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How green is the NHS?
| Date: | 22/06/2006 |
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| Classification: | Health |
| Document type: | Speeches and articles |
| Download: |  Greening_the_NHS_by_AC.pdf - 45 KB |
| Summary: |  An article for The Guardian by Anna Coote.Climate change brings greater long-term risks to health than anything else we can imagine. On a global scale, it is a bigger hazard than AIDS, obesity and bird ‘flu. It is a pity to have to resort to this kind of competitive scaremongering, but the problem is so overpoweringly serious that ways must be found to heave it up the health policy agenda. |