2024
Building a sustainable future in health care: collaboration and framework for meaningful life cycle assessment
Ip V, Sherman J, Eckelman M. Building a sustainable future in health care: collaboration and framework for meaningful life cycle assessment. Journal Canadien D'anesthésie 2024, 1-6. PMID: 39384714, DOI: 10.1007/s12630-024-02853-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEvaluating progress and accountability for achieving COP26 Health Programme international ambitions for sustainable, low-carbon, resilient health-care systems
Blom I, Rasheed F, Singh H, Eckelman M, Dhimal M, Hensher M, Guinto R, McGushin A, Ning X, Prabhakaran P, Romanello M, van Alphen D, Watts N, Yu J, Zavaleta-Cortijo C, MacNeill A, Sherman J. Evaluating progress and accountability for achieving COP26 Health Programme international ambitions for sustainable, low-carbon, resilient health-care systems. The Lancet Planetary Health 2024, 8: e778-e789. PMID: 39393379, DOI: 10.1016/s2542-5196(24)00206-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHealth-care systemInternational ambitionsPolicy makingUN Framework ConventionFramework ConventionTangible outcomesHealth programmesHealth careProcess indicatorsPublic monitoringClimate strategiesGlobal initiativesEvaluate progressScientific monitoringIndicator relevanceCOP26System contextAccountsPartiesClimate changeActual progressPolicyAmbitionsLow-carbonCountriesGuiding principles for the next generation of health-care sustainability metrics
Eckelman M, Weisz U, Pichler P, Sherman J, Weisz H. Guiding principles for the next generation of health-care sustainability metrics. The Lancet Planetary Health 2024, 8: e603-e609. PMID: 39122328, DOI: 10.1016/s2542-5196(24)00159-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHealth careHealth system performance indicatorsEffectiveness of health careHealth-care provisionPositive systemic changeHealth-care sectorHealth systemSustainability metricsPublic healthClimate crisisHealthGreenhouse gas emissionsTracking progressCareSystem changesSustainability goalsEnergy useSystem performance indicatorsCore missionMeasurement frameworkGas emissionsEntry pointSectorEnvironmental challengesPrivatisation
2022
Mandatory Reporting of Emissions to Achieve Net-Zero Health Care
Singh H, Eckelman M, Berwick D, Sherman J. Mandatory Reporting of Emissions to Achieve Net-Zero Health Care. New England Journal Of Medicine 2022, 387: 2469-2476. PMID: 36516087, DOI: 10.1056/nejmsb2210022.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHealth care
2020
Medical, nursing, and physician assistant student knowledge and attitudes toward climate change, pollution, and resource conservation in health care
Ryan EC, Dubrow R, Sherman JD. Medical, nursing, and physician assistant student knowledge and attitudes toward climate change, pollution, and resource conservation in health care. BMC Medical Education 2020, 20: 200. PMID: 32576175, PMCID: PMC7310528, DOI: 10.1186/s12909-020-02099-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPhysician assistant students' knowledgeExact testSignificant public health burdenPhysician assistant studentsPublic health burdenFisher's exact testHealth care sectorAssistant studentsDisease burdenCare sectorHealth burdenClinical practiceResponse ratePhysician assistantsPatient careClinical settingLack of timeHealth professional studentsLogistic regressionLack of educationHealth careHealth care materialsNursingDescriptive statisticsCare