Environmentally sustainable health care: the opportunities and challenges of life cycle assessments

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Personal View discusses life cycle assessments in health care, highlighting sustainability impacts on clinical practice.

Life cycle assessments quantify environmental sustainability in health care, directly linking clinical actions to climate change mitigation.
More than 120 countries have committed to developing sustainable health systems, showing a global shift towards greener policies.
The analysis provides a foundational understanding of life cycle assessments in the context of health care and its relevance today.
Sustainability is becoming a crucial criterion in clinical decisions, indicating a significant transformation in health care practices.

Rasmussen et al. (2025) studied this question.

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