This playbook contains background information, resources, and environmental considerations to guide healthcare clinicians, teams and institutions to improve environmental sustainability of pharmacies in Canadian healthcare institutions. It is intended for Canadian healthcare providers and administrators working in pharmacies of bed-based healthcare settings that are providing patient care, contributing to institutional policies, and making institutional changes. While the focus of this playbook centers around hospital pharmacies given the available evidence, the information is applicable to pharmacies in other bed-based facilities, including: long-term care facilities rehabilitation centres palliative care units
This playbook offers practical guidance and considerations for integrating social and nature prescribing into healthcare practices, fostering community partnerships, promoting high-impact programs, and better understanding the potential for environmental co-benefits of these programs. It is intended for health care providers, program administrators, link workers, researchers, educators, and anyone else interested in better understanding the environmental co-benefits of social and nature prescribing. Developed in collaboration with the Canadian Institute for Social Prescribing (CISP), a national hub anchored by the Canadian Red Cross, this playbook builds on a literature review and expert guidance to connect healthcare, social services, and community supports for improved health and well-being. The playbook aims to: Provide background information, resources, and considerations for guiding social and nature prescribing practices. Highlight how nature prescribing, as a variation of social prescribing, can generate significant environmental co-benefits.
The Playbook provides background information, resources, and considerations for integrating vital Indigenous-led perspectives, values, and wisdom into the guidance for climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience of pharmacy practice. These considerations have been compiled from a review of key literature, Indigenous-led health advocacy movements, and the perspectives, values and experiences of pharmacy and other health professionals with Indigenous ancestry. This Playbook is intended for Canadian pharmacy professionals including pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy assistants, educators and trainees. Foundational considerations for pharmacy practice can be found in the “Climate Resilient, Low Carbon, Sustainable Pharmacy” Playbook.
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.
This playbook provides information and resources that are relevant to many roles in the health system, including laboratory technicians, clinicians, facilities, health leaders, sustainability and energy managers, etc. The recommendations in this report are geared towards medical laboratories (including anatomical pathology) but the principles of sustainability interlaced throughout can apply to many departments in a health-care setting, or other laboratories such as research or educational. This playbook was adapted from a Greening the Lab Opportunity Investigation conducted by the Environmental Sustainability team at British Columbia’s Interior Health Authority.
This playbook is intended for all medical imaging professionals and teams including radiologists, technologists, healthcare executives, facility operations teams, allied healthcare providers, patients, and industry partners.
This Playbook comprises a summary of information relevant to AP, with added actions specific for AP labs to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other harmful environmental effects. The target audience for this Playbook are anatomical pathologists, and anatomical pathology laboratory technical managers and supervisors.
This playbook is intended for all kidney health professionals and advocates. Patients, technicians, nurses, dieticians, pharmacists, administrators, nephrologists and industry partners all have important roles to play in providing quality kidney care while mitigating the impact of climate change and fostering responsible resource use. The playbook intends to: 1.Inform of the reciprocal relationship between climate change and kidney health. 2.Provide knowledge and tools to guide implementation and practice of environmentally sustainable kidney care (ESKC). 3.Inspire action using examples from Canadian settings and practitioners of ESKC.
This Playbook was developed as an initiative by leaders in the field working to advance sustainability in regional anesthesia, with support from CASCADES.
