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Library Resource Guides: #2 Climate change & health

About this guide

Climate change is well-recognised to be having an increasingly significant impact human health & wellbeing, as well as on the environment & development. The Library has put together a number of online resources on this topic, to help you get involved in solutions as well as understanding how climate change may impact your practice.

Relevant government & industry policies & statements

Climate and the nursing profession: position statement (Australian College of Nursing, 2017)
*Under review*
Position statement: Nurses, climate change and health (International Council of Nurses, 2018)
A comprehensive environmental health agenda for hospitals and health systems around the world (Global Green & Healthy Hospitals, 2011)

Read the latest on health & climate change from The Conversation RSS feed

Making a difference in your workplace: resources

"Nurses and their role in greening our hospitals" by Ayelet Dahan
Publication Date: 28 May 2019
Article from Nursing Times

Relevant academic articles & reports (open-access)

"Addressing the carbon footprint of health organisations: eight lessons for implementation" by Charlesworth, Stewart & Sainsbury
Publication Date: 2018
Article from Public Health Research & Practice (Vol. 28, No. 4)
"Climate change and human health: the role of nurses in confronting the issue" by Sayre, Rhazi, Carpenter & Hughes
Publication Date: 2010
Abstract of article from Nursing Administration Quarterly (Vol. 34. No. 4)
"Mandate for the nursing profession to address climate change through nursing education" by Leffers, Levy, Nicholas & Sweeney
Publication Date: 2017
Article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship (Vol. 49, No. 6)
"Becoming a climate-friendly hospital: Implications for nursing practice within the Australian healthcare context" by Teresa M. A. Lewis
Publication Date: 2018
PhD thesis from University of Wollongong (June 2018). A related conference paper from 2012 is also available online.

Books available from the ANMF (Vic Branch) Library

Climate change adaptation for health and social services by Rae Walker & Wendy Mason (Eds.)
Call Number: MAIN 616.98 WAL 2015
Climate change and public health by Barry Levy & Jonathan Patz (Eds.)
Call Number: 362.10994 LEV 2015

Podcasts

Nick Watts (Director of the The Global Climate & Health Alliance) explains the links between climate & health at the 2014 UN Climate Summit
Podcast from The Conversation (25 September 2014)
Jane Currie on educating nurses on climate change & mass casualty events at at the 2018 NSWNMA Environmental Health seminar
Podcast from The Shift by NSWNMA (29 May 2019)
Carol Behne from the Climate & Health Alliance speaks about the Global Green & Healthy Hospitals initiative
Podcast from The Shift by NSWNMA (5 April 2017)