Fit for the Future? A New Approach in the Debate about What Makes Healthcare Systems Really Sustainable
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in: Sustainability, Jahrgang 7, Nr. 1, 01.2015, S. 294-312.
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T1 - Fit for the Future? A New Approach in the Debate about What Makes Healthcare Systems Really Sustainable
AU - Fischer, Matthias
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2014 by the authors.
PY - 2015/1
Y1 - 2015/1
N2 - As healthcare systems face enormous challenges, sustainability is seen as a crucial requirement for making them fit for the future. However, there is no consensus with regardto either the definition of the term or the factors that characterize a "sustainable healthcare system". Therefore, the aim of this article is twofold. First, it gives examples of the existing literature about sustainable healthcare systems and analyzes this literature with regard to its understanding of sustainability and the strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches. The article then identifies crucial factors for sustainable healthcare systems, and the result, a conceptual framework consisting of five distinct and interacting factors, can be seen as a starting point for further research.
AB - As healthcare systems face enormous challenges, sustainability is seen as a crucial requirement for making them fit for the future. However, there is no consensus with regardto either the definition of the term or the factors that characterize a "sustainable healthcare system". Therefore, the aim of this article is twofold. First, it gives examples of the existing literature about sustainable healthcare systems and analyzes this literature with regard to its understanding of sustainability and the strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches. The article then identifies crucial factors for sustainable healthcare systems, and the result, a conceptual framework consisting of five distinct and interacting factors, can be seen as a starting point for further research.
KW - Sustainability Science
KW - Health sciences
KW - Politics
KW - Conceptual framework
KW - Definition
KW - Sustainable healthcare systems
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84922445203&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/su7010294
DO - 10.3390/su7010294
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 7
SP - 294
EP - 312
JO - Sustainability
JF - Sustainability
SN - 2071-1050
IS - 1
ER -