Carbon Emissions from Overuse of U.S. Health Care: Medical and Ethical Problems.

The United States health care industry is the second largest in the world, expending an estimated 479 million metric tons (MMT) of carbon dioxide per year, nearly 8 percent of the country's total emissions. The importance of carbon reduction in health care is slowly being accepted. However, efforts...

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Publicado en:Hastings Center Report Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 10 - 17
Autores principales: Thiel, Cassandra, Richie, Cristina
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jul2022
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