Building a Sustainable Healthcare Model: A Cross-Country Analysis

Momete, Daniela Cristina

doi:10.3390/su8090836

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“…This can certainly help solving some of the aforementioned challenges in healthcare. In addition, it will facilitate sustainable development [5][6][7]. Healthcare sustainability aims at simultaneously optimizing the financial and social impacts of the health service, without compromising the health of our patients and our ability to provide healthcare in the future.…”

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Disease Diagnosis in Smart Healthcare: Innovation, Technologies and Applications

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Abstract:To promote sustainable development, the smart city implies a global vision that merges artificial intelligence, big data, decision making, information and communication technology (ICT), and the internet-of-things (IoT). The ageing issue is an aspect that researchers, companies and government should devote efforts in developing smart healthcare innovative technology and applications. In this paper, the topic of disease diagnosis in smart healthcare is reviewed. Typical emerging optimization algorithms and machine learning algorithms are summarized. Evolutionary optimization, stochastic optimization and combinatorial optimization are covered. Owning to the fact that there are plenty of applications in healthcare, four applications in the field of diseases diagnosis (which also list in the top 10 causes of global death in 2015), namely cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, and tuberculosis, are considered. In addition, challenges in the deployment of disease diagnosis in healthcare have been discussed.

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“…However, pursuing objectives that address the needs of people beyond the level of individual patient’s experience is crucial for improving the sustainability of healthcare systems. 39 Furthermore, a treatment plan may demonstrate positive effects within the limited context of the study evaluating it; however, it has to be able to provide a wide range of positive outcomes in order for it to be beneficial for patients on a larger scale. This includes outcomes reflected in psychosocial and economic measures.…”

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“…This includes outcomes reflected in psychosocial and economic measures. 39 , To achieve this, it is necessary to develop a systems thinking perspective, which entails keeping the entire healthcare system in mind during the development, implementation and evaluation of innovations aimed at improving healthcare. 40 People-centred integrated care should not be seen as the end goal, but as a continuous process striving to optimise the way the healthcare system addresses the needs of the patients, as well as all the other relevant stakeholders and society as a whole.…”

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Integrated healthcare models for rheumatoid arthritis: A descriptive systematic review

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Vrijhoef

2019

International Journal of Care Coordination

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Introduction: Integrated people-centred care is a modern approach for addressing healthcare issues related to demographic changes, increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, and restricted resources. By providing an overview of integrated care models for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, we aimed to offer insight into the strategies and interventions that are being used for designing and implementing integrated models of care for this patient group, and their outcomes. Methods: We conducted a systematic literature search of peer-reviewed literature available in English and published between 2013 and 2018, using three databases: Cochrane, PubMed and EMBASE. We analysed the publications based on the Framework on integrated people-centred health services and the Triple/Quadruple Aim framework. Results: We identified 1271 records. After screening, 50 articles met the criteria for inclusion in the review. Approaches for improving patient empowerment, engagement and experience of care were most prevalent in the identified care profiles. Similarly, frequently reported outcomes were related to improvements in patients' experience of care and their health status. Most of the studies we reviewed did not demonstrate notable improvements from the perspective of cost-effectiveness or benefits for the healthcare workforce. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that for rheumatoid arthritis, integrated care is in the early stages of development. Strategies focusing on patient outcomes and patient satisfaction were found to be prioritised. Future initiatives aiming to redesign rheumatology care should adopt systems thinking perspective to better address all of the building blocks of people-centred integrated care.

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“…Step 2: data normalization using utilities theory [29], given the fact that the data are different in units. Each factor was transposed into a utility, considering that three factors (FRT FRE and FED) require maximum condition, while other three (FED, FGE and FEI) require minimum condition:…”

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Measuring Renewable Energy Development in the Eastern Bloc of the European Union

Momete

2017

Energies

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This paper aims to investigate the energy development in terms of renewable energy in the Eastern Bloc European Union member states. Energy is a topic of planetary implications and the analysis of the development of renewable energy sources (RES) in parts of the world where the fossil fuels are scarce is of tremendous importance. In the first section, the paper concisely explores the energy landscape of the European Union (EU), revealing important concerns. The second section introduces an index of renewable energy development (IRED) which captures the complexity of the development of RES and is based on two components, each containing three factors built on efforts and outcomes in RES development. IRED is further applied on a cross-country analysis based on the Eastern Bloc of the EU member states for 2005-2015 interval, revealing the best and worst performers. The application of IRED might contribute to a better understanding of the needed efforts required by different countries in their quest towards energy security, efficient energy use and emissions control. The findings of this paper might conduct to the identification of the best practices which could be spread throughout EU and might contribute to a more rigorous development of policymaking in the energy area.

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Building a Sustainable Healthcare Model: A Cross-Country Analysis

Cited by 18 publications

References 8 publications

Disease Diagnosis in Smart Healthcare: Innovation, Technologies and Applications

Disease Diagnosis in Smart Healthcare: Innovation, Technologies and Applications

Integrated healthcare models for rheumatoid arthritis: A descriptive systematic review

Measuring Renewable Energy Development in the Eastern Bloc of the European Union

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