Health challenges in the 21st century have become increasingly complex and global. The
recent COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the many problems faced by health care …

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 …

Sustainable health, a multisectoral area for study, research, and practice towards improving
health and well-being for all while staying within planetary boundaries, is a prerequisite to …

Most research on health systems examines contemporary problems within one, or at most a
few, countries. Breaking with this tradition, we present a series of case studies in a book …

This editorial for the special issue of FutureS is not intended to provide a comprehensive,
analytical overview of the future of health care; rather, it collects the perspectives on which …

Purpose–This chapter frames the topic of organizing for sustainable health care in terms of
the environmental trends that have rendered current health care approaches unsustainable …

INTRODUCTION In 1948, the WHO was created under the aegis of the United Nations (UN)
as the agency to address global health concerns. Health was defined as a 'state of complete …

Towards a sustainable health system: A call to action'speaks to the challenge that the
climate crisis poses for health systems. The scale of the accelerating crisis will require that …

Traditional healthcare services have demonstrated structural shortcomings in the delivery of
patient care and enforced numerous elements of integration in the delivery of healthcare …

Our traditional medical mindset and healthcare culture are being severely challenged. In the
face of novel infectious diseases, such as Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), along with rising …