2024
Evaluating 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 ResearchMeSH KeywordsCarbonClimate ChangeDelivery of Health CareGlobal HealthHumansSocial ResponsibilitySustainable DevelopmentConceptsHealth-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
2023
Sustainable and Resilient Health Care in the Face of a Changing Climate
Sherman J, MacNeill A, Biddinger P, Ergun O, Salas R, Eckelman M. Sustainable and Resilient Health Care in the Face of a Changing Climate. Annual Review Of Public Health 2023, 44: 255-277. PMID: 36626833, DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-071421-051937.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
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 ResearchMeSH KeywordsDelivery of Health CareEnvironmental PollutionHealth FacilitiesHumansMandatory ReportingConceptsHealth carei-CLIMATE: a “clinical climate informatics” action framework to reduce environmental pollution from healthcare
Sittig DF, Sherman JD, Eckelman MJ, Draper A, Singh H. i-CLIMATE: a “clinical climate informatics” action framework to reduce environmental pollution from healthcare. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2022, 29: 2153-2160. PMID: 35997550, PMCID: PMC9667163, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocac137.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsClimate ChangeDelivery of Health CareEnvironmental PollutionHealth FacilitiesMedical Informatics
2021
Net zero healthcare: a call for clinician action
Sherman JD, McGain F, Lem M, Mortimer F, Jonas WB, MacNeill AJ. Net zero healthcare: a call for clinician action. The BMJ 2021, 374: n1323. PMID: 34544732, PMCID: PMC8450779, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.n1323.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsConservation of Natural ResourcesDelivery of Health CareHealth Services Needs and DemandHumansHealth care's response to climate change: a carbon footprint assessment of the NHS in England
Tennison I, Roschnik S, Ashby B, Boyd R, Hamilton I, Oreszczyn T, Owen A, Romanello M, Ruyssevelt P, Sherman JD, Smith AZP, Steele K, Watts N, Eckelman MJ. Health care's response to climate change: a carbon footprint assessment of the NHS in England. The Lancet Planetary Health 2021, 5: e84-e92. PMID: 33581070, PMCID: PMC7887664, DOI: 10.1016/s2542-5196(20)30271-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPlanetary health care: a framework for sustainable health systems
MacNeill AJ, McGain F, Sherman JD. Planetary health care: a framework for sustainable health systems. The Lancet Planetary Health 2021, 5: e66-e68. PMID: 33581064, DOI: 10.1016/s2542-5196(21)00005-x.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2020
Health Care Pollution And Public Health Damage In The United States: An Update
Eckelman MJ, Huang K, Lagasse R, Senay E, Dubrow R, Sherman JD. Health Care Pollution And Public Health Damage In The United States: An Update. Health Affairs 2020, 39: 2071-2079. PMID: 33284703, DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01247.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMedical, 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 statisticsCareUse of Disposable Perioperative Jackets and Surgical Site Infections
Thiel CL, Sherman JD, Hopf HW. Use of Disposable Perioperative Jackets and Surgical Site Infections. JAMA Surgery 2020, 155: 453-454. PMID: 32129807, DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2019.6374.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2019
The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate
Watts N, Amann M, Arnell N, Ayeb-Karlsson S, Belesova K, Boykoff M, Byass P, Cai W, Campbell-Lendrum D, Capstick S, Chambers J, Dalin C, Daly M, Dasandi N, Davies M, Drummond P, Dubrow R, Ebi KL, Eckelman M, Ekins P, Escobar LE, Fernandez Montoya L, Georgeson L, Graham H, Haggar P, Hamilton I, Hartinger S, Hess J, Kelman I, Kiesewetter G, Kjellstrom T, Kniveton D, Lemke B, Liu Y, Lott M, Lowe R, Sewe MO, Martinez-Urtaza J, Maslin M, McAllister L, McGushin A, Jankin Mikhaylov S, Milner J, Moradi-Lakeh M, Morrissey K, Murray K, Munzert S, Nilsson M, Neville T, Oreszczyn T, Owfi F, Pearman O, Pencheon D, Phung D, Pye S, Quinn R, Rabbaniha M, Robinson E, Rocklöv J, Semenza JC, Sherman J, Shumake-Guillemot J, Tabatabaei M, Taylor J, Trinanes J, Wilkinson P, Costello A, Gong P, Montgomery H. The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate. The Lancet 2019, 394: 1836-1878. PMID: 31733928, DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(19)32596-6.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2018
Life cycle environmental emissions and health damages from the Canadian healthcare system: An economic-environmental-epidemiological analysis
Eckelman MJ, Sherman JD, MacNeill AJ. Life cycle environmental emissions and health damages from the Canadian healthcare system: An economic-environmental-epidemiological analysis. PLOS Medicine 2018, 15: e1002623. PMID: 30063712, PMCID: PMC6067712, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002623.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2016
Environmental Impacts of the U.S. Health Care System and Effects on Public Health
Eckelman MJ, Sherman J. Environmental Impacts of the U.S. Health Care System and Effects on Public Health. PLOS ONE 2016, 11: e0157014. PMID: 27280706, PMCID: PMC4900601, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157014.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAir PollutantsDelivery of Health CareEnvironmentEnvironmental ExposureEnvironmental MonitoringHumansIndustrial WastePublic HealthRisk AssessmentUnited StatesConceptsLife cycle assessment modelingAir pollution emissionsGreenhouse gas emissionsPollution burdenIndustrial activitiesAssessment modelingCriteria air pollutantsStratospheric ozone depletionAcid rainEnvironmental impactsPollution-related diseasesGas emissionsPollution emissionsAir toxicsEnvironmental performancePollutionAir pollutants