英国生物银行环境可持续性的驱动因素和约束因素:平衡资源效率和未来价值
Gabrielle Samuel1, Jessica M Sims2
1Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London, London, UK. gabrielle.samuel@kcl.ac.uk.
BMC medical ethics
|June 1, 2023
概括
英国生物银行优先考虑金融而不是环境可持续性,导致样本利用不足和目标冲突. 需要向协作生物银行转变,以使样本使用与可持续性和捐助者的愿望保持一致.
科学领域:
- 医疗保健研究 医疗保健研究
- 环境科学 环境科学
- 这是生物银行.
背景情况:
- 生物库对于医疗保健研究至关重要,提供各种样本和数据.
- 然而,生物银行对环境产生了重大影响,包括资源枯竭和化学品的使用.
- 了解英国生物银行业是评估其环境足迹的第一步.
研究的目的:
- 探索英国生物银行的样本存储基础设施和环境可持续性实践.
- 评估英国生物银行业环境可持续性的现状.
主要方法:
- 一种混合方法的方法,结合了定量和定性数据.
- 通过在线平台收集的信息以及与英国生物银行进行的八次深入采访.
主要成果:
- 在生物银行中,环境可持续性往往是次要的,而不是金融可持续性.
- 样本的不足利用,避免集中化,以及可访问性问题与可持续发展目标相冲突.
- 竞争激烈的,个人主义的生物银行文化和对样本的强烈价值依附,掩盖了可持续性问题.
结论:
- 从竞争到协作生物银行文化的转变是必不可少的.
- 优先考虑患者健康,并将样本使用 ('智能附件') 与环境目标和捐赠者的愿望保持一致至关重要.
- 将环境可持续性纳入生物银行实践是长期可行性的必要条件.
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