Environmentally Sustainable Primary Care: Good for the planet, good for practices, good for patients

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Matt Sawyer Mike Tomson

Environmentally Sustainable Primary Care

Good for the planet, good for practices, good for patients

Matt Sawyer, Mike Tomson

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CRC Press
07 November 2024

Public ownership & nationalisation; Health systems & services; Applied ecology; Civil engineering, surveying & building

This practical guide for primary care provides a context-specific introduction to the sustainability challenges associated with good health-care delivery and provides easy-to-implement yet impactful actions that can be taken to reduce and mitigate the impact of primary care on the living world while also looking at the impact of the changing planet on health care that people will encounter.

The chapters address the following key questions: What is the issue? What can I do/what can my practice do? How do my actions help patients, practice, and planet? Included throughout are case studies, vignettes, and anecdotes of previous successful interventions, while a checklist of the most impactful actions for others to follow, as supported by the current evidence base, provides a convenient summary. References and additional resource recommendations give directions for further guidance. The book looks at the four pillars of primary care – dentistry, General Practice, optometry, and pharmacy – and includes international contributions.

Providing invaluable direction to turn good intentions into meaningful action, this book will be invaluable to health professionals and practice managers across all primary care disciplines and to students preparing to enter practice in those fields. It will also be of interest to integrated care system administrators and to health policymakers.

Edited by: Matt Sawyer, Mike Tomson
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 594g
ISBN: 9781032793573
ISBN 10: 1032793570
Pages: 306
Publication Date: 07 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: Primary Care and Planetary Health. 2: Dentistry. 3: General Practice. 4: Optometrists and Opticians. 5: Pharmacy. 6: Planetary Health in a GP Surgery. 7: Achieving Appropriate Investigation, Prescribing and Treatment. 8: Lifestyle Medicine. 9: Sustainable Quality Improvement. 10: Estates and Energy. 11: Travel and Transport. 12: Procurement of Goods and Services. 13: Air. 14: Water. 15: Land. 16: Finance. 17: Behaviour Change. 18: Working Across Organisations. 19: Managing Eco-Distress. 20: Turning Intentions into Action.

Dr Matt Sawyer is a former GP, current Director of SEE Sustainability and a Carbon Literacy trainer, UK Dr Mike Tomson is a former GP (clinically retired), a medical educator coach and a Trustee for Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, previously Director of Greener Practice CIC, UK.