Greening health care : how hospitals can heal the planet / Kathy Gerwig.

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]

xii, 264 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Launching a green revolution in health care -- The health implications of climate change -- The business case for total health -- Food for health -- Managing and minimizing hospital waste -- Green chemicals and the detoxing of health care -- Environmentally preferable purchasing: what we buy matters -- Greening the built health care environment -- Measuring and reporting: sustainability gets sophisticated -- Community benefit and the determinants of health.