Human health promotion and environmental protection are values that sometimes complement each other, but sometimes conflict in BCU management.

Restructuring health care waste management involves making existing waste audit data transparent.

The health sector has obligations and ample opportunities to protect health by decreasing waste and motivating more system-wide sustainable clinical practices.

Communities are not affected equally by the volume and location of US health care waste.

Historical perspective on how some sites and means of professional caregiving became high or low status helps us understand trends in poor care continuity in US health care.

Psychiatric aides and technicians are part of direct care workforces in inpatient units who are subject to high rates of violence but earn far less than higher-status clinicians.

Reasons to actively promote the interests of health workers earning low wages are numerous and urgent.

All health workers should be included in planning personal protective equipment access and infectious disease containment operations.

Inequitable care and outcomes experienced by persons with mental illness have long been exacerbated by stigma expressed by clinicians.

Underrecognition and lack of awareness about how to help patients with painful menstruation constitute injustice and a health care harm.