Health Affairs January 8, 2025
Rutvij Merchant, Madeline Penn, Kartikeya Menon, Erik Blutinger

Editor’s Note

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure patient-centered, cost-efficient care under the umbrella of accountable care. Additional articles will be published throughout 2025. Readers are encouraged to review the Call for Submissions for this series. We are grateful to Arnold Ventures for their support of this work.

The US health care system generates as much as 9 percent of the country’s total greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse gas emissions linked to the sector have also risen by 6 percent from 2010 to 2018, exceeding one ton per capita, the highest among industrialized nations. Significantly, the US health...

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