Assessing greenhouse gas emissions in a primary care subdistrict in Cederberg, South Africa
Climate change poses a significant threat to global health, risking decades of progress in public health gains and threatening the ability of developing countries to achieve universal health care goals. In response, healthcare systems worldwide are beginning to assess and mitigate their environmenta...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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22 October 2025
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BMC health services research
Year: 2025, Volume: 25, Pages: 1-10 |
| ISSN: | 1472-6963 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12913-025-13489-9 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-025-13489-9
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| Author Notes: | Patricia Nayna Schwerdtle, Claudia Quitmann, Alina Herrmann, Sanskrithi Thakur, Claire Adams, Kiran Jobanputra and Robert Mash |
| Summary: | Climate change poses a significant threat to global health, risking decades of progress in public health gains and threatening the ability of developing countries to achieve universal health care goals. In response, healthcare systems worldwide are beginning to assess and mitigate their environmental impacts, ideally alongside building their resilience to climate change. Most of this work has centred on high-emitting health systems in high-income countries, yet a large number of developing countries are also committed to reducing the environmental impact of health care and in doing so pursuing a clean development trajectory. This study evaluates the emissions of a primary healthcare network in the Cederberg subdistrict, South Africa, using a standardized greenhouse gas accounting tool. The findings aim to inform mitigation strategies for Cederberg and may offer insights to other resource-constrained settings. |
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| Item Description: | Veröffentlicht: 22. Oktober 2025 Gesehen am 04.12.2025 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1472-6963 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12913-025-13489-9 |