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Green Hospital Movement
Green Hospital MovementSometimes called the "healthy hospital movement," this is a worldwide effort of over 440 organizations in over 55 nations to "green" health care facilities and to ensure that medical care does not further contribute to diseases caused by environmental contaminants. Typical projects include stopping the manufacture and use of mercury-based thermometers (U.S.), eliminating hospital incinerators that emitted toxic dioxin, improving hospital food quality, green purchasing of materials, green building to save energy and water and eliminate volatile pollutants, and elimination of PVC in hospital equipment. The movement has been spearheaded by nurses, doctors, and concerned NGOs.Keywords sustainable health care systems, green health care, PVC, waste incineration, medical waste disposal, dioxin, environmental health, ecologically sustainable health care, sustainable health care, sustainable medicine, disease prevention, raising awareness, health literacy, health promotion, health care, medical facilities, clinics, emergency care, public health, green building, green purchasing, food ingredients, food safety, hazardous substances, persistent organic pollutants, volatile organic pollutants, body burden, biomonitoring, ecotoxicology, nutrition, mercury pollution, public health, epidemiology, workplace safety, food safety, product safety, toxicology, food web, dose, exposure, risk management, risk assessment, toxic pollution, pollution source, bioaccumulation, biomagnification, pesticides, fungicides, plasticizers, solvents, polychlorinated biphenyls, halogenated aryl hydrocarbons (HAH), endocrine disruptors, environmental estrogens, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), petroleum hydrocarbons, precautionary principle, environmental pharmaceuticals |
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