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Plastic usage has reached 460 million metric tonnes annually on a global scale, and this number is projected to triple by 2060. By reducing the healthcare sector's reliance on single-use (often toxic) plastics, we can demonstrate that significant change is feasible in all industries, despite the specific barriers that exist to reducing plastic use in healthcare.

6th Green Hospitals Asian Conference

Assessment Report and Policy Priorities and Strategies for the Climate-Resilient and Environmentally…

October 2019"Towards a Sustainable, Climate-resilient Asian Healthcare"Singapore October 2017"Fostering Low-carbon Health Care"Taipei, Taiwan August 2016"Towards Climate-Resilient Health Care"Yogyakarta, IndonesiaOctober 2015"Asia Hospitals Responding to Climate Change"Seoul, South Korea October 20131st Green Hospitals Asia ConferenceManila, Philippines

Green Hospitals Asia Conference is a biennial gathering of hospitals, health organizations, and health systems in the region to learn from one another's experiences and discuss the most pressing environmental health and sustainability issues in health care. Not to mention, the vast opportunity for all participants to earn new networks and partnerships that will put together a more sustainable healthcare for all.  Organized by Health Care Without Harm Asia's Global Green and Healthy Hospitals program, the conference has been held in various cities in Asia: Manila (Philippines), Seoul (South Korea), Yogyakarta (Indonesia) and Taipei (Taiwan) with the support of our different partners in these countries.The Global Green and Healthy Hospitals (GGHH) Network is a worldwide community of hospitals, health care systems, and organizations dedicated to reducing the ecological footprint of health care...

This Toolkit is all about fighting plastic pollution in the healthcare setting. It reiterates the…

A Photo Exhibit and People’s Campaign for a Just and Equitable Plastics Treaty.

From reducing carbon footprints to innovative waste management solutions, these case studies…

 Dear Colleagues and Friends in HCWH,  It is my great pleasure and honor to have this opportunity to commemorate 20th Anniversary of HCWH. In human life cycle, 20-year-old is mostly energetic, visionary, and optimistic. HCWH is now ready to change the world in health and environment arena.  I have been working with HCWH for about five years now and am proud to be a part of this excellent organization for protecting the health of people and the planet from adverse environmental changes now and in the near future. I have been impressed by how efficiently and friendly they are working together in regional and global offices.  HCWH has been creating “value” which gives us important messages that health care should be environmentally responsible and first do no harm. This messages need to be delivered to all health care professionals all...

Bridging Global Environmental Health Concerns and Local Health Priorities  Health Care Without Harm's campaign in Asia began by calling the attention of the people in the health care industry on the harmful environmental effects and health impact of burning medical waste. As the emerging economies in Asia grow stronger, health care  is one of the sectors projected to expand significantly in the coming years and Health Care Without Harm must- and intends- to be a a partner of hospitals in shaping the future of the health care industry in Asia. As the health care industry develops in this part of the world, policies need to be gradually put in place and I see the expertise and experience of Health Care Without Harm in facilitating the cross pollination of ideas among various hospitals in different countries and legal jurisdictions. The challenges for the health...

Celebrating Health Care Without Harm’s 20th anniversary, Gary Cohen reflects on the last two decades in the environmental health movement and offers an opportunity for health care to redefine its role in the 21st century. When we started Health Care Without Harm, we hardly knew anyone who worked in the health care sector. We were mostly outsiders, community activists who had been working for decades in the environmental movement. But we knew we needed powerful allies to transform this emerging science linking the environment to our health into action that would protect our children, our families, our communities. We needed health care.Back then, new science revealed that low-dose exposures of toxic chemicals in the first thousands days of a child’s life could create a host of health problems later in life, including cancer, learning disabilities, infertility, and other chronic diseases. At the same time, we began to...