A DATABASE OF HEALTHCARE'S ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

HealthcareLCA

Database summary

More than 7,000 environmental impact values, 3,000 products and activities, 1,000 authors, 300 data sources, 190 countries, 20 years.

From individual pharmaceuticals to entire health systems, researchers around the world are working hard to assess the environmental impacts of different aspects of healthcare.

HealthcareLCA serves as an up-to-date repository for this work, bringing together new and existing assessments published in peer reviewed publications into one centralised and publicly accessible database.

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