Eliminating Mercury in Health Care

Fact Sheets

• The Mercury Problem (pdf)
• Making Medicine Mercury-Free (pdf)
• Thermometer Fact Sheet (pdf)
• A New Era: The Elimination of Mercury Sphygmomanometers (pdf)
• Mercury in Dental Amalgam and Resin-Based Alternatives: A Comparative Health Risk Evaluation (pdf)

Mercury-Free Alternatives

• List of Mercury-Containing Items in Hospitals (pdf)
• Mercury-free Alternatives: Sustainable Hospitals Project

Sample Purchasing Policy

Sample Hospital Mercury-Free Purchasing Policy (pdf)

For additional information on eliminating mercury in the health care setting, see our Go Mercury Free page.

Mercury Thermometers and Your Family's Health

HCWH's brochure about the dangers of mercury fever thermometers is available in the following versions:

• English (pdf)
• Spanish (pdf)
• Portuguese (pdf)
• Haitian (pdf)
• Vietnamese (pdf)

Global Mercury Campaign

To protect the health of communities worldwide, Health Care Without Harm and the World Health Organization are co-leading a global partnership to achieve virtual elimination of mercury-based thermometers and sphygmomanometers over the next decade and their substitution with accurate, economically viable alternatives.

• Visit the Mercury Free Health Care website
• Toward the Tipping Point: WHO-HCWH Global Initiative to Substitute Mercury-Based Medical Devices in Health Care. A Two-Year Progress Report (pdf)
• The Global Movement for Mercury-Free Health Care  (pdf)