What Australia must do to create a climate-responsive health system

Carolynn L. Smith; Christina Rojas; Yvonne Zurynski; Andrew Partington; Jeffrey Braithwaite

doi:10.1111/imj.16528

What Australia must do to create a climate-responsive health system

Carolynn L. Smith^*, Christina Rojas, Yvonne Zurynski, Andrew Partington, Jeffrey Braithwaite^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Australian Institute of Health Innovation

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

1 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

COP-28, the United Nations' Climate Change Conference, hosted by the United Arab Emirates, ended on 12 December 2023. At the convention, Australia released its National Health and Climate Strategy, committing to low-carbon, climate-responsive care. The Strategy will need new policies, projects and investments and a fit-for-purpose health workforce. This is a tall order considering healthcare's challenges. Everyone has a role, including clinicians, healthcare agencies, policymakers, politicians, patients and the providers and manufacturers in the supply chain. Clinicians' groups, policymakers and federal and state departments of health have an opportunity to lead climate change reform by considering climate change impacts across clinical practice and health policy.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1913-1918
Number of pages	6
Journal	Internal Medicine Journal
Volume	54
Issue number	11
Early online date	21 Sept 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/imj.16528
Publication status	Published - Nov 2024

Bibliographical note

Copyright the Author(s) 2024. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.

Keywords

climate change
greenhouse gas emissions
health system sustainability
health workforce
models of care

Access to Document

10.1111/imj.16528Licence: CC BY-NC

Publisher version (open access)Final published version, 418 KBLicence: CC BY-NC

Cite this

@article{f0817e4c4512475faab0d6f67fc92310,

title = "What Australia must do to create a climate-responsive health system",

abstract = "COP-28, the United Nations' Climate Change Conference, hosted by the United Arab Emirates, ended on 12 December 2023. At the convention, Australia released its National Health and Climate Strategy, committing to low-carbon, climate-responsive care. The Strategy will need new policies, projects and investments and a fit-for-purpose health workforce. This is a tall order considering healthcare's challenges. Everyone has a role, including clinicians, healthcare agencies, policymakers, politicians, patients and the providers and manufacturers in the supply chain. Clinicians' groups, policymakers and federal and state departments of health have an opportunity to lead climate change reform by considering climate change impacts across clinical practice and health policy.",

keywords = "climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, health system sustainability, health workforce, models of care",

author = "Smith, {Carolynn L.} and Christina Rojas and Yvonne Zurynski and Andrew Partington and Jeffrey Braithwaite",

note = "Copyright the Author(s) 2024. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.",

year = "2024",

month = nov,

doi = "10.1111/imj.16528",

language = "English",

volume = "54",

pages = "1913--1918",

journal = "Internal Medicine Journal",

issn = "1444-0903",

publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell, Wiley",

number = "11",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - What Australia must do to create a climate-responsive health system

AU - Smith, Carolynn L.

AU - Rojas, Christina

AU - Zurynski, Yvonne

AU - Partington, Andrew

AU - Braithwaite, Jeffrey

N1 - Copyright the Author(s) 2024. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.

PY - 2024/11

Y1 - 2024/11

N2 - COP-28, the United Nations' Climate Change Conference, hosted by the United Arab Emirates, ended on 12 December 2023. At the convention, Australia released its National Health and Climate Strategy, committing to low-carbon, climate-responsive care. The Strategy will need new policies, projects and investments and a fit-for-purpose health workforce. This is a tall order considering healthcare's challenges. Everyone has a role, including clinicians, healthcare agencies, policymakers, politicians, patients and the providers and manufacturers in the supply chain. Clinicians' groups, policymakers and federal and state departments of health have an opportunity to lead climate change reform by considering climate change impacts across clinical practice and health policy.

AB - COP-28, the United Nations' Climate Change Conference, hosted by the United Arab Emirates, ended on 12 December 2023. At the convention, Australia released its National Health and Climate Strategy, committing to low-carbon, climate-responsive care. The Strategy will need new policies, projects and investments and a fit-for-purpose health workforce. This is a tall order considering healthcare's challenges. Everyone has a role, including clinicians, healthcare agencies, policymakers, politicians, patients and the providers and manufacturers in the supply chain. Clinicians' groups, policymakers and federal and state departments of health have an opportunity to lead climate change reform by considering climate change impacts across clinical practice and health policy.

KW - climate change

KW - greenhouse gas emissions

KW - health system sustainability

KW - health workforce

KW - models of care

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85204563447&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1111/imj.16528

DO - 10.1111/imj.16528

M3 - Article

C2 - 39305104

AN - SCOPUS:85204563447

SN - 1444-0903

VL - 54

SP - 1913

EP - 1918

JO - Internal Medicine Journal

JF - Internal Medicine Journal

IS - 11

ER -

What Australia must do to create a climate-responsive health system

Abstract

Bibliographical note

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Cite this