A survey of environmental sustainability in Japanese dialysis facilities
- 25.02.2024
- Original article
Erschienen in:
- Verfasst von
- Kei Nagai
- Katherine Barraclough
- Nanae Matsuo
- Atsushi Ueda
- Tsutomu Kuno
- Kanji Shishido
- Yutaka Koda
- Erschienen in
- Clinical and Experimental Nephrology | Ausgabe 6/2024
Abstract
Background
Dialysis practice has a particularly high environmental impact, including responsible for carbon emissions and climate change. Insufficient research has been conducted on environmental sustainability activities in dialysis therapy in Japan.
Methods
We conducted an online Green Survey comprising 30 question items based on a previously conducted survey in Australia. Between August and September 2023, this was sent to members of the Japanese Association of Dialysis Physicians, including hospital and clinic physicians, working across 885 dialysis facilities in Japan.
Results
In total, 255 (29%) facilities responded to the survey. More than half of the facilities (n = 157; 61.6%) responded that they did not have a strategy, policy, or action plan for environmental sustainability. In four-fifths of the facilities (n = 208; 81.6%), no “green team” or committee had been formed to promote environmental protection. By contrast, most of the surveyed facilities had emergency strategies for natural disasters, such as covering for patient visits and staff commuting during extreme weather conditions (n = 169; 66.3%), water shortages (n = 159; 62.4%), and power outages (n = 188; 73.7%).
Conclusions
Following the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and Portugal, this is the fourth Green Survey to be conducted, and the first on environmental sustainability among kidney health-care providers in Japan. The results indicated that daily activities for environmental protection are still lacking at many facilities, even though the management of dialysis treatment during a natural disaster is well conducted.
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- Titel
- A survey of environmental sustainability in Japanese dialysis facilities
- Verfasst von
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Kei Nagai
Katherine Barraclough
Nanae Matsuo
Atsushi Ueda
Tsutomu Kuno
Kanji Shishido
Yutaka Koda
- Publikationsdatum
- 25.02.2024
- Verlag
- Springer Nature Singapore
- Erschienen in
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Clinical and Experimental Nephrology / Ausgabe 6/2024
Print ISSN: 1342-1751
Elektronische ISSN: 1437-7799 - DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10157-024-02463-0
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