How Healthcare Systems Negatively Impact Environmental Health? The Need for Institutional Commitment to Reduce the Ecological Footprint of Medical Services

Prisco Piscitelli^{1

2

3}, Stela Karaj⁴, Alessandro Miani¹, Tassos C Kyriakides⁵, Enrico Greco^{1

6}, Elena Colicino⁷, Antonio Bray³, Fernando Simón⁸, Vasilis Vasiliou⁹, Andrea A Baccarelli¹⁰

Affiliations

¹ Italian Society of Environmental Medicine (SIMA), Viale di Porta Vercellina, 9, 20123 Milan, Italy.
² Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy.
³ Local Health Authority ASL Le, 73100 Lecce, Italy.
⁴ Faculty of Social Sciences, European University of Tirana, 1000 Tirana, Albania.
⁵ Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
⁶ Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Trieste, 34127 Trieste, Italy.
⁷ Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Ichan School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY 10029, USA.
⁸ Spanish Ministry of Health, 20014 Madrid, Spain.
⁹ Department of Environmental Health, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
¹⁰ Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Editorial

Prisco Piscitelli et al. Epidemiologia (Basel). 2023.

. 2023 Nov 22;4(4):521-524.

doi: 10.3390/epidemiologia4040043.

¹ Italian Society of Environmental Medicine (SIMA), Viale di Porta Vercellina, 9, 20123 Milan, Italy.
² Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy.
³ Local Health Authority ASL Le, 73100 Lecce, Italy.
⁴ Faculty of Social Sciences, European University of Tirana, 1000 Tirana, Albania.
⁵ Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
⁶ Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Trieste, 34127 Trieste, Italy.
⁷ Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Ichan School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY 10029, USA.
⁸ Spanish Ministry of Health, 20014 Madrid, Spain.
⁹ Department of Environmental Health, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
¹⁰ Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Abstract

The global healthcare industry plays a crucial role in preserving human health and well-being [...].

All the authors declare no conflict of interest related to this paper.

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