ReviewGlobal health action2012
Climate change and eHealth: a promising strategy for health sector mitigation and adaptation.
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22 citing papers in PubMed.
- Learning as a missing component of digital health, environment and climate change.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Aligning With the Goals of the Planetary Health Concept Regarding Ecological Sustainability and Digital Health: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
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- Game theoretic research on strategies for medical carbon neutrality stakeholders under time delay effects.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Environmental impact of the enhanced recovery pathway in colorectal surgery: A simulation study.Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland · 2025Article
- Large language models and generative AI in telehealth: a responsible use lens.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2024Review
- Health systems response to climate change adaptation: a scoping review of global evidence.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Online physiotherapy for people with axial spondyloarthritis: quantitative and qualitative data from a cohort study.Rheumatology international · 2024Article
- Telemedicine and the environment: life cycle environmental emissions from in-person and virtual clinic visits.NPJ digital medicine · 2023Article
- Climate adaptive hospital: A systematic review of determinants and actions.Journal of environmental health science & engineering · 2022Review
- Assessing the carbon footprint of digital health interventions: a scoping review.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2022Article
- Digital health for climate change mitigation and response: a scoping review.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2022Article
- [Sustainability in ophthalmology : Adaptation to the climate crisis and mitigation].Die Ophthalmologie · 2022Review
- Virtual care: a 'Zoombie' apocalypse?Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2020Article
- Health system plan for implementation of Paris agreement on climate change (COP 21): a qualitative study in Iran.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Environmental and Patient Impact of Applying a Point-of-Care Ultrasound Model in Primary Care: Rural vs. Urban Centres.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- A Practical Guide for Physicians and Health Care Workers to Reduce Their Carbon Footprint in Daily Clinical Work.The Permanente journal · 2018Article
- Green Hospital and Climate Change: Their Interrelationship and the Way Forward.Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR · 2015Review
- Climate change, human health, and epidemiological transition.Preventive medicine · 2015Review
- Health care facilities resilient to climate change impacts.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2014Article
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Abstract
Climate change is one of today's most pressing global issues. Policies to guide mitigation and adaptation are needed to avoid the devastating impacts of climate change. The health sector is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in developed countries, and its climate impact in low-income countries is growing steadily. This paper reviews and discusses the literature regarding health sector mitigation potential, known and hypothetical co-benefits, and the potential of health information technology, such as eHealth, in climate change mitigation and adaptation. The promising role of eHealth as an adaptation strategy to reduce societal vulnerability to climate change, and the link's between mitigation and adaptation, are also discussed. The topic of environmental eHealth has gained little attention to date, despite its potential to contribute to more sustainable and green health care. A growing number of local and global initiatives on 'green information and communication technology (ICT)' are now mentioning eHealth as a promising technology with the potential to reduce emission rates from ICT use. However, the embracing of eHealth is slow because of limitations in technological infrastructure, capacity and political will. Further research on potential emissions reductions and co-benefits with green ICT, in terms of health outcomes and economic effectiveness, would be valuable to guide development and implementation of eHealth in health sector mitigation and adaptation policies.
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