Health Care Without Harm seeks to transform the health sector worldwide, without compromising patient safety or care, so it becomes ecologically sustainable and a leading advocate for environmental health and justice. Health Care Without Harm’s Healthy Food in Health Care program harnesses the purchasing power, expertise, and voice of the health care sector to advance the development of a sustainable food system. Their advocacy campaigns bring the sector’s clout and perspective to bear on critical food systems issues such as the overuse and misuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture, aligning dietary guidelines with health and sustainability principles, harmful chemicals in our food systems, the climate-food connection, and opportunities for health care to make investments in public health. Partnering with hospitals across the country the Healthy Food in Health Care program developed innovative models to source and serve foods that are produced, processed, and transported in ways that are protective of public and environmental health. Given the proven success and feasibility of these efforts, they are able to scale these changes to the thousands of health care facilities in their network, leveraging the purchasing power of hospitals to signal the market to increase sustainable and equitable production practices as well as food system transparency.

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Health Care Without Harm

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