Peter‐Paul; Suveges Moreira Chaves, Leonardo; Capon, Anthony; Pencheon, David

doi:10.1016/s2542-5196(20)30121-2

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The environmental footprint of health care: a global assessment

Published in The Lancet Planetary Health • Jul 1, 2020

Authors:

Manfred Lenzen

Arunima Malik

Mengyu Li

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Health-care services are necessary for sustaining and improving human wellbeing, yet they have an environmental footprint that contributes to environment-related threats to human health. Previous studies have quantified the carbon emissions resulting from health care at a global level. W...

Subject

Health care

Business

Carbon footprint

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