title: Psychological explanations and interventions for indifference to greening hospitals.
abstract: Attention has increasingly been given to "greening" the environment, that is, to engaging in environmentally responsible behavior. Applied to hospitals, greening is collective interdisciplinary organizational behavior that reduces environmental hazards and overconsumption. An environmental crisis in hospitals is described. A number of individual and group psychological phenomena are detailed to explain the current absence of widespread greening in hospitals. Social and environmental psychology concepts for behavior change are combined to provide a model consisting of hospital administration and staff interventions to green this setting. Successful examples of these interventions are provided.
authors.affiliation: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, School of Nursing, Box C-288, 4200 East 9th Avenue, Denver, USA.
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Topf
mesh_terms: D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D006126:Group Processes; D006272:Health Facility Environment; D006740:Hospital Administrators / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D017744:Medical Waste Disposal; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D017744:Medical Waste Disposal