Linking Environmental Sustainability, Health, and Safety Data in Health Care: A Research Roadmap

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• Personal Author:
  Forst L ; Kaplan SB
• Description:
  Limited but growing evidence demonstrates that environmental sustainability in the health-care sector can improve worker and patient health and safety. Yet these connections are not appreciated or understood by decision makers in health-care organizations or oversight agencies. Several studies demonstrate improvements in quality of care, staff satisfaction, and work productivity related to environmental improvements in the health-care sector. A pilot study conducted by the authors found that already-collected data could be used to evaluate impacts of environmental sustainability initiatives on worker and patient health and safety, yet few hospitals do so. Future research should include a policy analysis of laws that could drive efforts to integrate these areas, elucidation of organizational models that promote sharing of environmental and health and safety data, and development of tools and methods to enable systematic linkage and evaluation of these data to expand the evidence base and improve the hospital environment. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environment Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Environmental And Occupational Health And Safety Environmental Factors Environmental Health Environmental Impacts Health Care Health Care Facilities Models Patient Safety Sustainability Work Environment Workers

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• ISSN:
  1048-2911
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant ; Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  189-209
• Volume:
  27
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20051528
• Citation:
  New Solut 2017 Aug; 27(2):189-209
• Contact Point Address:
  Susan B. Kaplan, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2121 W. Taylor Street, (MC 922), Chicago, IL 60612, USA
• Email:
  kaplans@uic.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• Performing Organization:
  University of Illinois at Chicago
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6c856613d1954155607524239aad5d95e61f0a263d522145c2cbc7c5a5e645110673bcab2309dbf74ad516052eff88fdbe2707b7b857e14941dd166a429d904f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/211434/cdc_211434_DS1.pdf
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