Exploration of social sustainability in healthcare supply chain

Hussain, Matloub; Ajmal, Mian M.; Gunasekaran, Angappa; Khan, Mehmood

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.08.157

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“…The only climate change risk reduction strategy that will not benefit the health care industry is risk acceptance. 29 In addition, recent findings suggest a number of climate change mitigation best practices to consider. Value-based care must include all stakeholders: suppliers, employees, patients/customers, and payers/government.…”

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“…30 Therefore, leadership should involve employees at all levels, creating new positions as needed to oversee sustainability initiatives. 29 Progress toward goals should be clearly communicated to the community at large to keep the focus a top priority and bolster reputational benefits. Health care institutions should take all governmental incentives available for environmental waste and energy reduction efforts, staying up to date on all environmental safety laws.…”

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Turning the tide: The shift to climate change mitigation

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Tsai

2019

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In the United States, a growing number of companies are taking progressive steps to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Already, more than half of all Fortune 100 companies have announced clean energy targets, signaling climate change risk reduction is becoming a top priority. Climate change is not without controversy, yet it is a real business concern among corporate executives and health care leaders alike. From fears stoked by devastating wildfires in California to a rising tide of financial hardships due to hurricane flooding in the Southeast, it seems no region is immune to Mother Nature's growing cost to business. This report addresses how health care leaders are approaching climate change initiatives across the country by examining research articles, key opinion leaders, and health care organizations on the bleeding edge of climate change reduction. In an already complex industry, health care leaders have a special responsibility to do no harm to the patients they serve and a financial responsibility to drive monetary returns for invested stakeholders. Significant cost savings, long-term risk reduction, and improved population health are a few of the benefits health care organizations around the country can gain from building a sound climate change mitigation strategy.

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Turning the tide: The shift to climate change mitigation

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2019

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“…Despite the above, the literature on supply chain management falls short regarding investigating practices within the healthcare sector (Alhammadi & Hussain, ). Although many healthcare organizations have recognized the importance of adopting supply chain management practices, the uniqueness of the healthcare supply chain makes an industrial approach inapplicable to the healthcare sector, which calls for an interdisciplinary focus on supply chain management issues in health services (de Vries & Huijsman, ; Hussain et al, ).…”

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“…This is also witnessed in healthcare, where the demand for effective healthcare services has resulted in a great shift toward more socially sustainable practices within and outside the healthcare supply chain (Aptel & Pourjalali, ; de Vries & Huijsman, ). As with other sectors, in most of the attempts to evaluate healthcare sustainability, attention is given to the environment and efficiency, whereas the social aspects are neglected (Capolongo et al, ; Hussain et al, and ).…”

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“…However, most of the previous research did not explore various motivators across healthcare supply chains in terms of relevance and priority (Khan, Hussain, et al, ). There is also a lack of a conceptual and structured framework for identifying and prioritizing motivators of social sustainability (Hussain et al, ). Thus, the objective of this paper is to develop a structured approach (framework) that can be used to identify social sustainability motivating practices that are most relevant to a healthcare supply chain; to organize the motivating practices into the standard categories of social sustainability motivators; and to prioritize the identified social sustainability motivating categories and their subcategories for effective social sustainability implementation. …”

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Exploration and assessment of the motivators of social sustainability in healthcare supply chains: Multistake holder's perspective

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Khan

Ajmal

2019

Sustainable Development

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The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for the identification, categorization, and prioritization of social sustainability motivators across four main stakeholders of healthcare supply chains. A survey tool is initially used for the identification of motivators of social sustainability that are relevant to the healthcare supply chain. The exploration phase identified 34 motivators that were grouped to introduce a hierarchal framework. Finally, an analytical hierarchy process (AHP) is utilized to prioritize the criteria and subcriteria of motivators of social sustainability. The results of this study identified five main categories (Organizational Practice, Media and Reputation, Excellence and Awards, Technology and Innovation, and Attitude) and 34 subcategories. The AHP results assigned the highest priority to Media and Reputation and Organizational Practice. The framework developed in this study provides healthcare professionals with a structured approach that will be helpful in the acceptance of social sustainability across the chain. The proposed approach can be adapted to the healthcare industry in different contexts, and the study findings can provide insights and guidelines for the effective adoption of sustainability, in general, and social sustainability across different supply chains, in particular. Most of the previous research did not explore the various motivators across healthcare supply chains in terms of relevance and priority. There is also a lack of conceptual and structured approaches for identifying and prioritizing the motivators of social sustainability.

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Sustainable Supply Chain Management Practices in Developing Economies

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Exploration of social sustainability in healthcare supply chain

Cited by 150 publications

References 52 publications

Turning the tide: The shift to climate change mitigation

Turning the tide: The shift to climate change mitigation

Exploration and assessment of the motivators of social sustainability in healthcare supply chains: Multistake holder's perspective

Sustainable Supply Chain Management Practices in Developing Economies

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