Circular Medicine – Being Mindful of Resources and Waste Recycling in Healthcare Systems

In the light of the COP27 Climate Change Conference, the concept of the circular economy has come to the fore with promotion of reuse and recycling of appliances and materials from electronics to clothes. This concept has not been widely taken up by healthcare systems. In this perspective article, w...

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Autores principales: Syms, Richard, Taylor-Robinson, Simon D, Trovato, Guglielmo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9961144/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36852329
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/RMHP.S396667
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description In the light of the COP27 Climate Change Conference, the concept of the circular economy has come to the fore with promotion of reuse and recycling of appliances and materials from electronics to clothes. This concept has not been widely taken up by healthcare systems. In this perspective article, we discuss the idea of the circular economy and how, by extension, the concept of “circular medicine” with optimised hospital and medical clinic waste recycling might be promoted in the context of better stewardship of resources in healthcare management.
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spelling pubmed-99611442023-02-26 Circular Medicine – Being Mindful of Resources and Waste Recycling in Healthcare Systems Syms, Richard Taylor-Robinson, Simon D Trovato, Guglielmo Risk Manag Healthc Policy Commentary In the light of the COP27 Climate Change Conference, the concept of the circular economy has come to the fore with promotion of reuse and recycling of appliances and materials from electronics to clothes. This concept has not been widely taken up by healthcare systems. In this perspective article, we discuss the idea of the circular economy and how, by extension, the concept of “circular medicine” with optimised hospital and medical clinic waste recycling might be promoted in the context of better stewardship of resources in healthcare management. Dove 2023-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9961144/ /pubmed/36852329 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/RMHP.S396667 Text en © 2023 Syms et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This work is published by Dove Medical Press Limited, and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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