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Sustainable Occupational Therapy

This Playbook is intended to do the following: a) Provide background information, resources, and considerations to guide more sustainable and climate-resilient occupational therapy. b) Highlight the contributions that occupational therapy can make in transitioning current healthcare systems towards high-quality, low-carbon, sustainable and climate-resilient care.

Playbook

Case-Based Module: Planetary Health for Family Medicine Residents and Teachers – Applying a planetary health lens to clinical encounters

Temerty Faculty of Medicine, DFCM, University of Toronto

Course

Planetary Health for Family Medicine Residents and Teachers

Temerty Faculty of Medicine, DFCM, University of Toronto

Course

Four Principles of Environmentally Sustainable Clinical Care

CASCADES

An infographic for planetary health in primary care featuring four principles for environmentally sustainable healthcare: avoid unncessary care, empowering patients, choose environmental alternatives, shift to prevention.

Infographic

Planetary Health for Primary Care

This primer is an introduction to planetary health in the primary care setting and is designed to highlight ways practitioners can integrate these principles into their clinical work. It is not intended to duplicate existing resources on other important topics such as political and personal actions or hospital-based solutions. It oers examples, practice tips and links to existing resources to educate, inspire and remove barriers to change, organized around the our principles. Readers may want to read it from start to finish or by sections.

Tool

Reducing healthcare waste by eliminating exam table paper in a primary care practice: a sustainable quality improvement initiative

This simple QI project demonstrates the feasibility of implementing a small change in a primary care clinic that can improve environmental sustainability with multiple co-benefits. If all family physicians in Canada eliminated exam table paper in their offices, it would result in savings of approximately 95 940 km of paper, 121 680 trees, $C8 400 600 and 3054 T CO2 emissions, equivalent to driving around the world 360 times.

Article

Planetary health lens for primary care: Considering environmental sustainability offers benefits to patients and to providers

Adopting a planetary health lens provides a new way to think about environmental sustainability in primary care. With many providers working together to incorporate the 4 principles of sustainable health care into our everyday work, we can help reduce the health sector’s environmental footprint with additional benefits for patients, providers, and the health care system.

Article

Reducing our Environmental Impact in Primary Care

This webinar features Ilona Hale, MD, exploring new ideas in environmentally sustainable clinical practice. It goes beyond basic measures like recycling and energy-efficient lighting, highlighting the connection between environmental sustainability and high-quality care, including patient-centred care, de-prescribing, and health promotion. The session explains how practicing high-quality, low-carbon care can improve patient outcomes, reduce healthcare system burden, decrease provider workload, and help address climate change. Ilona Hale is a family physician with the East Kootenay Division of Family Practice and an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia.

Webinar

Pathways to Climate Resilience in Primary Health Care

Pathway to Climate Resilience in Primary Health Care

This webinar presents a fireside chat hosted by CASCADES, the Indigenous Primary Health Care Council, and the Alliance for Healthier Communities. Panelists share insights on the role, responsibility, and capacity of the primary health care sector and health professionals in identifying and addressing climate change vulnerability and leading adaptation efforts. The discussion features Imara Rolston, Dakota Recollet, Selma Tobah, and Bev Taylor, and is moderated by Fiona Miller and Natasha Beaudin.

Webinar