Abstract
Ecological Worldview among Health Care Professionals in Sweden
Highlights
Human actions is a threat to the ecosystems to maintain sustainable life conditions locally and in the long-term globally [1]
The New Environmental Paradigm (NEP)-score was significantly higher among specialist physician than residency physicians (p=0.006), and between nurses and residency physicians (p=0.001)
A pro-environmental attitude among healthcare professionals is warranted in order to green the health care sector, face the current environmental challenges and hinder future climate crisis
Summary
Human actions is a threat to the ecosystems to maintain sustainable life conditions locally and in the long-term globally [1]. The understanding and influence of collective behavior are crucial in order to achieve the goals in the Paris Agreement on Climate Change [2,3]. This collective behavior is built up of individuals whose attitude emerges from a complex interplay of personal traits, socioeconomic factors, education, political ideology, and cultural context [4,5]. The association has been established between underlying values and behavior [7] From this perspective it is important to quantitatively measure and interpret environmental attitudes. As these attitudes provide a driving mechanism for decision-making it needs to be addressed
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