The pharmacist’s role in climate change: A call to action

Abstract

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

World Health Organization. Urgent health challenges for the next decade. 2020. Available: https://www.who.int/news-room/photo-story/photo-story-detail/urgent-health-challenges-for-the-next-decade (accessed Jul. 22, 2020).

World Health Organization. Climate change and health. 2018 Available: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-and-health (accessed Aug. 4, 2020).

Eckelman

Sherman

MacNeill

. Life cycle environmental emissions and health damages from the Canadian health care system: an economic-environmental-epidemiological analysis. PLoS Med 2018;15(7):e1002623.

NHS Sustainable Development Unit. Anaesthetics and inhalers. 2020. Available from: https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/nhslongtermplan/carbon-reduction/anaesthetics-and-inhalers.aspx (accessed Aug. 5, 2020).

Wilkinson

AJK

Braggins

Steinbach

Smith

. Costs of switching to low global warming potential inhalers: an economic and carbon footprint analysis of NHS prescription data in England. BMJ Open. 2019;9(10): e28763.

Singleton

Lau

ETL

Nissen

. Waiter, there is a drug in my soup - using Leximancer^® to explore antecedents to pro-environmental behaviours in the hospital pharmacy workplace. Int J Pharm Pract 2018;26(4):341-50.

National Health Service. NHS long term plan (LTP). Available: https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/nhslongtermplan/nhs-long-term-plan-ltp.aspx (accessed Jul. 22, 2020).

Health Care without Harm. Mission and goals. Available: https://noharm-uscanada.org/content/us-canada/mission-and-goals (accessed Aug. 9, 2020).

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Patient decision aid inhalers for asthma. 2019. Available: https://bit.ly/inhalervids (accessed Jul. 22, 2020).

10.

Safer Pharma. Safer medicine for a safer world. Available: http://saferpharma.org/ (accessed Aug. 5, 2020).

11.

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Environmental impact report: medicines optimisation—implementing the NICE guideline on medicines optimisation (NG5). Available: https://www.nice.org.uk/Media/Default/About/what-we-do/Into-practice/resource-impact-assessment/Medicines-optimisation-sustainability-report.pdf (accessed Jul. 27, 2020).

12.

Desmond

. Health service planning and sustainable development: considering what, where and how care is delivered through a pro-environmental lens. Aust Health Rev 2017;42:140-5.

13.

Health Care without Harm. Available: https://noharm.org/ (accessed Jul. 20, 2020).