Publications by authors named "I F Blom"

Article Synopsis
  • The COP26 Health Programme, launched at the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference, aims to create low-carbon and resilient health systems, with 83 countries committed to the initiative as of May 2024.
  • The analysis highlights significant issues in current monitoring practices, showing that many countries focus on process indicators that don't truly measure progress towards sustainable health-care systems.
  • There is a critical need for better, adaptable indicators that can effectively track health-care outcomes and contribute to climate strategies, ensuring that the COP26 Health Programme achieves its goals without misleading claims.
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Work to reduce environmental pollution from the health system is hampered by an absence of consensus on the definition of environmentally sustainable health care and the relevant measurement needed. This scoping review aims to encourage standardisation across sustainability efforts by examining how environmentally sustainable health care is defined and measured in current literature. We conducted a scoping review to identify candidate publications that included either a definition or description of environmentally sustainable health care or a measurement of the impact of health care on the environment.

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Background And Objectives: Dual amylin and calcitonin receptor agonists (DACRAs) are therapeutic candidates in the treatment of obesity with beneficial effects on weight loss superior to suppression of food intake. Hence, suggesting effects on energy expenditure by possibly targeting mitochondria in metabolically active tissue.

Methods: Male rats with HFD-induced obesity received a DACRA, KBP-336, every third day for 8 weeks.

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: Climate change is predicted to be our century's most significant health threat. In 2021, 46 countries committed to environmentally sustainable low carbon health care systems. Of those, 34 were from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

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