On June 10th, NCSH partnered up with Yale School of Public Health in a webinar conference on the topic "Lessons from the Nordic sustainable health care experience".
Recordings of each session are now available for viewing with registration.
The conference was part of their three-part symposium, that provided an overview of the current state of health care sustainability accounting, and sought global lessons that can be adopted by the US health care delivery sector to guide mitigation and resilience strategies.
This third and last session reviewed the Nordic path toward sustainable health care delivery, including origins and drivers, innovation, and tracking progress. Content was drawn from Nordic hospitals, government agencies, and industry.
The Nordic region has a long tradition of sustainability leadership in the health care sector. Topics covered in this part included: (i) Sustainability holistically embedded in hospital operations, which includes architecture, supply chains resource use, waste management, and governance; (ii) Innovative health care solutions developed by local companies, such as digital health solutions, sustainable medical technologies, lower-emission health care programs, and circular economy; (iii) Linkages between hospital and urban infrastructure through services such as district heating, district cooling, public transportation; and (iv) Culture, politics and legislations that have driven the regional sustainability agenda; and (v) Sustainability reporting frameworks and performance review.
Full descriptions of each session, speakers, and topics are available at: https://ysph.yale.edu/climate/phes/sustainability-health-care-symposium/
