Green Health Care
A Model of Improved Environmental and Human Health
Registration Opens for “Leadership In Green Health Care” Course
Online Course Educates Health Care Professionals in new discipline of “Sustainable Medicine.” Read the press release >>
A leadership model for health care that is good for people and the environment:
The Teleosis Institute provides training to support emerging Green Health Care Leaders.
The Teleosis Institute promotes a new model of health care based on the understanding that human and environmental health are inextricably linked. In this model, health professionals serve as environmental educators, advocates and stewards. This model is called Green Health Care.
The Teleosis vision of Green Health Care takes us beyond the Hippocratic oath, calling upon health professionals to “do more good.” We believe that health professionals—by focusing more on prevention, precaution, education, and wellness—can significantly contribute to improving the health of their patients, community, and the environment.
In Green Health Care, toxic-free buildings, literacy around local environmental health issues, and the use of safe, effective, precaution-based medicine are all intrinsic parts of a new system of health care that is good for people and the environment.
Several notable “green” efforts exist today in the health care field focused on addressing the negative environmental impacts of hospital resource use and disposal. These important hospital-based initiatives promote the use of safer medical supplies and materials, and the reduction of toxic medical waste. What has been overlooked is the important role of primary health care practitioners operating in small- to medium-sized clinics. The Teleosis Institute’s Green Health Care Program is partnering with this influential and important group to transform health care as we know it.
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Why Green Health Care?
Human health is compromised daily by ongoing environmental degradation
Health care must be part of the solution
Green Health Care improves the health of people and the environment
Green Health Care is medicine for our future
Green Health Care Professionals
Save resources and money
Improve the health and morale of employees and patients in the workplace
Reduce their impact on the environment
Are recognized as environmental leaders
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