Toward Sustainable Transitions in Healthcare Systems
Toward Sustainable Transitions in Healthcare Systems

Author: Jacqueline Broerse

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-16

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1351867148

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Health systems have long been considered key determinants of well-being within modern societies, a valuable resource which have faced a series of reform initiatives throughout the past decades. These reforms have been used to manage the cost of development, measure the tenability of health systems in globalizing economies and promote the increasing importance of health problems related to lifestyle and living conditions, yet they have failed to provide a true resolution to the persistent economical and logistical problems facing modern-day health systems. This rich, interdisciplinary work explores the hypothesis that many of these problems cannot be adequately addressed without structural changes to our health systems, and examines the embedded features of our health systems that underlie contemporary challenges as well as how, and under what conditions, our health systems can be made more sustainable. Combining and building upon theoretical approaches from transition and innovation studies for analysing health system deficits, Toward Sustainable Transitions in Healthcare Systems raises fundamental questions about how new research, new needs and exogenous trends are transforming current health innovation systems. Providing an original and substantial analysis of the complex structural features of the health innovation system, this book will be of interest to students and practitioners of the politics of health, social epidemiology, medical sociology and those with an interest in transition theory.

Sustainability
Sustainability

Author: Rao Y. Surampalli

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-03-19

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13: 1119433894

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A comprehensive resource to sustainability and its application to the environmental, industrial, agricultural and food security sectors Sustainability fills a gap in the literature in order to provide an important guide to the fundamental knowledge and practical applications of sustainability in a wide variety of areas. The authors – noted experts who represent a number of sustainability fields – bring together in one comprehensive volume the broad range of topics including basic concepts, impact assessment, environmental and the socio-economic aspects of sustainability. In addition, the book covers applications of sustainability in environmental, industrial, agricultural and food security, as well as carbon cycle and infrastructural aspects. Sustainability addresses the challenges the global community is facing due to population growth, depletion of non-renewable resources of energy, environmental degradation, poverty, excessive generation of wastes and more. Throughout the book the authors discuss the economics, ecological, social, technological and systems perspectives of sustainability. This important resource: • Explores the fundamentals as well as the key concepts of sustainability; • Covers basic concepts, impact assessment, environmental and socio-economic aspects, applications of sustainability in environmental, industrial, agricultural and food security, carbon cycle and infrastructural aspects; • Argues the essentiality of sustainability in ensuring the propitious future of earth systems; and • Authored by experts from a range of various fields related to sustainability. Written for researchers and scientists, students and academics, Sustainability: Fundamentals and Applications is a comprehensive book that covers the basic knowledge of the topic combined with practical applications.

Transitions to Sustainable Development
Transitions to Sustainable Development

Author: John Grin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-05-26

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 1135151172

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Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined modernization processes. In recent years these concerns are transformed into a widely-shared sense of urgency, partly due to events such as the various pandemics threatening livestock, and increasing awareness of the risks and realities of climate change, and the energy and food crises. This sense of urgency includes an awareness that our entire social system is in need of fundamental transformation. But like the earlier transition between the 1750's and 1890's from a pre-modern to a modern industrial society, this second transition is also a contested one. Sustainable development is only one of many options. This book addresses the issue on how to understand the dynamics and governance of the second transition dynamics in order to ensure sustainable development. It will be necessary reading for students and scholars with an interest in sustainable development and long-term transformative change.

Sustainable Healthcare
Sustainable Healthcare

Author: Knut Schroeder

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-11-28

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1118342534

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Sustainable Healthcare sets out a vision for medical care of high quality, manageable cost and low impact on the planetary systems which sustain us. In tackling the major challenges of our age, such as resource depletion, loss of biodiversity and climate change, health services can play a central role, moving from being part of the problem to becoming part of the solution. Sustainable Healthcare explores questions such as: What is the relevance of sustainability in healthcare? How does climate change threaten human health? How can we create low carbon care pathways? How can healthcare organizations deal better with their waste? How can death and dying become more sustainable? How can we engage ourselves and others with this agenda? Written by an international team combining clinical, educational, practical and policy expertise in sustainability and health, this book provides a synopsis of our current predicaments, and explores some of the emerging solutions. Containing case studies and resources for further information and action, Sustainable Healthcare is a practical guide to making healthcare more sustainable for all healthcare professionals, managers and students. "Once in a while one comes across a book that makes a deep impact. Sustainable Healthcare is such a book and very timely in the context of modern healthcare and developing green policies.... The book is clear in ideas of critical thinking, scientific evidence and practical suggestions for transformative action.... An additional strength in this book are the summary key papers and reports including key points from the chapters. In addition, there is a comprehensive list of references in each chapter.... The authors cut through the jargon and challenge the rhetoric of both fear and denial.... The authors give examples of how we can engage with sustainability such as, diet and exercise, prescription management, contraception management and family planning and end of life care.... The book provides useful sources, references and key actions for individuals, healthcare organisations and policy making departments." —A review by Prof Davinder Sandhu, Postgraduate Dean, Health Education South West, Severn Deanery, UK

Systems Thinking and Sustainable Healthcare Delivery
Systems Thinking and Sustainable Healthcare Delivery

Author: Ben Y.F. Fong

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-27

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 1000850153

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The Sustainable Development Goal 3 seeks to ensure health and well-being for all at every stage of life. This book discusses how to strengthen our healthcare systems and ensure sustainable community healthcare delivery by using systems thinking, an approach to understanding complex interactions of individual system elements in nature. Financing and manpower planning are integral processes to achieve health for all in the world. Adopting the Framework for Action of the World Health Organization for Strengthening Health Systems to Improve Health Outcomes, this book reviews and discusses, illustrated by case examples, the building blocks of healthcare systems, namely financing, human resources, management strategies and leadership and governance in the context of accessibility, coverage, quality and safety of community health services to achieve selected targets in SDG 3 in the context of global health. This book will be of interest to those who are researching sustainable healthcare systems, as well as policymakers and healthcare professionals.

Organizing for Sustainable Healthcare
Organizing for Sustainable Healthcare

Author: Susan Albers Mohrman

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2012-07-30

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1781900329

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Health care is currently not sustainable. Health care systems in the developed world are encountering increased demand for high quality health care but facing societal resource limits. The volume explores the change capabilities and learning mechanisms that health care systems need in order to implement fundamental change to improve over time.

Transitions in Health Systems
Transitions in Health Systems

Author: Jacqueline E. W. Broerse

Publisher: Vu University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789086594641

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Nowadays, health care is confronted with a wide variety of problems: new emerging or re-emerging diseases, rising costs, increasingly complex management processes, and so on. Since the 1990s most nations have tried to deal with problems by reforming their health systems. However, many of these reforms did not succeed in realizing the desired gains in efficiency and equity. This book aims at exploring persistent problems in health systems and health system reform from an innovative perspective - the perspective of the new, emerging scientific field of system innovation and transition theory. This generates new and refreshing insights on how to innovate and strengthen health systems. In particular, strategies that could be labeled transition experiments - involving all relevant stakeholders exploring new constellations in niches - are described and analyzed.

Sustainable Person- Centered Healthcare Through Intelligent Systems
Sustainable Person- Centered Healthcare Through Intelligent Systems

Author: Dalia Kriksciuniene

Publisher: Independent Author

Published: 2023-07-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781805305002

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The collective monograph "Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Person-Centered Healthcare" establishes a dialog among the medical and intelligent system domains for igniting transition toward a sustainable and cost-effective health care, driven by advanced technologies. The Person-Centered Care (PCC) conceptual background of healthcare positions a person in the center of a healthcare system, instead of defining a patient as a set of diagnoses and treatment episodes. The PCC-based conceptual background triggers enhanced application of Artificial Intelligence (AI), as it dissolves the limits of processing traditional medical data records. The ambition of taking care of a person health by knowing life conditions, values, and expectations for nurturing own health adds new dimensions for making PCC operational. The book discusses ability of intelligent healthcare system to monitor person health and improve quality of life. The monograph consists of three parts. Part I discusses conceptual background of healthcare system, identifying major differences in required knowledge and linking to its sources while applying patient- or person- oriented frameworks of care. The extensive analysis and conceptualization of healthcare systems characterizes context for implementing AI approach for research and application of AI technologies. Chapter 1 analyzes theoretical backgrounds of health care, it positions the personcentered care among the theoretical concepts of health care, shaping lifetime relationships among people and the medical institutions. The PCC concept suggests technological innovations and changes in providing healthcare services due to new requirements for inter-professional collaboration, application of scenario-based simulations and gaming for training of professionals at the healthcare institutions and redesigning their processes. Chapter 2 defines the operational considerations of PCC and introduces the specific routines for its implementation based of the analysis of person narratives, negotiating and building healthcare plans, and linking to relevant documents influencing and characterizing person health. Chapter 3 provides design and evaluation considerations for Person-Centred Care Implementation. It covers organizational process design for its implementation, applying intelligent technologies for processing information emanating from the PCC operational routines. The measures, indicators, and methods for valuing health care and its effects are researched. Chapter 4 discusses the customization forPCCintervention in a healthcare domain of pharmacy. It introduces the concept of PCC within pharmaceutical care delivery, explores its role as a part of multidisciplinary health services delivery teams. The role of health literacy, e-pharmacy service, and tele-pharmacy for implementing PCC is explored. Part II provides research of efficiency evaluation, decision-making, and sustainability in person-centered health care. Chapter 5 researches concept and models of shared decision-making as a framework of PCC. It focuses on multi-criteria decision-making techniques in healthcare settings. The ethical and practical considerations of shared decision-making in PCC and sensitive data emanating from patient narratives creates specific conditions and barriers for its implementation technologies.