The Energy Burden and Environmental Impact of Health Services

Brown, Lawrence H.; Buettner, Petra G.; Canyon, Deon

doi:10.2105/ajph.2012.300776

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“…This is achieved through the implementation of reuse and recycling techniques, thus demonstrating the viability of these technologies [27]. In England and the United States, health-related greenhouse gas emissions account for 3% and 8% of total national emissions, respectively [28].…”

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Analysis of the Average Annual Consumption of Water in the Hospitals of Extremadura (Spain)

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Abstract:The aim of this paper is to quantity the annual average consumption of water in 13 public hospitals in Extremadura (Spain). An analytical study in order to reduce water demand was conducted from 2010 to 2014 in the above-mentioned hospitals. The study concluded that, in order to determine the average annual water consumption, a fixed ratio is not the appropriate tool. A parametric type related to the built surface area and/or number of beds by hospital should be used instead. The average annual consumption of cold water for human consumption ( The ratio between DHW and CWHC was 35.62% (5.53). The time period of greatest demand was between 12 p.m. and 6 p.m. Considering B as the number of hospital beds and S its built surface area, to calculate the average annual cold water for human consumption in a hospital, the equation 165B + 12,100 (m 3 ) or 1.568S + 2400 (m 3 ) should be used. Similarly, in terms of hot domestic water, the average annual consumption in m 3 corresponds to either 53.65B + 5170 (m 3 ) or 0.53S + 1400 (m 3 ).

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Analysis of the Average Annual Consumption of Water in the Hospitals of Extremadura (Spain)

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“…While the World Health Organization document “Health in the green economy” offers an excellent and multi‐referenced review of the win‐win options in environmental healthcare, this document is now a decade old, and a clinicians’ eye view would suggest that not a lot has happened to put flesh on the outcome strategies it encouraged.…”

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Dialysis and the environment: Seeking a more sustainable future

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2019

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“…The economic and maintenance costs of medical gas installations are also analysed. This type of research studies needs to be accomplished for the achievement of a sustainable healthcare model, given that the specific tools it provides are devoted to assessing a variety of design alternatives which will definitely improve general management in hospitals [26].…”

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Analytical Determination of Medical Gases Consumption and Their Impact on Hospital Sustainability

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Abstract:Medical gases are known to show a great environmental impact and also to consume relevant resources in terms of hospital management. The present work reports on a study performed between 2008 and 2016 in a target set of 12 Spanish hospitals with floor area and number of beds ranging 2314-23,300 m 2 and 20-194, respectively, for which the average annual consumption rates of oxygen, nitrogen, medicinal air, carbon dioxide and nitrogen protoxide were analysed. The annual consumption of medical gases in a hospital was proved to be correlated with the number of hospital discharges, the number of surgeries, the number of emergency interventions, the number of hospitalisations, the number of hospital beds, the useful floor area of the building and the number of workers. In particular, the annual consumption per hospital bed was computed as 350 m 3 for oxygen, 325 m 3 for medicinal air, 9 m 3 for nitrogen protoxide and 3 m 3 for carbon dioxide. It is shown that healthcare activity appears as an adequate variable to quantify and to monitor medical gases consumption in hospitals, to assess the size of their facilities as well as to optimise maintenance management.

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The Energy Burden and Environmental Impact of Health Services

Abstract: Although reducing health-related energy consumption and emissions alone will not resolve all of the problems of energy scarcity and climate change, it could make a meaningful contribution.

Cited by 51 publications

References 57 publications

Analysis of the Average Annual Consumption of Water in the Hospitals of Extremadura (Spain)

Analysis of the Average Annual Consumption of Water in the Hospitals of Extremadura (Spain)

Dialysis and the environment: Seeking a more sustainable future

Analytical Determination of Medical Gases Consumption and Their Impact on Hospital Sustainability

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