CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION


Waiting room for gynaecology patients.


actions for better waste management, energy efficiency and staff awareness in specialized public health care. We intend to implement these principles in all our present and future hospital construction projects, such as Lighthouse Hospital that will open in February 2022, replacing an outdated building from the 1960s (see Fig 1).


Health technology is widely used in Finnish hospitals, health centres and in people’s homes, providing communication and alert systems or supporting use of pharmaceuticals and self-monitoring.


Waiting room for surgery patients.


With widening use of 5G technology, we can expect better quality in data transfer from ambulances to consultants or in diagnostic image analysis. Remote communication between homes and hospitals will become more efficient. Companies and academic world are working together to develop artificial intelligence (AI), and some experiments have already been carried out to implement AI in patient care. We expect that AI will effectively assist in monitoring people´s health and in decision-making and contributing more efficient use of


human resources when actual personal contact is needed. Due to demographic trends in Finland, we cannot expect the amount of personnel will increase at the same pace as the amount of patients in healthcare systems. Finland was one of the first countries


to publish a National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change in 2005. The first action plan was published in 2008, and recently a healthcare-specific action plan for adaptation has been prepared.8 In Nordic circumstances, climate


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