Sustainability & Health
"A vision for an environmentally sustainable health system is put forth, as being a health system that improves, maintains or restores health, while minimizing negative impacts on the environment and leveraging opportunities to restore and improve it, to the benefit of the health and well-being of current and future generations"
-World Health Organization (2017)
Environmentally Sustainable Health Systems: A Strategic Document
Online Resources
- World health statistics 2024: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals | WHOWHO's annual World Health Statistics reports present the most recent health statistics for the WHO Member States and each edition supersedes the previous one.
- Global Health Observatory | WHOExplore a world of health data through indicators or countries
- The 2023 Global Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health & Climate Change | The LancetThe 2023 Report tracks the relationship between health and climate change across five key domains and 47 indicators, providing the most up-to-date assessment of the links between health and climate change.
- Women, Children's, and Adolescents' Health | Countdown to 2030Countdown is a collaboration of academics from global, regional, country institutions, UN agencies and World Bank and civil society organizations, to track progress of life-saving interventions for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition
- Briefing notes on SDG global indicators related to children | UNICEFThe first note summarises the development and implementation of the SDG global indicator framework. Briefing notes 2-15 provide detailed information on child-related global SDG indicators for which UNICEF has been identified as custodian, co-custodian, or supporting agency for the purposes of global reporting.
- Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good health and well-being | Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)The Government of Canada has established 3 key SDG Ambition Statements to help frame efforts to support this goal. Linked to these ambitions are a selection of key indicators, and in some cases targets, based on current programming undertaken by the Government of Canada to support the health of Canadians.
- Goal 3 | United Nations Development Program (UNDP)Provides definition, statistics, and goal targets for each SDG, including Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being
- Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Our World in DataThe visualizations and data contained within present the global perspective on where the world stands today and how it has changed over time.
- Health, Nutrition and Population: Health SDGs | The World BankExplore indicators and data that monitor progress towards the health and nutrition goals and targets within the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development. These include SDG 2 — No hunger, SDG 3 — Good health and well–being, and SDG 6 — Clean water and sanitation.
- Green Health Care Report | Canadian Coalition for Green Health CareSee the ten trends in green health care compiled through the Green Hospital Scorecard (GHS) program, the great work that our dedicated Sustainability Champions are doing, and a variety of amazing projects
- Health Canada’s 2022-23 Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy Report | Health CanadaHealth Canada's 2022 to 2023 Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy describes the department's actions in support of achieving the following goals in the 2019 to 2022 Federal Sustainable Development Act (FSDS): Effective Action on Climate Change, Greening Government, Clean Drinking Water, Sustainable Food, and Safe and Healthy Communities
Featured Books: Connecting the Dots between Health and Environment
Creating a circular healthcare economy
Open Educational Resource (OER)
Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility
Open Access (OA)
Healthcare As a Universal Human Right
Open Access (OA)
Improving Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Open Access (OA)
Featured Periodicals: Further Sustainable Health Research
- Environmental Health PerspectivesWe publish high-quality original research, reviews and commentaries on all established and emerging disciplines that examine the relationship between the environment and human health.
- The Lancet: Public HealthThe Lancet Public Health is committed to tackling the most pressing issues across all aspects of public health. In particular, it has a strong commitment to using science to improve health equity and social justice. It takes a broad and inclusive approach to public health, and is interested in interdisciplinary research.
- SustainabilitySustainability is an international and cross-disciplinary, scholarly, open access journal of technical, environmental, cultural, economic and social sustainability of human beings, which provides an advanced forum for studies related to sustainability and sustainable development