Towards a Sustainable Health System : A Call to Action

Towards a sustainable health system: A call to action' speaks to the challenge that the climate crisis poses for health systems. The scale of the accelerating crisis will require that health systems adapt in response, but also that they become visible champions for change, mitigating the environmental harms of their operation and mobilizing their social networks and leadership potential to build community resilience and transformative capacity. The authors give principal attention to issues of environmental sustainability but also review the linked challenges of social and economic sustainability, given the imperatives of environmental and social justice and the need for a revitalized economic vision to support livable futures. The authors’ aim is to accelerate ambition in Canada, where coordinated effort and national leadership have been lacking. They close with recommendations to achieve a net zero health system in Canada by or before 2050