How to Drive Sustainable Healthcare: Educate, Engage, and Empower
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Understand how healthcare impacts the environment and gain the skills to drive sustainable change within your healthcare setting.
Duration | 3 weeks |
Total fee | ₹2,949 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
How to Drive Sustainable Healthcare: Educate, Engage, and Empower
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- Though healthcare systems play a vital role in society, they also have a considerable environmental impact. As we face the climate crisis, we must identify ways to reduce this impact.
- On this three-week course, you'll discover how healthcare systems negatively affect the environment and what you can do in your healthcare setting to mitigate this.
- With this understanding, you'll gain skills to promote sustainability and improve the health of your patients and the planet.
- Healthcare consumes a considerable amount of energy, material, and water, and is one of the largest producers of waste and pollutants.
- On the course, you'll understand the impacts of health practices on ecosystems and how we can work as part of an interdisciplinary team to reduce these negative effects.
- Next, discover how the NHS in England accounts for 25% of public sector CO2 emissions and delve further into the causes of this, such as procurement, utilisation, and waste.
- You'll then gain practical knowledge to help you take steps in identifying sustainability opportunities, networking and communication, and QI methodology.
- Finally, you'll explore current innovative models and case studies, both nationally and internationally, to gain a global perspective on sustainable healthcare.
- Guided by the experts at University College London, you'll finish the course with the skills and knowledge to deliver sustainable solutions in your healthcare setting.
How to Drive Sustainable Healthcare: Educate, Engage, and Empower at FutureLearn Curriculum
How to Drive Sustainable Healthcare: Educate, Engage, and Empower
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Educate
Introduction
Climate Change: An existential crisis
The problem: How the climate crisis affects our health
The cause: Our contribution to the climate crisis
Case scenarios
Summary of week one
Engage
Welcome to week two
Mitigating the effects of healthcare. What are we doing?
Procurement and waste
The patient's carbon footprint journey
Myth and legends
Summary and close
Empower
Introduction to Week 3
A powerful voice
How to make a difference!
How to undertake a successful project and make a difference!
The future
Summary
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