Health care has a huge environmental footprint, which then harms health. This is a matter of ethics
- Written by Anthony Capon, Director, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
ShutterstockThe health impacts of environmental change are now squarely on the radar. Australia’s recent intense wildfires is one glaring example. Spillover of the virus causing the COVID-19 pandemic from animals to humans is another.
But less is known about the reverse: environmental harms from health care. This is what our study, the first...





