Reimagining health services and policy research: Embedding environmental sustainability into our research priorities and practice
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Date
2021-05
Authors
Reed, Anna Cooper
Toccalino, Danielle
Sue-Chue-Lam, Colin
Cheung, Anson
Dali, Nada
Kandasamy, Sujane
Kim, Hyejun
Lee, Kirsten
McDermott, Emma
Mychaltchouk, Lydia
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Elsevier
Abstract
The health impacts of the climate crisis demand that health systems adapt their practices and mitigate their carbon emissions. Health services and policy research (HSPR) is crucial for the transformation of these systems. We report on an initiative by HSPR trainees from across Canada to ideate on health systems transformation towards environmental sustainability. We outline how environmental sustainability must be embedded into HSPR. We suggest that this process must include a justice-based approach and that HSPR curricula, conduct, and content must consider the health of people and the planet. Furthermore, these endeavours must be supported by funding opportunities and granting organizations. We then offer ways forward for trainees, and those who support them, to ensure environmental sustainability is embedded within HSPR.
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sustainable healthcare, trainee leadership, planetary health, environment, sustainability